Amnestus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Heteroptera
Infraordo: Pentatomomorpha
Superfamilia: Pentatomoidea

Familia: Cydnidae
Subfamilia: Amnestinae
Genus: Amnestus
Synonyms (2): Magoa – Pachymeroides

Species (41): A. basidentatus – A. bergrothi – A. bolivari – A. brailovskyi – A. brunneus – A. calakmulensis – A. carinatus – A. championi – A. cribratus – A. dallasi – A. diminuatus – A. explanatus – A. ficus – A. forreri – A. foveatus – A. henryi – A. lateralis – A. lautipennis – A. lenkoi – A. macroptera – A. mendeli – A. obscurus – A. pallidus – A. pequinus – A. pusillus – A. pusio – A. radialis – A. rugosus – A. sexdentatus – A. signoreti – A. sinuosus – A. spinifrons – A. stali – A. subferrugineus – A. tenebrio – A. trimaculatus – A. uhleri – A. zacki – †A. electricus – †A. guapinolinus – †A. priscus

Add (11): A. carinopilosus – A. chiapensis – A. cristobalensis – A. denticulatus – A. laevifemoralis – A. longinoi – A. lorenae – A. marcelae – A. puncticarinatus – A. santiagensis – A. septemclavatus
Name

Amnestus Dallas, 1851

References
Primary references

Dallas 1851: List Specimens Hem. Ins. Coll. Brit. Mus., 1, 110, 126.

selected references

Froeschner, R.C. 1960: Cydnidae of the Western Hemisphere. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 111: 337–673. BHL [see p. 630]
Lis, J.A. & Lis, B. 2016. Amnestus mendeli sp. n., the first burrower bug species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae) recorded on Ascension Island, central Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa 4126(1): 115–122. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4126.1.6. Reference page.
Mayorga M., C.; Peredo, L.C. 2014: The genus Amnestus Dallas (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae: Amnestinae) in Mexico, with the description of eleven new species from Chiapas. Zootaxa 3779(4): 401–432. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3779.4.1 Reference page.

Links

Catalogue of Life: 2012 Annual Checklist [very incomplete!]
EoL [very incomplete!]
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Nomenclator Zoologicus

Amnestus is a genus of burrowing bugs in the family Cydnidae. There are more than 40 described species in Amnestus.[1][2][3]
Species

These 48 species belong to the genus Amnestus:

Amnestus andersoni Mayorga & Mayorga, 2017
Amnestus basidentatus Froeschner, 1960
Amnestus bergrothi Distant
Amnestus brailovskyanus Mayorga & Mayorga, 2017
Amnestus brailovskyi Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus brunneus Signoret
Amnestus calakmulensis Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus carinatus Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus carinopilosus Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus championi Distant
Amnestus chiapensis Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus cristobalensis Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus dallasi Distant
Amnestus denticulatus Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus diminuatus Barber
Amnestus ficus Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus forreri Distant
Amnestus foveatus Froeschner
Amnestus henryi Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus laevifemoralis Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus lateralis Signoret, 1883
Amnestus longinoi Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus lorenae Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus marcelae Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus mendeli
Amnestus oaxacensis Mayorga & Mayorga, 2017
Amnestus obscurus Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus ortegae Mayorga & Mayorga, 2017
Amnestus pallidus Zimmer, 1910
Amnestus puncticarinatus Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus pusillus Uhler, 1876
Amnestus pusio (Stål, 1860)
Amnestus radialis Froeschner
Amnestus rugosus Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus santiagensis Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus septemclavatus Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus sexdentatus Froeschner
Amnestus signoreti Distant
Amnestus sinuosus Mayorga & Cervantes
Amnestus spinifrons (Say, 1825)
Amnestus stali Distant
Amnestus subferrugineus Westwood
Amnestus trimaculatus Froeschner, 1960
Amnestus uhleri Distant
Amnestus zacki
† Amnestus electricus Thomas, 1994
† Amnestus guapinolinus Thomas, 1988
† Amnestus priscus Thomas, 1994

References

"Amnestus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
"Amnestus". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.

"Amnestus genus Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.