Subgenus Metacanthus (Metacanthus) Costa, 1847
- Metacanthus Costa, A. 1847. Cimicum Regni Neapolitani centuriae. Atti del Reale Istituto d'Incorra giamento alle Scienze Naturali. Part 2. 239-279, pls 1-2 [258].
Type species:
Metacanthus meridionale Costa, 1838 by monotypy. - Megalomerium Fieber, F.X. 1859. Familie der Berytideae. Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift 3: 200-210 [208].
Type species:
Megalomerium pallidum Fieber, 1859 by monotypy. - Aknisus McAtee, W.L. 1919. Key to the Nearctic genera and species of Berytidae (Heteroptera). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 27: 79-92 [81].
Type species:
Aknisus calvus McAtee, 1919 by original designation. Type species:
Iterduca prima Distant, 1918 by original designation.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1894. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome II. Hétéroptères Coreidae, Berytidae, Lygaeidae, Pyrrhocoridae. Bruxelles : F. Hayez 277 pp. [131] (synonymy of Megalomerium)
- Bergroth, E. 1913. Supplementum Catalogi Heteropterorum Bruxellensis II. Coreidae, Pyrrhocoridae, Colobathristidae, Neididae. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 22: 125-183 [177] (synonymy of Megalomerium)
- Froeschner, R.C. 1985. Synopsis of the Heteroptera or true bugs of the Galápagos Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 407: iii 1-84 [10] (synonymy of Aknisus)
- Henry, T.J. 1997. Cladistic analysis and revision of the stilt bug genera of the world (Heteroptera: Berytidae). Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 30(1): 1-100 [78] (synonymy of Iterduca)
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan.
IBRA
NT, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Gascoyne (GAS), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Sturt Plateau (STU), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Yalgoo (YAL)
Distribution References
General References
Henry, T.J. 1997. Monograph of the stilt bugs, of Berytidae (Heteroptera) of the Western Hemisphere. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 19: 1-149 [123] (description)
History of changes
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