Distant (1902a: 419) and Gross (1960: 428) reduced this species to synonymy with Leptocoris abdominalis (Fabricius, 1803) but Göllner-Scheiding (1983: 165) reinstated it. Göllner-Scheiding (1992: 278) referred to Leptocoris abdominalis taprobanensis (Dallas, 1852) as occurring in Socotra, a statement in accordance with Distant’s (l.c.) assertion that taprobanensis… is the Socotran form recently described by Kirkaldy.
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