Genus Byrsinus Fieber, 1861

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• Byrsinus Fieber, F.X. 1861. Die europäischen Hemiptera: Halbflügler (Rhynchota Heteroptera). Nach der analytischen Methode bearbeitet. Wien : C. Gerold vi 1-112 pp. [Date published 1861: dated 1860] [83] [first introduced as a subgenus of Cydnus Mulsant & Rey, 1866].

  Type species:

   Cydnus (Byrsinus) fossor Mulsant & Rey, 1866 by subsequent designation, see Oshanin, B.F. 1912. Katalog der paläarktischen Hemipteren (Heteroptera, Homoptera—Auchenorrhyncha und Psylloideae). Berlin : R. Friedländer & Sohn xvi 187 pp. [1].
• Psammozetus Mulsant, E. & Rey, C. 1866. Histoire Naturelle des Punaises de France, Pentatomides. Paris : F. Savy & Deyrolle Vol. 2 372 pp. 2 pls. [18] [first introduced as a subgenus of Cydnus Mulsant & Rey, 1866].

  Type species:

   Cydnus albipennis Costa, 1853 by monotypy.
• Putonisca Horváth, G. 1919. Analecta ad cognitionem Cydnidarum. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici (Zoologica) 17: 205-273 [235].

  Type species:

   Cydnus pallidus Puton, 1887 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Puton, A. 1886. Catalogue des Hémiptères (Hétéroptères, Cicadines et Psyllides) de la faune Paléarctique. Caen : Henri Delesques. pp. 3-100. (synonymy of Cydnus (Psammozetus))
• Lis, J.A. 1993. On Byrsinus Fieber and Microporus Uhler, two allied cydnid genera (Heteroptera: Cydnidae). Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum, Entomology 4: 79-98 [81] (synonymy of Putonisca)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Finke (FIN), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), NSW North Coast (NNC), Nullarbor (NUL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NSW, SA, Tas: Ben Lomond (BEL), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Distribution References

General References

Lis, J.A. 1996. A review of burrower bugs of the Australian Region, with a discussion on the distribution of the genera (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 7(2): 177-238 [206] (description)

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