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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) and Latreille (1796); to Ryngota by Fabricius (1775) and Fabricius (1798); to Cimicides by Latreille (1802); and to Cimicinae by Ossa et al. (2019).
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) and Latreille (1796); to Ryngota by Fabricius (1775) and Fabricius (1798); to Cimicides by Latreille (1802); and to Cimicinae by Ossa et al. (2019).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 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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G. Cimex Linnaeus 1758
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Invalid names: Acanthia Fabricius 1775 [objective synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available