Podisus thomasi, (Podisus), 2021

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 : 84

thomasi (Podisus) Lemaître, Roell & Brugnera, 2021b: 578 . [ Figs 144 , 203 ]

Original data: “ Holotype. ♁ Labels: “VENEZUELA: Mérida Las Cruces 9 July 1986 R.S. Miller colr.”; “B.M. 1991—55”; “ J. E. Eger Collection ”; “ NEOTYPE ARMA PALLIPES ( DALLAS 1851) Desig. D. B. Thomas ”; “NHMUK 010592332” ( Figs 13–15 ). ( NHMUK) Paratypes. [...] ECUADOR: Imbabura, Paramba , 3500m, IV-1997, Rosenberg col., ♁ ( NHMUK); [...].” [Holotype and paratype male in NHMUK]

HOLOTYPE ♁: red-margined holotype disc; “ VENEZUELA: Mérida Las Cruces 9 July 1986 R.S. Miller colr.”; “B.M. 1991-55”; “J. E. Eger collection”; “ NEOTYPE ARMA PALLIPES ( DALLAS 1851) Desig. D. B. Thomas. ”; “ Neotype set aside by Roell et al. 2021”; “NHMUK 010592332”. Specimen well preserved ( Fig. 144 ). (see also the entry for “ pallipes (Arma) ”)

PARATYPE ♁: “Paramba 3500’. IV. 97. dry season. (Rosenberg).”; “ Ecuador. Rosenberg. 99-104.”; “NHMUK 010938891”. Third to fourth left antennomeres missing, left hemelytron damaged ( Fig. 203 ) .

Current status: Podisus thomasi Lemaître, Roell & Brugnera, 2021

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.

FIGURES 201–208. Type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 201–202, Platynopus tenellus; 203, Podisus thomasi, 204, Cantheconidea thomsoni; 205–208, Mecosoma thoracata. Scale bars: 4 mm.

FIGURES 9–16. Type and non-type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 9, Podisus amulae; 10, Stiretrus annulatus; 11, Asopus annulipes; 12–13, Canthecona annulipes; 14, Podisus atitlanensis; 15, Platynopus badius; 16, Oplomus basalis. Scale bars: 4 mm.