Podisus, Herrich-Schaffer, 1853

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 : 75

rubro-maculatus ( Podisus ) Distant 1880: 41.

Original data: “ Hab. Mexico ( Belimek ; Mus . Vind. Caes.).” [syntype (s)]

Current status: Tylospilus acutissimus ( Stål, 1870) (synonymised by Phillips 1983: 136; see Thomas 1992: 118).

Notes: The types are not deposited in NHMUK but, as the original description stated in NHMW (historically referred to as “ Mus . Vind. Caes.”). In a personal communication, Dr Herbert Zettel (NHMW) informed us of the following: “There are five specimens in the collection which were collected by Bilimex [sic!] in Mexico in 1871, three with identical locality labels, the two others with slightly expanded information (Orizaba and Cuernavacca). Only one specimen, the photographed male, has an identification label, and it is the one illustrated in BCA (unique colour pattern). If the five specimens are regarded as syntypes, this specimen is the candidate for a lectotype.” Phillips (1983: 73) further detailed the specimen and its labels. Phillips’s (1983) thesis remained unpublished; her new synonymies, however, were validated by Thomas as was her new species Podisus brevispinus , which as Rider (2012: 324) noted, should carry the following authorship: Phillips, 1992.