Incitatus primus, (Incitatus)

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 : 74

primus (Incitatus) Distant 1908: 453–454. [ Fig. 163 ]

Original data: “ ♁”; “ Hab. Dikran Valley (Coll. Dist.).” [syntype (s)]

LECTOTYPE ♀ (designated by Thomas 1994: 186): purple-margined lectotype disc; red-margined type [H. T.] disc; “ Assam.” [“ Dikran Valley ”(probably the Dikrong Valley) is located in the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh (where the Dikrong River has its source) and Assam]; “ Incitatus primus type Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “Distant Coll. 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592155”. Fourth and fifth right antennomeres, left middle leg, and posterior legs missing (one leg glued on the first label) ( Fig. 163 ).

Current status: Martinina prima ( Distant, 1908) (see Thomas 1994: 186).

Note: Strangely, Distant (1908: 454) indicated that he was describing the male, yet the specimen that he marked as type in the collection is a female. Nevertheless, it matches the one in Distant’s description. Indeed, it is lacking its posterior legs and Distant had figured them in dotted lines and also, it measures 15 mm as mentioned by Distant; females are usually bigger than males and we reckon that had Distant had a male, he would have given a smaller measurement. Thomas (1994: 186) concurred with us concerning the sex of the only specimen when he mentioned: “ holotype, female (BM[NH]).” Either Distant made an error when stating the sex of the specimen or the wrong symbol was used in the typesetting process. By referring to this very specimen as the holotype, Thomas actually designated it as lectotype by inference of “the holotype ” ( ICZN 1999: Art. 74.6).

Figures

FIGURES 161–168. Type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 161, Platynopus polygraphus; 162, Strachia praecipua; 163, Incitatus primus; 164–165, Oplomus pulcher; 166, Platynopus purpurascens; 167, Strachia pyrophila; 168, Strachia reciproca. Scale bars: 4 mm.