Leptolobus insignis, (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 : 48

insignis (Podisus) Distant 1880: 39. [ Fig. 87 ]

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

LECTOTYPE ♁ (designated by Thomas 1992: 98): purple-margined lectotype disc; red-margined type disc; “San Geronimo Verapaz”; “ insignis Dist. (type) [Distant’s handwriting]”; “NHMUK 010592324”. Fourth and fifth left antennomeres, and right posterior leg missing ( Fig. 87 ).

Current status: Podisus insignis Distant, 1880 .

Note: Thomas (1992: 98) explained: “I examined the male type of Podisus insignis . It is located in the British Museum (Natural History) and is labeled: a) “Type,” b) “ insignis Dist. (type),” c) “San Geronimo, Verapaz.”. 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 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 81–88. Type and non-type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 81–82, Strachia hamata; 83, Canthecona humeralis; 84, Bodetria indecora; 85, Macrorhaphis infuscata; 86, Moyara insignis; 87, Podisus insignis; 88, Canthecona insularis. Scale bars: 4 mm.