The epithet annulipes is usually credited to A. Costa (1847b: 9) in the combination Merocoris annulipes. Herrich-Schaeffer (1840c: 366) reduced his own Coreus annulipes to synonymy with Burmeister’s (1835: 309) concept of Coreus denticulatus (Scopoli, 1763) [a misidentification, not denticulatus Scopoli, which is a species of Coriomeris Westwood]. Costa cited Burmeister’s misidentification of Cimex denticulatus Scopoli, 1763 in synonymy with M. annulipes, showing that he was reviving the epithet annulipes Herrich-Schaeffer for this species. The Lithuania designation for Merocoris annulipes A. Costa, 1847 (Carapezza et al., 1995: 282) is invalid, as Costa’s specimens are not STS of Herrich-Schaeffer’s species. The record from Egypt (El Hamouly et al., 2010) needs confirmation.
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