Species Empicoris rubromaculatus (Blackburn, 1889)

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• Ploiariodes rubromaculata Blackburn, T. 1889. Notes on the Hemiptera of the Hawaiian Islands. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 3: 343-354 [349].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♀, Manua Loa, Hawaii.
• Ploiariodes euryale Kirkaldy, G.W. 1908. A catalogue of the Hemiptera of Fiji. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 33: 345-391 pl. IV [372].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BPBM ♂, Rewa, Fiji.
  Paralectotype(s) BPBM ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Wygodzinsky, P. 1966. A monograph of the Emesinae (Reduviidae, Hemiptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 133: 1-614 [384]; Cassis, G. & Gross, G.F. 1995. Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Coleorrhuncha to Cimicomorpha). pp. 1-501 in Houston, W.W.K. & Maynard, G.V. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha to Cimicomorpha. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 27.3A xv 506 pp. (interpret Wygodzinsky's incorrect inference of holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Ploiariodes californica Banks, N. 1909. Notes on our species of Emesidae. Psyche (Cambridge) 16: 43-48 [46].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMUC, Stanford Univ., Calif., USA.
• Ploiariola scotti Distant. W.L. 1913. Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905. Vol. 5. No. IX Rhynchota. Part 1. Suborder Heteroptera. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 16: 139-191 [163].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Mallé, Seychelles.
• Ploiariola sagax Horváth, G. 1914. Miscellanea Hemipterologica. XIII–XVII. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 12: 623-660 [642].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNH ♀, locality unknown.
• Ploiariola froggatti Horváth, G. 1914. Miscellanea Hemipterologica. XIII–XVII. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 12: 623-660 [643].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNH ♀, Sydney, NSW.
• Empicoris tingitanus Dispons, P. 1955. Les Réduviides de l'Afrique Nord-Occidentale. Biologie et biogéographie. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] A10: 93-240 [174].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP (Institution uncertain), Tanger.
• Empicoris microcephalus Villiers, A. 1960. Les Réduviides de Madagascar. XIIC. Récoltes de M.E. MacCallan. Bulletin de l'Académie malgache 36: 17-29 [28].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♂, Madagascar.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• McAtee, W.L. & Malloch, J.R. 1922. Changes in names of American Rhynchota chiefly Emesinae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 35: 95-96 [95] (synonymy of Ploiariodes euryale and Ploiariodes californica)
• McAtee, W.L. & Malloch, J.R. 1925. Revision of the American bugs of the reduviid subfamily Ploiariinae. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 67: 1-153 pls 1-9 [17] (synonymy of Ploiariola froggatti)
• Wygodzinsky, P. 1966. A monograph of the Emesinae (Reduviidae, Hemiptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 133: 1-614 [383] (synonymy of Ploiariola scotti, Ploiariola sagax, Empicoris tingitanus and Empicoris microcephalus)

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