Species Pristhesancus plagipennis Walker, 1873

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• Pristhesancus plagipennis Walker, F. 1873. Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. Part VIII. Scutata. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-220. [88].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♂, Richmond River, NSW (as Australia).
• Pristhesancus luteicollis Walker, F. 1873. Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. Part VIII. Scutata. London : E. Newman Preface pp. 1-220. [89].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH ♀, Moreton Bay, QLD.
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Malipatil, M.B. 1986. Revision of Australian Pristhesancus Amyot and Serville (Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 34: 601-610 [605]; Cassis, G. & Gross, G.F. 1995. Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Coleorrhuncha to Cimicomorpha). pp. 1-501 in Houston, W.W.K. & Maynard, G.V. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha to Cimicomorpha. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 27.3A xv 506 pp. (interpret Malipatil's incorrect inference of holotype as a lectotype designation (Art. 74, ICZN 1985)).
• Pristhesancus fasciatus Reuter, O.M. 1881. Ad cognitionem Reduvidarum mundi antiqui. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 12: 1-71, 269-339 [273].

  Type data:

   Holotype UZMH ♀, Australia (as Nova Hollandia).
• Pristhesancus melitus Distant, W.L. 1903. On some undescribed Rhynchota. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 11: 72-77 [77].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, Rockhampton, QLD.
• Pristhesancus uniformis Distant, W.L. 1903. Rhynchotal notes. XVII. Heteroptera: Family Reduviidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 11: 352-367 [363].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH ♀, QLD.
• Pristhesancus nigridorsum Miller, N.C.E. 1958. Results on the Archbold Expeditions. On the Reduviidae of New Guinea and adjacent islands (Hemiptera–Heteroptera). Part. 2. Nova Guinea 9: 145-229 [156].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH ♀, Australia.
• Pristhesancus ruralis Miller, N.C.E. 1958. Results on the Archbold Expeditions. On the Reduviidae of New Guinea and adjacent islands (Hemiptera–Heteroptera). Part. 2. Nova Guinea 9: 145-229 [191].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH ♀, NSW.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Distant, W.L. 1903. Rhynchotal notes. XVI. Heteroptera: Family Reduviidae (continued), Apiomerinae, Harpactorinae and Nabinae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 11: 203-213, 243-258 [250] (Pristhesancus luteicollis as junior synonym of Pristhesancus papuensis Stål, 1861)
• Malipatil, M.B. 1986. Revision of Australian Pristhesancus Amyot and Serville (Heteroptera: Reduviidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 34: 601-610 [605]

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