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.
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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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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5232.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5232.1.1
1175-5326
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dallasi
(
Macrorhaphis
)
Schouteden 1905: 181–182
. [
Fig. 47
]
Original data
: “
♀
”; “
Habitat
:
Madagascar
: Forêt Tanala. (Mus.
Paris
).” [
syntype
(s)]
NON-TYPE ♁: rectangular orange
allotype
label; “INSTITUT SCIENTIFIQUE
MADAGASCAR
”; “Perinet”; “
Macrorhaphis dallasi SCHOUTEDEN
♁
G. Schmitz
det. 1976”; “
ALLOTYPUS
Macrorhaphis dallasi
♁”; “Brit.Mus. 1965-338”; “NHMUK 010937294”. Specimen carded, fourth and fifth right antennomeres missing (
Fig. 47
)
.
Current status
:
Macrorhaphis
(
Macrorhaphis
)
dallasi
Schouteden, 1905
(See
Schmitz 1976: 371
, for latest subgeneric placement)
Notes
: This specimen labelled by Schmitz as “
ALLOTYPUS
” (see above) cannot be a type as its data is not matching that of the original description (the species was described from the female only and Perinet is more to the north than the area that is usually thought of as the Tanala country). Furthermore,
Day (1964: 559)
explained that the large collection of Madagascan
Pentatomidae
received from Dr. P. Malzy was one of undetermined specimens specifically sent for identification; it could not have contained types. It is, however, clear that
Schmitz (1976: 371)
perceived the word “
ALLOTYPUS
” as referring not only to the type of the opposite sex designated in the original description but also as the first, ulteriorly collected, example of the opposite sex to that already known for the species. A female
syntype
for the species and a female
holotype
for its
variety are
reported in Paris (
Maldès & Pluot-Sigwalt 2004: 25–26
).