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Cimex

Insecta - Hemiptera - Cimicidae

Taxonomy

Cimex was named by Linnaeus (1758). It is extant. It is the type genus of Cimicides, Cimicinae.

It was assigned to Proboscidea by Scopoli (1763); to Hemiptera by Linnaeus (1758), Linnaeus (1761), Geoffroy (1762), Müller (1764), Schaeffer (1766), Linnaeus (1767), Drury (1770), Forster (1771), Müller (1776), Harris (1780), Latreille (1796); to Ryngota by Fabricius (1775), Fabricius (1798); to Cimicides by Latreille (1802); and to Cimicinae by Ossa et al. (2019).

Synonyms

Acanthia was named by Fabricius (1775). It is extant.

It was synonymized objectively with Cimex by International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (1924).

It was assigned to Hemiptera by Latreille (1796); to Ryngota by Fabricius (1775), Fabricius (1798); and to Cimicides by Latreille (1802).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1758	Cimex Linnaeus p. 441
1761	Cimex Linnaeus p. 245
1762	Cimex Geoffroy p. 430
1763	Cimex Scopoli p. 120
1764	Cimex Müller p. 27
1766	Cimex Schaeffer
1767	Cimex Linnaeus p. 715
1770	Cimex Drury
1771	Cimex Forster p. 71
1775	Acanthia Fabricius p. 693
1775	Cimex Fabricius p. 696
1776	Cimex Müller p. 104
1780	Cimex Harris p. 88
1796	Cimex Latreille p. 83
1796	Acanthia Latreille p. 85
1798	Acanthia Fabricius p. 526
1798	Cimex Fabricius p. 527
1802	Acanthia Latreille p. 247
1802	Cimex Latreille p. 248
2019	Cimex Ossa et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta

Rank	Name	Author
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Clareocercaria
—	Acercaria	()
superorder	Pancondylognatha
—	Condylognatha
order	Hemiptera
suborder	Heteroptera
infraorder	Cimicomorpha	Leston et al. 1954
superfamily	Cimicoidea
family	Cimicidae	()
subfamily	Cimicinae
genus	Cimex

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Cimex Linnaeus 1758

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Invalid names: Acanthia Fabricius 1775 [objective synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Collections

No collection or age range data are available