Cimex aterrimus Forster, 1771: 71. ST(S): Spain, ad fretum Gaditanum [= Golfo de Cádiz].
?Cimex niger spinipes De Geer, 1773: 269 (not binominal; syn. Fabricius, 1794: 124, with tristis). ST(S): Europe; lost.
Cimex tristis Fabricius, 1775: 716 (syn. Schrank, 1782: 278, suspected; Dallas, 1851a: 121). LT (J.A. Lis, 1994a: 101): male, Oriente; ZMUC.
Cimex spinipes Schrank, 1781: 273 (syn. Schrank, 1782: 278, with tristis). STS: Austria, Vienna; lost.
Cydnus carbonarius Geoffroy in Fourcroy, 1785: 217 (syn. Fabricius, 1794: 124, with tristis). For Cimex no. 70 in Geoffroy, 1762: 470. ST(S): France, Paris; lost.
Cydnus sanguinicollis Fabricius, 1803: 185 (syn. Stål, 1868a: 6). ST(S): Morocco, Tanger; ZMUC (1 ST).
Cydnus brunnipennis Fabricius, 1803: 185 (syn. Stål, 1868a: 6). ST(S): Morocco, Tanger; ZMUC (1 ST).
Brachypelta elevata Uhler, 1860: 222 (syn. Signoret, 1883b: 358). STS: South Africa, Cape of Good Hope; USNM.
Brachypelta aterrima var. sareptana Jakovlev, 1875: 148. LT (Derzhansky et al., 2002: 363): female, Russia (ST), Sarepta [= Krasnoarmeysk nr Volgograd]; ZMAS.
Cydnus aterrimus ab. orangeus Halászfy, 1953a: 191 (unavailable name). HT: female, Hungary, Nagyrábé; HNHM.
Cydnus aterrimus f. alveata Stichel, 1961: 697 (unavailable name). HT: Algeria; ZSMC?
Cydnus infernalis Kiritshenko, 1966: 799 (syn. J.A. Lis, 1997b: 405). HT: male, Iran, Isin, 30 km N of Bender-Abbass; ZMAS.
Cydnus sobrius Fuente, 1972b: 85 (syn. J.A. Lis, 1997b: 405). HT: male, Spain, Navarra, Badostain; Cátedra de Arthrópodos, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.