Oplomus festivus, (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 : 39

festivus (Oplomus) Dallas 1851: 85. [ Fig. 63 ]

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

LECTOTYPE ♁ (designated by Thomas 1992: 60): purple-margined lectotype disc; red-margined type disc; “Columbia / 46 20”; “Magdelain, Janv -”; “13. OPLOMUS FESTIVUS ,”; “a”; “NHMUK 010592397”. Fifth right and left antennomeres, and middle and posterior legs missing ( Fig. 63 ).

Current status: Oplomus festivus Dallas, 1851 .

Notes: Thomas (1992: 60) explained: “The type of Oplomus festivus is a male, also located in the British Museum (Natural History). It is labeled: (a) “Type,” (b) “Magdalain, Jande [sic!],” (c) “ Oplomus festivus .” The specimen is metallic blue with red spots at the basal angles of the scutellum and on the midline of the pronotum.” From Dallas’s original description, we do not know whether Dallas had one or more specimens, only the sex: male. Walker (1867a: 121) listed one specimen 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).

Figures

FIGURES 57–64. Type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 57, Coryzorhaphis egeri; 58, Oplomus equestris; 59–60, Glypsus erubescens; 61, Strachia erythromela; 62, Podisus falcatus; 63, Oplomus festivus; 64, Strachia frontalis. Scale bars: 4 mm.