Paramecocoris ruficornis ( Fieber, 1851 ) Salini & Kment, 2021

Salini, S. & Kment, Petr, 2021, The genera Agathocles and Surenus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) tribal reassessment, redescription, new synonyms, and description of two new species, Zootaxa 4958 (1), pp. 510-559 : 547

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.31
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scientific name	Paramecocoris ruficornis ( Fieber, 1851 )
status	comb. nov.

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Paramecocoris ruficornis ( Fieber, 1851) comb. nov.

Paramecus ruficornis Fieber, 1851: 459 (original description). Syntype (s): Hinterindien (Dr. Helfer) (MNHN).

Paramecus ruficornis: Stål (1876) : 71 (list); Atkinson (1888): 17 –18 (translation of original description); Lethierry & Severin (1893): 112 (catalogue); Distant (1902): 148 (translation of original description).

Sciocoris? ruficornis: Walker (1867) View in CoL : 178 (listed as synonym of Cimex ruficornis Fabricius ).

Burma ruficornis : Kirkaldy (1909): 42 (catalogue).

Nomenclature. Stål (1854) proposed Paramecocoris as a replacement name for Paramecus Fieber, 1851 View in CoL , a junior homononym of Paramecus Dejean, 1829 View in CoL ( Coleoptera View in CoL : Carabidae View in CoL ). As such, Paramecocoris must take the same type species as Paramecus View in CoL ( ICZN 1999: Art. 67.8). Stål (1854) included in Paramecocoris four Afrotropical species, P. ellipticus ( Spinola, 1850) [= Delagorguella elliptica Spinola, 1850 ], P. fatidicus Stål, 1854 [= D. ventralis ( Germar, 1837)], P. lutulentus Stål, 1854 [= Erachteus lutulentus ( Stål, 1854) ], and P. phaleratus Stål, 1854 [= D. phalerata ( Stål, 1854)]. Stål (1876) used both generic names as valid: Paramecus View in CoL for P. ruficornis (also accepted in Distant 1902), and Paramecocoris for five African species. Kirkaldy (1909: xxxiii) wrongly designated Delagorguella elliptica Spinola, 1850 , as type species of Paramecocoris , considering it junior synonym of Delagorguella Spinola, 1850 (Myrocheini), while he placed Paramecus ruficornis in the genus Burma Kirkaldy, 1904 he proposed earlier as a new substitute name for Paramecus Fieber, 1851 View in CoL . Paramecocoris is the valid generic name for Paramecus ruficornis Fieber, 1851 (with Burma Kirkaldy, 1904 being its junior objective synonym), as it was noted already by Van Duzee (1929). However, the combination Paramecocoris ruficornis ( Fieber, 1851) , comb. nov., is first formally proposed here. The species was described based on unknown number of specimens, i.e. syntypes, from ‘Hinterindien (Dr. Helfer)’ which most probably refers to Tenasserim (southern Myanmar) where Czech entomologist J. W. Helfer (1810–1840) worked from 1837 to 1840 as an employee of the East Indian Company (see Bezděk & Hájek 2010; Wolcott & Renner 2017).