Taxonomic corrections to species of Rhyparochromidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) described by Carl Peter Thunberg
Author
Kondorosy, Előd
Author
Rédei, Dávid
Author
Mejlon, Hans
text
Zootaxa
2014
3838
5
567
574
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3838.5.5
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1175-5326
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Raglius alboacuminatus alboacuminatus
(
Goeze, 1778
)
(
Figs. 6–7
)
Cimex
albo-acuminatus
Goeze, 1778
: 266
. For
Cimex
no.
29 in
Geoffroy, 1762
: 450
.
Syntype
(s):
France
: “environs de Paris”; lost (
Péricart 2001: 208
).
Cimex caffer
Thunberg, 1784
: 59
.
Syntype
(s): Caput bonae spei [=
South Africa
: Cape of Good Hope] (in error); depository not stated. Synonymized by
Stål (1867: 382)
, with
pedestris
;
confirmed subjective synonym
.
Lygaeus pedestris
Panzer, 1797
: 14
.
Syntype
(s):
Germany
; depository not stated. Synonymized by
Reuter (1885: 228)
.
A complete list of synonyms of
R. alboacuminatus
was provided by
Péricart (2001)
.
Selected references.
Thunberg (1822a)
: 3 (
Alydus caffer
, diagnosis),
Stål (1867)
: 382 (
Beosus
, synonymy),
Reuter (1885)
: 228 (
Pachymerus
, keyed, synonymy),
Stichel (1935)
: 354 (generic position),
Slater (1964)
: 1310 (catalogue, distribution, bibliography);
Péricart (1999)
: 271 (redescription, figures, intraspecific variability, immatures, bionomics, records, distribution, bibliography),
Péricart (2001)
: 208 (catalogue).
Type
material examined.
Cimex caffer
.
Lectotype
(present designation) ♂ (
Fig. 6
): “Uppsala Univ. Zool.
Mus
. / Thunbergsaml. nr. 17527 /
Alydus caffer
/
Mus
. Thunb
. TYP” [red, printed]; “
LECTOTYPUS
/
Cimex caffer
/
Thunberg, 1784
/ desig. Kondorosy, 2013” [with red frame, printed]; “(
Alydus
) /
caffer
/
Mus
. Thunb.” [handwritten (
Fig. 7
)]; deposited in
UPSZ
.
Discussion.
The
lectotype
of
Cimex caffer
(
Fig. 6
) is admittedly conspecific with
R. alboacuminatus
, therefore the synonymy proposed by
Stål (1867)
and equivocally followed by subsequent authors is confirmed.