Ochterus bidentatus Schell, 1943

Kment, Petr, Carapezza, Attilio & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2020, Taxonomic catalogue of the family Ochteridae with description of Ochterus papaceki sp. nov. from Socotra Island and Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1), pp. 23-64 : 36

Ochterus bidentatus Schell, 1943

Ochterus bidentatus Schell, 1943a: 32 , 35 (key to species, illustration). LECTOTYPE (designated by SCHELL 1943b: 44, as holotype):, Peru: ‘Vic. San Pedro’ (SEMC).

Ochterus bidentatus SCHELL (1943b) : 44 (original description, differential diagnosis); DRAKE (1952): 74 (checklist); HECKMAN (2011): 462 –463 (key to species, illustration).

Distribution. Neotropical Region: South America: Peru ( SCHELL 1943b, DRAKE 1952, NIESER & CHEN 1992).

Note. The revision of American Ochterus including the description of O. bidentatus was published divided in two parts, the first published in January 1943 ( SCHELL 1943a) and the second in April 1943 ( SCHELL 1943b). The species was first introduced in the key, which is sufficient to make it available ( ICZN 1999: Art. 13.1.1), without any mention of type specimens ( SCHELL 1943a: 32), while the original description including the holotype designation appeared in the second part ( SCHELL 1943b: 44). As a holotype is defined as ‘the single specimen upon which a new nominal species-group taxon is based in the original publication’ ( ICZN 1999: Art. 73.1), in this case, the subsequently designated ‘holotype’ must be considered the lectotype according to ICZN (1999: Art. 74.5).