Nomenclatorial changes in Oriental Lygaeinae seed bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeidae) Author Kondorosy, El Ő D Author Lyal, Christopher Henry Coutts Author Webb, Michael Donald text Zootaxa 2006 1383 45 56 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.273666 fc930b15-be88-468d-b595-23fffafe76d9 1175-5326 273666 Lygaeus maculatus Dallas Lygaeus maculatus Dallas, 1852 : 545 –546. Graptostethus maculatus (Dallas) ; Distant, 1901 : 537 ; Slater, 1964 : 53 . New placement: Tropidothorax maculatus (Dallas) , comb. nov. Material examined. Syntype ɗ, with the following labels: 1. Museum circular redmargined label with “ TYPE ” pr; 2. “N. India ” hwr, on reverse “48. 134” hwr [ BMNH register information for 1848 134 reads: “170 Rhynchota N. India (Almorah) Bought of Mr Warwick Part of Boyes collection - a selection £45”]; 3. “108. Lygaeus maculatus ,” pr (cut out from the catalogue of Walker, 1872 ). Syntype Ψ, with the following labels: 1. “E. Ind .” hwr, on reverse “43. 43.” hwr; 2. “ Lygaeus ” pr, “ maculatus ” hwr, “Walker’s catal.” pr. Remarks. Originally described from “a. N. India . From Capt. Boys’s Collection.” and “b. India . From Archdeacon Clerk’s Collection.”. This species has a similar structure of the pronotum and scutellum to Tropidothorax species (see Lygaeus simla Distant ) and is very similar to T. autolycus (Distant) , but the latter species is slightly larger and has some differences in coloration.