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Genus Nerthra Say, 1832

Nerthra Say, T. 1832. Descriptions of New Species of Heteropterous Hemiptera of North America. Indiana : New Harmony 39 pp. [37].
Type species:
Naucoris stygicus Say, 1832 by monotypy.
Mononyx Laporte, F.L. (Compte de Castelnau) 1832. Essai d'une classification systématique de l'ordre des Hémiptères (Hémiptères Héteroptères, Latr.). Magasin de Zoologie (Paris) 2: 1-16 [16].
Type species:
Naucoris raptorius Fabricius, 1803 by monotypy.
Peltopterus Guérin-Méneville, F.É. 1843. Note sur la Naucoris rugosa de J. Desjardins, formant un nouveau genre d'Hémiptères, et description de plusieurs espèces des genres Pelogonus et Mononyx. Revue de Zoologie Travaux Inetits 1843: 112-114 [113].
Type species:
Naucoris rugosus Desjardins, 1837 by monotypy.
Mononychus Agassiz, J.L.R. 1846. Nomenclatoris Zoologici, continens nomina systematica generum Animalum tam viventium quam Fossilium, secundum ordinem alphabeticum unicum disposita, adjectis homonymis planatum. Index Universalis. II. Soloduri : Jent & Grassman 393 pp. [238] [unjustified emendation of Mononyx Laporte, 1832; junior homonym of Mononychus Germar, 1824 (Coleoptera)].
Matinus Stål, C. 1861. Nova methodus familiae quasdam Hemipterorum disponendi. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 18: 195-212 [201].
Type species:
Mononyx alaticollis Stål, 1854 by original designation.
Phintius Stål, C. 1861. Nova methodus familiae quasdam Hemipterorum disponendi. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 18: 195-212 [201].
Type species:
Mononyx grandicollis Germar, 1838 by subsequent designation, see Kirkaldy, G.W. 1906. List of the genera of the pagiopodous Hemiptera-Heteroptera, with their type species, from 1758 to 1904 (and also of the aquatic and semi-aquatic Trochalopoda). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32: 117-156a, 156b [149].
Scylaecus Stål, C. 1861. Nova methodus familiae quasdam Hemipterorum disponendi. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 18: 195-212 [201].
Type species:
Galgulus macrothorax Montrouzier, 1855 by original designation.
Glossoaspis Blatchley, W.S. 1925. Some additional new species of Heteroptera from the southern United States, with characterization of a new genus. Entomological News 36: 45-52 [50].
Type species:
Glossoaspis brunnea Blatchley, 1925 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Montandon, A.L. 1899. Hémiptèra Cryptocerata. s. fam. Mononychinae. Notes et descriptions d'espèces nouvelles. 1ère partie. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences de Bucarest-Roumanie 8: 392-407 [392] (synonymy of Phintius and Scylaecus)
Champion, G.C. 1901. Insecta: Rhynchota (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). pp. 1-416 in Godman, F.D. & Salvin, O. (eds). Biologia Centrali-Americana; or, contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and central America, Zoology. London : Dulau Vol. 2 xvi 416 pp., 22 pls. [1897: 1–32; 1898: 33–192; 1899: 193–304; 1900: 305–344; 1901: xvi 345–416] [350] (synonymy of Mononyx)
Todd, E.L. 1955. A taxonomic revision of the family Gelastocoridae (Hemiptera). Kansas University Science Bulletin 37: 277-475 [345] (synonymy of Peltopterus, Matinus and Glossoaspis)

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications: GELASTOCORIDAE: Nerthra mixta (Montandon, 1899) [part of type series of N. mixta from Australia identified as N. luteovaria (Distant, 1904)] — Todd, E.L. 1959. The Gelastocoridae of Melanesia (Hemiptera). Results of the Archbold Expeditions. Nova Guinea ns 10: 61-94 [85]; Todd, E.L. 1960. The Gelastocoridae of Australia (Hemiptera). Pacific Insects 2: 171-194 [178]

Distribution

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Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

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IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; ACT, NSW, Qld, Vic: Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC) ; NSW, NT, Qld, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN) ; NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC) ; NSW, Qld, Tas: Brigalow Belt South (BBS) ; NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Nandewar (NAN), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NSW, Qld, Vic: New England Tablelands (NET), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT: Pine Creek (PCK) ; NT, Qld, WA: Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Northern Kimberley (NK), Victoria Bonaparte (VB) ; SA, WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Carnarvon (CAR), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Yalgoo (YAL) ; Vic: South East Coastal Plain (SCP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP) ; WA: Esperance Plains (ESP), Mallee (MAL), Warren (WAR)