Arma submarginata

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 : 83

submarginata ( Arna [sic!]) Walker 1867a: 139. [ Fig. 196 ]

Original data: “ a. Tejuca, Rio Janeiro. Presented by the Rev. H. Clark. ” [holotype]

HOLOTYPE ♀: red-margined holotype disc; green-margined type disc; “TEJUCA, Jany 1857. H. Clark.”; “37. ARNA [sic!] SUBMARGINATA.”; “NHMUK 010592338”. Fifth right antennomere, and fourth and fifth left antennomeres missing ( Fig. 196 ).

Current status: Podisus distinctus (Stål, 1860) (synonymised by Brugnera et al. 2020a: 548).

Note: Walker (1867a: 139) saw the difference with A. obscura (“The longer thoracic spines distinguish it from A. obscura ”), now a synonym of Podisus nigrispinus . Presumably, he did not know Telepta distincta Stål as he did not list any specimens in the collection of NHMUK. He nevertheless placed that species in the genus Arma ( Walker, 1867a: 137) .

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.