O. Merkl szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 67. (Budapest, 2006)

FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK Volume 67 2006 pp. 11-14. New synonyms in Oriental Geocorinae (Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) E. KONDOROSY Pannon University, Georgikon Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Zoology H-8360 Keszthely, Deák F. u. 16, Hungary. E-mail: h5575kon@ella.lut Abstract - Taxonomic changes have been made in the Geocorinae (Lygaeidae), based mainly on observation of specimens in the collection of the Natural History Museum (London). Hypogeocoris itonis (HORVÁTH, 1905) is transferred to its original genus Geocoris FALLÉN, 1814. Six new synonyms were established: G.jucundus (FIEBER, 1861 ) (— Geocoris rutiloides DISTANT, 1918 syn. n. and G. vestitus DISTANT, 1901 syn. n.), Geocoris omatus (FIEBER, 1861) (= Geocoris walked LETHIERRY et SEVERIN, 1894 syn. n.), Geocoris ochropterus (FIEBER, 1844) (= Geocoris rujipennis DISTANT, 1918 syn n.), Geocoris erebus DISTANT, 1918 (= Geocoris varipes DISTANT, 1918 syn. n.), and Geocoris hirsutus MONTANDON, 1907 (= Geocoris kalighatus DISTANT, 1910 syn. n.). Lectotypes of Geocoris hirsutus MONTANDON, 1907 and Stylogeocoris birói MONTANDON, 1913 are designated. Key words - Geocorinae, synonymy, Oriental Region. INTRODUCTION The subfamily Geocorinae (or family Geocoridae sensu HENRY, 1997) is a well-defined group of Lygaeoidea with very characteristic attributes, such as wide head with big eyes or as predatory way of life. The species belonging here often show substantial variability in colour. There are a great number of species described here, especially in the genus Geocoris FALLÉN, 1814 (with nearly 140 known species now). This genus has never been revised at world-wide level, but in the Palaearctic region PÉRICART & RlBES (1992) and PÉRICART (1994) and in Australia MALIPATIL (1994) made revisions. Their studies pointed out that there are several synonyms not yet detected in the genus. The author was supported by the SYS-RESOURCE Program to study the Lygaeidae collection of the Natural History Museum in London. As a part of this