Proboscidocoris malayus Reuter,

Usinger, Robert L., 1946, Hemiptera Heteroptera of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin 189, pp. 11-103 : 63

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5245300
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scientific name	Proboscidocoris malayus Reuter,
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58. Proboscidocoris malayus Reuter, View in CoL Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, Ann. 22: 188, 1907.

One male, Agana Swamp, June 26, sweeping grasses and Jussiaea, Usinger ; one female, Piti, Sept. 1, rice seedling plot, Swezey .

These differ slightly from Reuter's description, the apex of the scutellum and the lateral margins of the coria being narrowly pale. In this they agree with the nearly allied African punctaticollis Reuter but the golden pubescence mentioned for malayus is very conspicuous and is not present in the African species or in any of the Oriental species before me, including specimens from Java, Larat, Amboina , and Borneo.

P. malayus is widespread in the Austro-Oriental region. Poppius (Archiv fiir Naturgesch. 80A:42, 1914) mentions the following localities: Java, Lombok, Malacca, Sumatra, Mentawei, Celebes, New Guinea, Philippines, Formosa, and Japan.