Canthecona grisea, (Canthecona)

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 : 43

grisea (Canthecona) Dallas 1851: 92–93. [ Fig. 78 ]

Original data: “ ♀ ”; “a. –––––. Presented by General Hardwicke.” [syntype (s)]

SYNTYPE ♀: blue-margined syntype disc; red-margined type disc; “Hardwicke Bequest”; “10. CANTHECONA GRISEA ,”; “178a”; “a”; “NHMUK 010592293”. Third to fifth right antennomeres, fifth left antennomere, right anterior leg, and left middle leg missing ( Fig. 78 ).

Current status: Picromerus griseus ( Dallas, 1851) (see Schouteden 1907: 25; Thomas 1994: 192).

Notes: Walker (1867a: 131) listed only one specimen; it is likely that Dallas just had one but we cannot be sure and therefore consider the specimen a syntype. The label “178a” refers to the first specimen on page 178 in the first volume of Adam White’s unpublished “Catalogue of Hemiptera ” (White, A., no date), more information is given there: White had determined the specimen as belonging to genus Halys and stated it was part of Hardwicke’s bequest. George Samouelle appears to have been instrumental in suggesting the engraving of copper plates to print out numerous donor labels for each specimen of a large collection, such as the Hardwicke’s bequest ( Anonymous, 1835: 278). For further informations on White’s Catalogue of Hemiptera and other early catalogues at the Museum, see Wheeler (1996).

Figures

FIGURES 73–80. Type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 73–74, Arma grandis; 75–77, Canthecona grandis; 78, Canthecona grisea; 79–80, Apateticus halys. Scale bars: 4 mm.