Platynopus semiscitus, (Platynopus)

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 : 78

semiscitus (Platynopus) Walker 1867a: 129. [ Figs 182–183 ]

Original data: “ a. Gilolo. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq.” [holotype]

HOLOTYPE ♀: red-margined disc; green-margined type disc; “Gil.”; “21. PLATYNOPUS SEMISCITUS .”; “NHMUK 010592433”. Left antenna missing; left humeral angle broken ( Fig. 182 ).

NON-TYPE ♀: “ Platynopus semiscitus Walker’s catal.”; “Saunders 65. 13”; “Bac”; “NHMUK 010937665”. Fourth and fifth left and right antennomeres missing ( Fig. 183 ) .

Current status: Montrouzierellus laetus (Walker, 1867) (synonymised by Distant 1900a: 63; see Kirkaldy 1909: 11; Thomas 1994: 187).

Notes: Walker had noted: “It has more affinity to P. dotatus than to P. laetus , and the three may perhaps be considered as varieties of one species.” Indeed, Distant (1900a: 63) synonymised Walker’s three species. For explanations concerning the extra specimen listed above, not mentioned in Walker’s (1867a) catalogue under this name, see above under P. dotatus ).

Figures

FIGURES 177–184. Type and non-type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 177, Podisus sculptus; 178, Bodetria scutellaris; 179, Platynopus scutellatus; 180–181, Mormidea semialba; 182–183, Platynopus semiscitus; 184, Platynopus silvaticus. Scale bars: 4 mm.