Macrorhaphis infuscata, (Macrorhaphis)

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

infuscata (Macrorhaphis) Walker 1868: 531. [ Fig. 85 ]

Original data: “ a. Whydah. From Mr. Fraser’s collection.” [holotype]

HOLOTYPE ♀: red-margined holotype disc; green-margined type disc; “53 74”; “ MACRORHAPHIS INFUSCATA . ♀ sp. n. F. Walker 1868 ”; “G. Schmitz det. 1976 Macrorhaphis acuta DALLAS ”; “NHMUK 010592176”. Specimen carded; antennae and left legs missing; abdomen loose; genital plates inside a vial glass ( Fig. 85 ).

Current status: Macrorhaphis (Megarhaphis) acuta Dallas, 1851 (synonymised by Schouteden 1905: 177; see Schouteden 1907: 39, for the subgeneric placement.).

Note: Walker (1868) had noted: “This may be a variety of M. acuta , from which it is distinguished by the longer ventral spine.” Indeed, the species was later synonymised to M. acuta by Schouteden (1905).

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.