An annotated and illustrated Type Catalogue of the predacious Shieldbugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) in the Collection of the Natural History Museum, London Author Roell, Talita Author Lemaître, Valérie A. 0000-0003-4802-2711 v.lemaitre@nhm.ac.uk Author Webb, Michael D. 0000-0002-1312-6142 m.webb@nhm.ac.uk Author Campos, Luiz A. 0000-0001-5414-8746 luiz.campos@ufrgs.br text Zootaxa 2023 2023-02-03 5232 1 1 105 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5232.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5232.1.1 1175-5326 7609794 E7B67882-2148-49C5-9F09-D5CAA95A21D1 tabida ( Arma ) Signoret 1863: 544. [ Figs 197–199 ] Original data : “ Chile .” [ syntype (s)] NON-TYPE ♁: “Balzapamba (Ecuad.) R. Haensch S.”; “1903-322”; “NHMUK 010939527”. Left fourth and fifth antennomeres missing ( Fig. 197 ). NON-TYPE ♀ : “Balzapamba (Ecuad.) R. Haensch S.”; “Co-types Breddin. Purch. of Haensch Podisus tabidus Sign. ”; “1903-322”; NHMUK 010939525”. Left fourth and fifth antennomeres, and right fifth antennomere missing ( Fig. 198 ). NON-TYPE ♀ : “Balzapamba (Ecuad.) R. Haensch S.”; “BRIT. MUS .”; “ Podisus sp. (1-198)”; “NHMUK 010939526”. Left fourth and fifth antennomeres, right fifth antennomere, and left middle leg missing ( Fig. 199 ). Current status : Brontocoris tabidus (Signoret, 1863) (see Thomas 1992: 31 ). However, see “ Note ”. Note : Thomas (1992: 84–85) noted that he had located in the collection a pair of Ecuadorian specimens labeled as “cotypes” of Podisus tabidus (Signoret, 1863) , a male and a female which he identified as P . crassimargo (Stål, 1860) . We have actually found three such specimens in the collection, one male and two females . The first author identified the male as P . congrex (Stål, 1862) and the females were identified by Ricardo Brugnera (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul , UFRGS) as Podisus ventralis ( Dallas, 1851 ) . We can only share Thomas’s puzzlement as to the meaning of “cotypes”. Distant (1906: 32) had raised a doubt concerning the specimens purchased from Haensch in 1903, which “were specified as cotypes of some of the species described by Herr Breddin”. Here, Distant [?] had clearly determined the species as not one described by Breddin.