Pothea Amyot & Serville

Pothea Amyot & Serville, 1843: 344 –345 [description]; Stål, 1859, 176 [key], 184 [redescription], 184–185 [checklist of species]; Stål, 1872: 101 [key], 103–104 [checklist and key to species]; Walker, 1873a: 47 [key], 80 [key]; Walker, 1873b: 63 –64 [checklist and key to four species]; Lethierry & Severin, 1896: 131 [catalog]; Champion, 1898: 221 [diagnosis, key to Central American species]; Wygodzinsky, 1949: 23 [catalog]; Wygodzinsky, 1951: 36 [key]; Carpintero, 1978: 177 –286 [revision of the genus and Argentinean species]; Carpintero,1980: 9 [diagnosis]; Putshkov & Putshkov, 1985: 16 [catalog]; Maldonado, 1990: 65–67 [catalog]; Dougherty, 1995: 202 [key], 211–212 [diagnosis, checklist of species]; Carpintero & Maldonado, 1996: 126 [key], 135–136 [diagnosis]; Forero, 2004: 144 [diagnosis], 181–182 [key]; Gil-Santana et al. 2013a: 71 [key].

Type species: Reduvius ventralis Lepeletier & Serville, 1825: 280, by subsequent designation: Van Duzee, 1916: 29.

Anapothea Miller, 1956: 8; Wygodzinsky, 1959: 297 [as synonym of Pothea]. Type species: Anapothea amoena Miller, 1956: 8, by original designation.

Parapothea Carpintero, 1980: 9 [description]; Maldonado, 1990: 64 [catalog]; Dougherty, 1995: 211 [as synonym of Pothea]; Carpintero & Maldonado, 1996: 126 [key], 134–135 [diagnosis]; Forero, 2004: 144 [diagnosis], 181 [key]; Forero, 2006: 8 [discussion on validity]; Gil-Santana et al. 2013a: 71 [key]; REINSTATED SYNONYMY.

Type species: Parapothea jaguaris Carpintero, 1980: 9, by original designation.