Mecosoma, Dallas, 1851

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 : 39

florida ( Mecosoma ) Distant 1890c: Liv.

Original data: “ Hab. Niam-Niam (Bohndorff).”; “belonging to the National Museum of Brussels ”. [syntype (s)]

Current status: Mecosoma floridum Distant, 1890 (see Schouteden 1905: 185; Schouteden 1907: 63; Schouteden 1909: 66; Villiers 1954: 230; Thomas 1994: 186).

Note: Synave (1969: 11) recorded the presence of the holotype in the Brussels Museum (IRSNB). As nothing in the original description indicates that there was only one specimen, we accept Synave’s mention of the holotype published before 2000 as a lectotype designation by inference of “ holotype ” ( ICZN 1999: Art. 74.6).