• Lyctocoris Hahn, C.W. 1835. Die Wanzenartigen Insecten. Getreu nach der Natur abgebildet und beschrieben. Nürnberg : C.H. Zeh'schen Buchhandlung Vol. 3 16 pp. [19].

  Type species:

   Cimex domesticus Schilling, 1834 by monotypy.
• Dolichomerus Reuter, O.M. 1871. Acanthiidae americanae, descriptae ab O.M. Reuter. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 28: 557-567 pl. 7 [557] [junior homonym of Dolichomerus Marquat, 1850 (Diptera)].

  Type species:

   Dolichomerus elongatus Reuter, 1871 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 [119].
• Dolichomerium Kirkaldy, G.W. 1900. Bibliographical and nomenclatorial notes on the Rhynchota. No. 1. The Entomologist 33(448): 238-243 [242] [nom. nov. for Dolichomerus Reuter, 1871].
• Nesidiocheilus Kirkaldy, G.W. 1902. Hemiptera. 93-174 pls IV-V in Sharp, D. (ed.). Fauna Hawaiiensis Volume III Part II. Cambridge : University Press. [127].

  Type species:

   Nesidiocheilus hawaiiensis Kirkaldy, 1902 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Zimmerman, E.C. 1948. Insects of Hawaii. Heteroptera. Honolulu : Univ. Hawaii Press Vol. 3 255 pp. [174] (synonymy of Nesidiocheilus)
• Péricart, J. 1972. Hémiptères. Anthocoridae, Cimicidae et Microphysidae de l'Ouest-Paléarctique. Faune de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen 7: 1-402 [200] (synonymy of Dolichomerium)

History of changes

• Acanthia campestris Fabricius, J.C. 1794. Entomologia Systematica Emendata et Aucta. Secundum, Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, adjectis synonimis [sic], locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tom. 1. Hafniae : Christ. Gottl. Proft. xx 330 pp. [75].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ZMUC ♀, Sjaelland, Denmark (as Danemark).
  Paralectotype(s) ZMUC ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Péricart, J. 1970. Désignation de néotypes, lectotypes et paralectotypes pour diverses espèces Paléarctiques d'Anthocoridae et Microphysidae [Hemiptera]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France ns 6: 733-755 [745].
• Cimex pallidus Rossi, P. 1794. Mantissa Insectorum, exhibens species nuper in Etruria collectas, adjectis faunae Etruscae illustrationibus ac emendationibus. Pisa : Polloni 154 pp. 8 colour pls. [55].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Italy (as Etruria).
• Lygaeus arvicola Latreille, P.A. 1804. Histoire naturelle, Générale et Particulière, des Crustacés et des Insectes. Paris : F. Dufart Vol. 12 424 pp. pls xciv-xcvii. [220].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, locality unknown.
• Phytocoris pallens Fallén, C.F. 1829. Hemiptera Sueciae. Cimicides eorumque familiae affines. Londini Gothorum : Berlingiana iv + 188 pp. [103].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMLU ♀, Scania, Sweden (as Sveciae).
• Cimex domesticus Schilling, P.S. 1834. Ueber eine geflägelte Hauswanze. Isis 7: 738 [738].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Poland (as Silesia).
• Xylocoris americanus Dallas, W.S. 1852. List of the Specimens of Hemipterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. London : Taylor & Francis Part 2 369-592 pp. pls XII-XV. [589].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, N America.
• Xylocoris (Lyctocoris) distinguendus Flor, G. 1860. Die Rhynchoten Livlands in Systematischer Folge bescreiben. Erster Theil: Rhynchota frontirostria Zett. (Hemiptera Heteroptera Ast.). Archiv für die Naturkunde Liv-, Ehst-, und Kurlands. II Serie, Biologische Naturkunde (1860–1861). Dorpat : Carl Schulz 826 pp. [666].

  Type data:

   Lectotype IZBT ♀, southern Russia (as Russie méridionale).
  Paralectotype(s) IZBT ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Péricart, J. 1970. Désignation de néotypes, lectotypes et paralectotypes pour diverses espèces Paléarctiques d'Anthocoridae et Microphysidae [Hemiptera]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France ns 6: 733-755 [745].
• Cardiastethus currax Garbiglietti, A. 1869. Catalogus methodicus et synonymicus et hemipterorum eteropterorum (Rhyngotha Fabr.) Italiae indigenarum. Accedit descriptio aliquot specierum vel minus vel nondum cognitarum. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 1: 41-52, 105-124, 181-198, 271-281 [123].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MSNT (Institution uncertain, types possibly lost), in the hills of Turin, Italy (as in collibus Taurinensibus).
• Lyctocoris fitchii Reuter, O.M. 1871. Acanthiidae americanae, descriptae ab O.M. Reuter. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 28: 557-567 pl. 7 [557].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) UZMH ♂ ♀, New York, USA (as Newyork).
• Xylocoris latus Walker, F. 1872. Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. Part V. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-202. [159].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 3♀, Madeira, Spain.
• Nesidiocheilus hawaiiensis Kirkaldy, G. W. 1902. Memoir upon the Rhyncotal family Capsidae Auctt. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1902: 243-272, pls V & VI [127].

  Type data:

   Holotype Maui, Haleakala, Hawaii.

  Secondary source:

   Lattin, J.D. 2006. Nesidiocheilus hawaiiensis Kirkaldy, 1902, a synonym of Acanthia campestris Fabricius, 1794 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lyctocoridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 108(1): 240 [240] (synoymy).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Reuter, O.M. 1871. Skandinaviens och Finlands Acanthiider. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 28: 403-429 [409] (synonymy of Phytocoris pallens and Cimex domesticus)
• Reuter, O.M. 1884. Monographie Anthocoridarum orbis terrestris. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 14: 555-758 [561] (synonymy of Cimex pallidus, Xylocoris (Lyctocoris) distinguendus, Cardiastethus currax and Lyctocoris fitchii)
• Reuter, O.M. 1888. Revisio synonymica Heteropterorum palaearcticorum quae descripserunt auctores vetustiores (Linné 1758-Latreille 1806) beschrieben Palaearktischen Heteropteren. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 15: 241-315, 443-812 [312] (synonymy of Lygaeus arvicola)
• Van Duzee, E.P. 1916. Check List of the Hemiptera (excepting the Aphididae, Aleurodidae and Coccidae) of America, North of Mexico. New York : New York Entomological Society xi 111 pp. [34] (synonym of Xylocoris americanus)
• China, W.E. 1938. Die Arthropodenfauna von Madeira nach den Ergebnissen der Reise von Prof. Dr. O. Lundblad Juli—August 1935. III. Terrestrial Hemiptera (Hemiptera and Homoptera Auchenorrhyncha). Arkiv för Zoologi 30A(2): 1-68 [29] (synonym of Xylocoris latus)
• Kelton, L.A. 1967. Synopsis of the genus Lyctocoris in North America and description of a new species from Quebec (Heteroptera: Anthocoridae). The Canadian Entomologist 99: 807-814 [808] (synonymy of Cimex pallidus, Xylocoris (Lyctocoris) distinguendus and Xylocoris latus)

History of changes