Podisus insignis, (Moyara), 1880

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 (Moyara) Distant 1898: 314–315. [ Fig. 86 ]

Original data: “ Hab. Nyasaland, Zomba (Dr. P. Rendall).” [syntype (s)]

SYNTYPE ♀: blue-margined syntype disc; red-margined type [H. T.] disc; “ Zomba Brit. Centr Afr. (P. Rendall)”; “ insignis Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “Distant Coll. 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592142”. Specimen well preserved ( Fig. 86 ) .

Current status: Leptolobus insignis ( Distant, 1898) (see Schouteden 1905: 172; Schouteden 1907: 17; Bergroth 1908: 181; Kirkaldy 1909: 29; Thomas 1994: 183).

Note: Thomas (1994: 183) stated “ Type specimen in BM(NH)”. Similarly, we have found only one.

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.