Oplomus violaceus, (Oplomus)

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 : 94

violaceus (Oplomus) Dallas 1851: 85–86. [ Fig. 229 ]

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

LECTOTYPE ♀ (designated by Thomas 1992: 59): purple-margined lectotype disc; red-margined type disc; “Columbia/46 20”;“14. OPLOMUS VIOLACEUS ,”; “a”; “NHMUK 010592402”.Fourth and fifth right antennomeres, second to fifth left antennomeres, and right posterior leg missing ( Fig. 229 ).

Current status: Oplomus salamandra (Burmeister, 1835) (synonymised to Oplomus tripustulatus Fabricius by Stål 1870: 29, as Var. n; see Distant 1880: 31; Thomas 1992: 59, with valid current name as O. salamandra (Burmeister)) .

Notes: Thomas (1992: 59) explained: “The female type of Oplomus violaceus Dallas was located in the British Museum (Natural History). It is labeled: (a) “Type,” (b) “ Colombia,” (c) “ Oplomus violaceus .” The specimen is metallic purplish in color.” From Dallas’s original description, we do not know whether Dallas had one or more specimens, only the sex. Walker (1867a: 121) listed only one specimen with corresponding data and we have found only one specimen in the collection but cannot be sure it was the only one Dallas had. By giving its labels data, describing it and calling the specimen “the […] type”, Thomas designated it as the lectotype by inference of “the type” ( ICZN 1999: Art. 74.6). As shown in Thomas (1992: 59), the name tripustulatus was preoccupied and so was that of tibialis , the next junior synonym, the name of the species therefore became salamandra Burmeister , the next non-preoccupied junior synonym.

Figures

FIGURES 225–232. Type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 225, Gilva varipes; 226, Arma ventralis; 227, Oplomus ventralis; 228, Jalloides versicolor; 229, Oplomus violaceus; 230–231, Oechalia virescens; 232, Oechalia virgula. Scale bars: 4 mm.