Subfamily 9. 
Coptosominae. 
(= Plataspidae auctt.) 
Stal 1876 Svensk. Vet. Ak. Handl. 14. no. 4. pp. 3—4 (table of 11 genera). 
Stal 1865 Hem. Afr. I. 1—2 (table of 9 genera). 
Dallas 1851 List 61 (table of 8 genera). 
Distant 1902 Faun. Ind. Rh. I. 3—4 (table of 12 Indo-Sinhalese genera). 
Montandon cf. numerous revisional papers in Revue d’Entomologie, A. S. E. Belg., 
Ann. Mus. Genova, Bull. 8. Sci. Bucarest ete. 
Vollenhoven in Faune entom. indo-néerl. I. (see “Scutellerinae”). 
This peculiar subfamily has a superficial likeness to the typical Thyreocoridae, 
but the abdominal structure is very different. It is entirely absent from America, 
from New Zealand and Hawaii, and only poorly represented in the Palaearctic Region 
and Australian Mainland (except N. Queensland). 
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Australasian Oriental Ethiopian | Palaearctic 
America 
Genera 
Australia 
New Zealand 
Hawaii 
Austro 
Malayan 
Indo 
Malayan 
Indochinese 
Philippines 
Continental 
Malayan 
Palaearctic 
proper 
Manchurian | 
America 
(excl. Chile) 
Chile a. South 
Patagonia 
Total Species 
Heterocrates 
Aphanopneuma 
Montandonistella 
Severiniella . 
Handhirschiella 
Ceratocoris . 
Libyaspis 
Gelastaspis . 
Niamia . . 
Cantharodes. 
Apotomogonius 
Isoplatys . 
Madegaschia 
Montandoneus . 
Caternaultiella. 
Ponsila 
Tarichea . 
Calacta 
Dolichisme . 
Oncylaspis 
Cronion , 
Spathocrates 
Brachyplatys 
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