Arma tincta, (Arma)

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 : 85

tincta (Arma) Dallas 1851: 97. [Fig. 212]

Original data: “ ♀ ”; “a. Columbia. From M. Goudot’s Collection. ” [syntype (s)]

LECTOTYPE ♀ (designated by Distant 1880: 37): blue-margined syntype disc; red-margined type disc; “Columbia / 46 20”; “ Bogota ”; “18. ARMA TINCTA ,”; “a”; “NHMUK 010592335”. Specimen well preserved (Fig. 212).

Current status: Podisus tinctus ( Dallas, 1851) (see Distant 1880: 37).

Note: Walker (1867a: 137) listed only one specimen, but it does not mean that Dallas just had one (although it is likely). Thomas (1992: 86) mentioned “A female type specimen was located in the British Museum (Natural History). It is labeled: (a) “Type,” (b) “Bogata,” [sic!] (c) “49 [sic!] 20,” (d) “18. Arma tincta .”” He used the indefinite article and did not imply having seen “the” type. Taking the foregoing remarks into account, we would have considered the specimen a syntype had not Distant (1880: 37) called it “the type”. Distant stated: “The Mexican specimen figured is paler in hue than the type, and differs in the absence of the testaceous tinting.” [emphasis ours]. We accept Distant’s mention of “the type” as a valid lectotype designation before 2000 ( ICZN 1999: Art. 74.5); his marking the specimen by a red-margined “Type” disc as he arranged the 63 Pentatomidae drawers in 1899–1900 ( Hampson 1906: 627) confirms which specimen was meant.