Tynacantha splendens, (Tynacantha), 1889

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 : 79

splendens (Tynacantha) Distant 1889: 321. [ Fig. 193 ]

Original data: “ Hab. PANAMA, Bugaba (Champion).” [syntype (s)]

LECTOTYPE ♁ (designated by Thomas 1992: 123): purple-margined lectotype disc; red-margined type disc; “Bugaba, 800-1500ft. Champion. ”; “B.C.A., Hem. I. Tynacantha splendens Dist. ”; “NHMUK 010592342”. Right middle leg, and left posterior leg missing ( Fig. 193 ).

Current status: Tynacantha splendens Distant, 1889 .

Note: Thomas (1992: 123) explained: “I examined the type of Tynacantha splendens , a male, located in the British Museum (Natural History). It is labeled: (a) “Type,” (b) “B.C.A. Hem. I. Tynacantha splendens Dist. ,” (c) “Bugaba, 800-1500 ft. Champion.”” From Distant’s original description, we do not know whether Distant had one or more specimens, nor the sex. We have found only one specimen in the collection but cannot be sure it was the only one Distant had. By giving its labels data and calling the specimen “the type”, Thomas designated it as the lectotype by inference of “the type” ( ICZN 1999: Art. 74.6).

Figures

FIGURES 193–200. Type and non-type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 193, Tynacantha splendens; 194, Macrorhaphis spurcata; 195, Oplomus stellatus; 196, Arma submarginata; 197, Podisus congrex; 198–199, Podisus ventralis; 200, Platynopus tenellus. Scale bars: 4 mm.