Podisus falcatus, (Podisus)

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

falcatus (Podisus) Distant 1889: 318. [ Fig. 62 ]

Original data: “ Hab. GUATEMALA, San Gerónimo (Champion).” [syntype (s)]

LECTOTYPE ♀ (designated by Thomas 1992: 80): purple-margined lectotype disc; red-margined type disc; “ S. Geronimo, Guatemala, Champion.”; “B. C. A., Hem. I. Podisus falcatus .”; “NHMUK 010592322”. Specimen well preserved ( Fig. 62 ).

Current status: Podisus falcatus Distant, 1889 .

Note: Thomas (1992: 80) explained: “The type of Podisus falcatus , a female, was located in the British Museum (Natural History). It is labeled: (a) “Type,” (b) “S. Geronimo, Guatemala, Champion,” (c) “B.C.A. Hem. I. Podisus falcatus .”.” From Distant’s original description, we do not know whether Distant had one or more specimens, nor the sex. We have found only one specimen in the collection but we cannot be sure it was the only one Distant had. By giving its labels data 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.