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*Catoplatus carthusianus (Goeze) 



Cimex carthusianus Goeze 1778, p. 268. — Fourcroy 1785, p. 212 [Eryn- 



gium\ 

 Tingis eryngii Latrielle 1804, p. 253.— Vallot 1829, pp. 99, 113 



[Eryngium campestre]. 

 Tingis melanocephala Panzer 1806, heft 100, tab. 21 [Germany]. — 



Herrich-Schaeffer 1835, p. 58. 

 Monanthia melanocephala: Le Peletier and Serville 1828, p. 653. — 

 Herrich-Schaeffer 1838, p. 54 [Hungary; Czechoslovakia]. — Mayr 

 1858, p. 570 [Caucasus; Austria]. 

 Piesma melanocephalum: Burmeister 1835, p. 258 [Portugal]. 

 Dictyonota eryngii: Westwood 1840b, p. 121 [England]. 

 Monanthia (Tropidocheila) melanocephala: Herrich-Schaeffer 1850, p. 151. 

 Monanthia albida (not Herrich-Schaeffer): Fieber 1861, p. 124 [Seseli 



glaucum] . 

 Monanthia nigripes Motschulsky 1863, p. 91 [Algeria]. — Kiritshenko 



1915, p. 300. 

 Monanthia eryngii: Garbiglietti 1869, p. 273 [Italy]. — Jakovlev 1880b, 

 p. 109 [Onopordon].—Chicote 1880, p. 189 [Spain].— Hueber 1893, 

 p. 343. 

 Catoplatus (Coscinopoea) eryngii: Stal 1873, p. 128; 1874a, p. 58. 

 Catoplatus (Coscinopoea) albidus: Stal 1874, p. 58. 

 Monanthia (Catoplatus) eryngii: Puton 1879c, p. 117 [France; Eryngium 



maritimum]. 

 Catoplatus carthusianus: Reuter 1891a, p. 26 [Greece]. — Lambertie 

 1906, p. 25— Horvath 1906a, pp. 86, 89 [Turkey].— Oshanin 1908, 

 p. 443 [Morocco; Rumania; Iran]. — Moroder Sala 1920, p. 12. — 

 Reichensperger 1920, p. 62.— de Seabra 1924, p. 16, fig. 28; 1931, 

 p. 429, figs. 500 (2-4), 501.— Stichel 1926, p. 113; 1960a, p. 324, 

 fig. 127 [Sardinia; Bulgaria]. — Lindberg 1932a, p. 43. — Scholte 

 1935, p. 77, fig. 20 [Netherlands].— Hoberlandt 1942, p. 125; 1955, 

 p. 92 [Transcaucasus]. — Kiritshenko 1951, p. 251. — Novak and 

 Wagner 1951, p. 71 [Yugoslavia; Eryngium amethystinum]. — Mancini 

 1953b, p. 186 [Albania]; 1953c, p. 22.— Seidenstiicker 1954, p. 236 — 

 Gomez-Menor 1955b, p. 249.— Stusak 1957a, p. 21, figs. 4, 5; 1957b, 

 p. 136, fig. 4; 1959a, p. 52, figs. 1-8. 

 Catoplatus melanocephalus: Lethierry and Severin 1896, p. 20. 

 Cantacader nigripes: Oshanin 1908, p. 401. — Drake 1950a, p. 164. 

 Type: Unknown. 



Distribution: England; France; Netherlands; Spain; Portugal; Italy; 

 Sardinia; Austria; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Albania; Hungary; Yugo- 

 slavia; Bulgaria; Greece; Rumania; Turkey; Iran; U.S.S.R. (Caucasus; 

 Transcaucasus); Algeria; Morocco. 



