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.
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v.lemaitre@nhm.ac.uk
Author
Webb, Michael D.
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m.webb@nhm.ac.uk
Author
Campos, Luiz A.
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luiz.campos@ufrgs.br
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-02-03
5232
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1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5232.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5232.1.1
1175-5326
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acuta
(
Macrorhaphis
?)
Dallas 1851: 88
. [
Fig. 1
]
Original data
: “
♁”. “a.
Congo
.
Presented
by Sir John Richardson, M.D.” [
syntype
(s)]
.
SYNTYPE
♁: blue-margined
syntype
disc; red-margined type disc; rectangular orange label “
HOLOTYPUS
♁”; “
Congo
/ 43 56”; “2.
MACRORHAPHIS ACUTA
,”; “NHMUK 010592174”.
Carded
specimen; third to fifth left antennomeres, and fourth and fifth right antennomeres missing (
Fig. 1
)
.
Current status
:
Macrorhaphis
(
Megarhaphis
)
acuta
Dallas, 1851
(see
Schouteden 1907: 39
, for the subgeneric placement.).
Note
:
Walker (1867a: 129)
listed a unique specimen of Dallas’s species and it is likely that Dallas just had one (especially as Dallas had stated only one measurement and noted: “Antennae pale brown, with the apex of the third and fourth joints pitchy (
fifth wanting
).” [emphasis ours]. Still, we cannot be certain and therefore consider the specimen a
syntype
, although G. Schmitz had placed a
holotype
male label on the specimen.
Thomas (1994: 185)
did not mention having seen the type under the material he examined.