Amnestus Dallas
Creators: name: A, Magnanelli Marco
name: Coscarón, Maria Del Carmen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cydnidae
Amnestus

description: Genus Amnestus Dallas
Amnestus Dallas, 1851:126. Type species: Cydnus spinifrons Say, monotypic.
brailovskyi Mayorga & Cervantes, 2005
Amnestus brailovskyi Mayorga & Cervantes, 2005. J. New York Entomol. Soc. 113:159–161, 165–166. Holotype: male (UNAM). MEXICO, Hidalgo, Zimapan. Paratypes: 6 males, 8 females (IEXA, UNAM). MEX- ICO, Hidalgo, Zimapan, Tasquillo.
calakmulensis Mayorga & Cervantes, 2005
Amnestus calakmulensis Mayorga & Cervantes, 2005. J. New York Entomol. Soc. 113:166–167. Holotype: male (UNAM). MEXICO, Campeche, Calakmul, Balamku. Paratypes: 7 males, 5 females (IEXA, UNAM,). MEXICO, Campeche, Calakmul, Balamku.
carinatus Mayorga & Cervantes, 2005
Amnestus carinatus Mayorga & Cervantes, 2005. J. New York Entomol. Soc. 113:167–168. Holotype: male (UNAM). MEXICO, Chiapas, Reserva del Ocote. Paratypes: 5 males, 8 females (UNAM). MEX- ICO, Chiapas, Reserva del Ocote.
ficus Mayorga & Cervantes, 2001
Amnestus ficus Mayorga & Cervantes, 2001. J. New York Entomol. Soc. 109:394–399.
Holotype: male (UNAM) MEXICO, Veracruz, Actopan, Estación Biológica La Mancha. Paratypes: 1 male, 1 female in each one of the following institutions (AMNH, BMNH, CASC, UCBC, UNAM, USNM); MEXICO, Veracruz, Actopan, Estación Biológica La Mancha; 48 males, 58 females, 557 nymphs (IEXA) MEXICO, Chiapas, Guerrero, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz.
lenkoi Froeschner, 1975
Amnestus lenkoi Froeschner, 1975. J. Kansas Ent. Soc. 48:105, 106–107. Holotype: male (IBSP) BRAZIL, São Paulo, Barueri.
henryi Mayorga & Cervantes, 2009
Amnestus henryi Mayorga & Cervantes, 2009. Zootaxa 2311:22–25.
Holotype: male (NMNH) GUATEMALA, Alta Verapaz, Lanquin, Cueva Lanquin. Paratypes: 1 males, 5 females (UNAM, NMNH) GUATEMALA, Alta Verapaz, Lanquin, Cueva Lanquin.
obscurus Mayorga & Cervantes, 2005
Amnestus obscurus Mayorga & Cervantes, 2005. J. New York Entomol. Soc. 113:168–169. Holotype: male (UNAM) MEXICO, Veracruz, San Andrés Tuxtlas. Paratypes: 3 males (IEXA, UNAM) MEX- ICO, Veracruz, San Andrés Tuxtlas.
pequinus Froeschner, 1975
Amnestus pequinus Froeschner, 1975. J. Kansas Ent. Soc. 48:106, 107–108. Holotype: male (IBSP) BRAZIL, São Paulo, Barueri.
rugosus Mayorga & Cervantes, 2005
Amnestus rugosus Mayorga & Cervantes, 2005. J. New York Entomol. Soc. 113:169–170. Holotype: male (UNAM) MEXICO, Chiapas, Tenejapa. Paratypes: 15 males, 14 females (IEXA, UNAM,) MEX- ICO, Chiapas, Tenejapa, Ojo de Yashanal.
sinuosus Mayorga & Cervantes, 2005
Amnestus sinuosus Mayorga & Cervantes, 2005. J. New York Entomol. Soc. 113:170–171. Holotype: male (UNAM) MEXICO, Veracruz, San Andrés Tuxtla. Paratypes: 25 males, 28 females (BMNH, IEXA, USNM) MEXICO, Veracruz, San Andrés Tuxtla.
zacki Mayorga & Cervantes, 2009
Amnestus zacki Mayorga & Cervantes, 2009. Zootaxa 2311:20–21.
Holotype: male (WSUC) GUATEMALA, Suchitepequez, Finca los Tarrales: 14°31.37’N 91°08.17’W. Paratypes: 29 males, 33 females (IEXA, UNAM, UVGC). GUATEMALA, Suchitepequez, Finca los Tarrales. PARA- GUAY, Caaguazú, Pastoreo; Asunción.
description: Published as part of A, Magnanelli Marco & Coscarón, Maria Del Carmen, 2011, Burrower bugs described after the Cydnidae of the Western – Hemisphere catalogue 1960 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae), pp. 57-63 in Zootaxa 2766 on pages 58-59, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201379