Acanthosoma Curtis, 1824

Tsai, Jing-Fu & Rédei, Dávid, 2015, The genus Acanthosoma in Taiwan (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Acanthosomatidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (2), pp. 625-664 : 627

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5303571
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5331591
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scientific name	Acanthosoma Curtis, 1824
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Genus Acanthosoma Curtis, 1824 View in CoL

Acanthosoma Curtis, 1824a View in CoL : [legend to plate 20]. Type species by subsequent designation ( CURTIS 1824b: [legend to plate 28]): Cimex haemorrhoidalis Linnaeus, 1758 .

Anaxandra Stål, 1876: 110 View in CoL . Type species by subsequent designation ( DISTANT 1902: 321): Acanthosoma rufescens Dallas, 1851 View in CoL . Synonymized by KUMAR (1974: 53), confirmed by TSAI & RÉDEI (2015b: 5).

Remark. A redefinition and a selected bibliography of the genus and redescriptions of selected species were provided by TSAI & RÉDEI (2015b).

Diagnosis and distribution. The genus contains 23 previously described species occurring in temperate, subtropical and tropical regions of Eurasia ( TSAI & RÉDEI 2015b). By describing four new species in the present effort, this number is now increased to 27. Twelve species are known to occur in Taiwan.