Genus Polymerus Hahn, 1831

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• Polymerus Hahn, C.W. 1831. Die Wanzenartigen Insecten. Getreu nach der Natur abgebildet und beschrieben. Nürnburg : C.H. Zeh'schen Buchhandlung Vol. 1 36 pp. [27].

  Type species:

   Polymerus holosericeus Hahn, 1831 by monotypy.
• Poeciloscytus Fieber, F.X. 1858. Criterien zur generischen Theilung der Phytocoriden (Capsini aut.). Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift 2: 289-327 [311].

  Type species:

   Lygaeus unifasciatus Fabricius, 1794 by subsequent designation, see 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 [766].
• Systratiotus Douglas, J.W. & Scott, J. 1865. The British Hemiptera. Vol. I. Hemiptera-Heteroptera. London : Robert Hardwicke xii 627 pp. 21 pls. [443] [unnecessary nom. nov. for Polymerus Hahn, 1831].
• Metopicoris Odhiambo, T.R. 1960. Notes on the East African Miridae (Hemiptera). - XI: The genus Proboscidocoris Reuter. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 13 2: 321-360 [Date published 1959] [359].

  Type species:

   Proboscidocoris nitidus Reuter, 1960 by original designation.

  Secondary source:

   Akingbohungbe, A.E. 1978. A new hyaliodine genus for Megacoelum nigroscutellatum Distant with new combinations and tribal reassignment for some other species of Miridae (Heteroptera). Journal of Natural History 12: 87-95 [73] (synonymy with the genus Polymerus).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Knight, H.H. 1923. Family Miridae (Capsidae). pp. 422-658 in Britton, W.E. The Hemiptera or Sucking Insects of Connecticut. Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Bulletin 34: 1-807 [598]

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