Genus Pristhesancus Amyot & Serville, 1843

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• Pristhesancus Amyot, C.J.B. & Audinet-Serville, J.G. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Insects. Hémiptères. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Rue Hautefeuille 10 B13 676 pp. [360].

  Type species:

   Reduvius dorycus Boisduval, 1835 by monotypy.
• Cosmocleptes Stål, C. 1867. Bidrag till Reduviidernas kännedom. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 23(9): 235-302 [266].

  Type species:

   Pristhesancus congrex Stål, 1863 by subsequent designation, see Putshkov, V.G., Putshkov, P.V. & Štys, P. 1987. Type species designation and new names in Reduviidae (Heteroptera). Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 84: 102-105 [103].
• Polemistes Reuter, O.M. 1881. Ad cognitionem Reduvidarum mundi antiqui. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 12: 1-71, 269-339 [276].

  Type species:

   Polemistes bicoloripes Reuter, 1881 by subsequent designation, see Putshkov, V.G., Putshkov, P.V. & Štys, P. 1987. Type species designation and new names in Reduviidae (Heteroptera). Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 84: 102-105 [104].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Reuter, O.M. 1887. Reduviidae novae et minus cognitae descriptae. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 6: 149-167 [150] (synonymy of Polemistes)
• Maldonado Capriles, J. 1990. Systematic Catalogue of the Reduviidae of the World (Insecta: Heteroptera). Puerto Rico : University of Puerto Rico 694 pp. [262] (synonymy of Cosmocleptes)

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