Procilia holosericea ( Dohrn, 1863 ) Rédei & Tsai, 2022

Rédei, Dávid & Tsai, Jing-Fu, 2022, A revision of Scutellera (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Scutelleridae), Zootaxa 5092 (1), pp. 1-40 : 29-30

Procilia holosericea ( Dohrn, 1863) , comb. nov.

( Figs. 73–76 )

Scutellera holosericea Dohrn, 1863: 347 . Syntype (s): [ Indonesia:] Java (in error); ZMPA!

Scutellera holosericea: Walker (1867: 16) (listed, distribution), Stål (1873: 31) (as of doubtful generic placement, listed, distribution), Lethierry & Severin (1893: 21) (as of doubtful generic placement, catalogue, distribution), Schouteden (1904: 23) (as of doubtful generic placement, catalogue, distribution), Kirkaldy (1909: 304) (catalogue, distribution), Tsai et al. (2011: 153) (as of doubtful identity, listed, distribution).

Remarks. Scutellera holosericea was described based on an unspecified number of specimens from Java ( Dohrn 1863). The species was omitted by subsequent authors except for taxonomic catalogues; most subsequent authors ( Stål 1873, Lethierry & Severin 1893, Schouteden 1904, Tsai et al. 2011) questioned its generic placement or listed it as a species of doubtful identity.A re-examination of a syntype ( Figs. 73–78 ) deposited in ZMPA concluded that the species belongs to the Afrotropical genus Procilia Stål, [1865] , therefore the type locality is declared as erroneous, and the combination Procilia holosericea ( Dohrn, 1863) , comb. nov., is tentatively proposed. The species is likely a junior synonym of P. morgani ( White, 1839) ; however, as we could not examine the type material of the latter species, moreover the genus Procilia is unrevised and currently we are unable to undertake its revision, we leave this problem for a future reviser.

Type material examined. Scutellera holosericea Dohrn, 1863 . Syntype: ♀ (?), “ Java \ Mus. Leyden” [hw, with pr black frame], “Type” [red, with pr black frame], “holosericea \ X Dohrn \ Java M.L.” [hw, with pr double black frame], “ Scutellera type. \ holosinica [sic] Dohrn” [hw], “Mus. Zool. Polonicum \ Warszawa \ 12/45”; pinned, right fore, left mid and hind legs, left fore and right mid tarsus, and tibia and tarsus of right hind leg lacking, terminalia missing, head with right scape glued to card and pinned with the specimen, left scape and pedicel glued to the same card; ZMPA ( Figs. 73–78 ) .

Figures

FIGURES 73–78. Scutellera holosericea Dohrn, 1863, a syntype and its labels. Fig. 73, dorsal view; Fig. 74, left lateral view; Fig. 75, right lateral view; Fig. 76, ventral view; Fig. 77, head and fragment of left antenna mounted on card; Fig. 78, labels. Scales in mm. © ZMPA.