A nomenclatural note in Cimicidae (Hemiptera) from South America Author Di, Osvaldo R. Author Turienzo, Paola N. text Zootaxa 2008 1730 65 68 journal article 49824 10.5281/zenodo.181295 6c373759-332f-4859-a619-9cf40aea5b6b 1175-5326 181295 Acanthocrios furnarii ( Cordero & Vogelsang, 1928 ) comb. nov. Cimex furnarii Cordero & Vogelsang 1928 : 671 –673 [descr.; distr.; figs.]; Del Ponte & Riesel 1945 : 473 [distr.; hosts]; Lent & Ábalos 1946 : 347 [anat.]. Cimex passerinus Cordero & Vogelsang 1928 : 674 –676 [descr.; distr.; figs.]; Usinger 1966 : 468 –469 [refs.], 471 [syn.]. Ornithocoris furnarii : Romaña & Ábalos 1947 : 80 [distr.; hosts]; Wygodzinsky 1951 : 187 [key nymphs I], 195–196 [distr.; biol.], figs. 7–9, 47–50; Wygodzinsky 1959a : 529 [distr.]; Wygodzinsky 1959b : 485 –486 [hosts]; Hicks 1959 : 248 [refs.; host], 447–448 [host; refs.]; Ronderos 1961 : 33 [map], 34–35 [distr.]; Sakamoto et al . 2006 : 3162 [table], 3166 [table]. Caminicimex furnarii : Usinger 1966 : 468 –471 [comb. nov.; descr.; distr.; hosts]; Hicks 1971 : 167 [refs.; host], 255 [host; refs.]; Andrade Figueiredo 1995 : 23 [distr.; host]; Aramburú & Carpintero 2006 : 85 [distr.; hosts]; Turienzo & Di Iorio 2007 [distr.; refs.; hosts]; Carpintero & Aramburú 2007 : 153 –156 [distr.; hosts]. Acanthocrios furnarii has always been associated with the “hornero” [ Furnarius rufus (Gmelin, 1788) ] in Argentina and Uruguay ( Turienzo & Di Iorio 2007 ), but recently the bug was found in nests of Hirundo rustica [ erythrogaster Boddaert, 1789], Progne chalybea [ domestica (Vieillot, 1817)] ( Aramburú & Carpintero 2006 ) and also Progne elegans Baird, 1865 [Aves: Hirundinidae ] from Buenos Aires ( Carpintero & Aramburú 2007 ). Swallows are probably the primary hosts of Acanthocrios furnarii , and the bugs’ presence in such other nests as those of Furnarius rufus and A. annumbi , is probably due to nest parasitism by bird species ( Turienzo & Di Iorio 2007 ). Cimicidae are known to remain for a long time in swallows´nests, and can go without feeding for prolonged periods when swallows abandon some nesting sites; sometimes during these times engorged bugs have been found with other animals that used the cliff swallow nests ( Loye 1985 ). It is not known if A. furnarii can survive and form large colonies in the nests of birds other than swallows ( Table 1 ).