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
Graptostethus quadrisignatus
Distant
G
.
quadrisignatus
Distant, 1879
: 130
–131;
Slater, 1964
: 56
.
New placement:
senior synonym of
G. collaris
(
Breddin, 1907
)
,
syn. nov.
Material examined.
Lectotype
Ψ
Graptostethus quadrisignatus
Distant
, with the following labels: 1 Museum circular red-margined label with “
TYPE
” pr; 2. “N. Khasia
2500 to 3000m
(Chennel[?])” hwr; 3. “
quadrisignatus
type
Dist.” hwr; 4. “Distant Coll. 1911-383” pr; 5. “
Graptostethus quadrisignatus Distant.
Lectotype
(?) J. Péricart design. 1999.” hwr.
Paralectotype
Ψ
Graptostethus quadrisignatus
Distant
, with the following labels: 1. “N. Khasia
2500 to 3000m
(Chennel[?])” hwr; 2. “Distant Coll. 1911-383” pr.
Paralectotype
ɗ ditto except “
1500-2500m
”
Remarks.
Originally described from an unspecified number of specimens from “North Khasia hills,
1500 to 3000 feet
”. The
type
of this species has been compared by the senior author to that of
Pyrrhobaphus
(
Graptostethus
)
collaris
Breddin, 1907
, which is held in the Deutsches Entomologisches Institut (Eberswalde) (
Fig. 1
) and found to be identical.