Anasida orientalis, (Anasida), 1910

Roell, Talita, Lemaître, Valérie A., Webb, Michael D. & Campos, Luiz A., 2023, An annotated and illustrated Type Catalogue of the predacious Shieldbugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) in the Collection of the Natural History Museum, London, Zootaxa 5232 (1), pp. 1-105 : 66

orientalis (Anasida) Distant 1910: 195–196. [ Figs 138–140 ]

Original data: “ ♁”; “ ♀ ”; “ Hab. Bombay Province; Dharwar. [...] found by Dr. Harold Mann among stones in a railway cutting.” [syntypes (male and female)]

SYNTYPE ♁: blue-margined syntype disc; red-margined type [H. T.] disc; “Dharwar (Mann)”; “ Anasida orientalis type Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “Distant coll 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592344”. Fifth right antennomere missing ( Fig. 138 ).

SYNTYPE ♀: blue-margined syntype disc; “Dharwar (Mann)”; “ Distant coll 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592345”. Antennae missing ( Fig. 139 ) .

SYNTYPE ♁:blue-margined syntype disc;“Dharwar(Mann)”;“ Anasida orientalis Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “NHMUK 010592346”. Fourth and fifth right antennomeres, and second to fifth left antennomeres missing ( Fig. 140 ).

Current status: Anasida orientalis Distant, 1910 .

Note: Thomas (1994: 160) stated: “Distant’s male Holotype in BM[NH] was examined.” We know that Distant had at least two specimens as he mentions male and female. The mention of “Distant’s male Holotype in BM[NH]” can therefore not constitute a valid designation of lectotype by inference of “ holotype ” (see ICZN 1999: Art. 74.5). We have found three specimens, 2 males and 1 female; we consider them all syntypes.

Figures

FIGURES 137–144. Type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 137, Neoglypsus opulentus; 138–140, Anasida orientalis; 141, Canthecona ornatula; 142, Stiretrus ornatus; 143–144, Arma pallipes. Scale bars: 4 mm.