Genus Ploiaria Scopoli, 1786

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• Ploiaria Scopoli, I.A. 1786. Deliciae Faunae et Florae Insubricae, seu novae aut minus cognitae species planatrum et animalium quas in Insubria austriaca tum spontaceas quum exoticas vidit descripsit et aeri incindi curavit. St Salvator : Ticini Vol. 1 ix 85 pp. 25 pls. [60].

  Type species:

   Ploiaria domestica Scopoli, 1786 by monotypy.
• Cerascopus Heineken, C. 1830. Descriptions of a new genus of Hemiptera, and of a species of Hegeter. Zoological Journal London 5: 35-40 pl. 2 [36].

  Type species:

   Cerascopus marginatus Heineken, 1830 by monotypy.
• Emesodema Spinola, M.M. 1840. Essai sur les insectes Hémiptères, Rhyngotes ou Hétéroptères. Paris : Baillière 383 pp. [84] [junior objective synonym of Ploiaria Scopoli, 1786].

  Type species:

   Ploiaria domestica Scopoli, 1786 by original designation.
• Luteva Dohrn, A. 1860. Beiträge zu einer monographischen Bearbeitung der Familie der Emesina. Linnaea Entomologica 14: 206-255 1 pl. [242].

  Type species:

   Luteva concolor Dohrn, 1860 by subsequent designation, see 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. [28].
• Ploiariopsis Champion, G.C. 1898. Insecta: Rhynchota (Hemiptera-Heteroptera): Tingidae to Hydrometridae. pp. 33-192 pls iii-xi in Godman, F.D. & Salvin, O. (eds). Biologia Centrali-Americana. London : Publisher unknown Vol. 2. [173].

  Type species:

   Ploiariopsis megalops Champion, 1898 by subsequent designation, see Van Duzee, E.P. 1917. Catalogue of the Hemiptera of America north of Mexico, excepting the Aphididae, Coccidae and Aleurodidae. University of California Publications in Entomology. Technical Bulletin 2: xiv 1-902 [235].
• Elymas Distant, W.L. 1909. Oriental Rhynchota Heteroptera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8 3: 491-507 [504].

  Type species:

   Elymas praesentans Distant, 1909 by original designation.
• Culicimimus Villiers, A. 1948. Hémiptères Réduviidés de l'Afrique Noire. Faune de l'Empire Français 9: 1-489 [446].

  Type species:

   Culicimimus gabonensis Villiers, 1948 by original designation.
• Wahrmania Dispons, P. 1964. Emesinae d'Israel (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Israel Journal of Zoology 13: 69-77 [71].

  Type species:

   Wahrmania katznelsoni Dispons, 1964 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Van Duzee, E.P. 1917. Catalogue of the Hemiptera of America north of Mexico, excepting the Aphididae, Coccidae and Aleurodidae. University of California Publications in Entomology. Technical Bulletin 2: xiv 1-902 [235] (synonymy of Cerascopus, Emesodema and Luteva)
• 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 Ploiariopsis)
• Wygodzinsky, P. 1966. A monograph of the Emesinae (Reduviidae, Hemiptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 133: 1-614 [158] (synonymy of Elymas and Culicimimus)
• Putshkov, P.V. 1984. New reduviid bugs from the southern USSR (Heteroptera, Reduviidae). Vestnik Zoologii 1984: 14-19 [18] (synonymy of Wahrmania)

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