Podisus amulae, Herrich-Schaffer, 1853

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 : 20

amulae (Podisus ) Distant 1889: 319. [ Fig. 9 ]

Original data: “ Hab. MEXICO, Amula in Guerrero (H. H. Smith).” [syntype (s)]

LECTOTYPE ♁ (designated by Thomas 1992: 84): purple-margined lectotype disc; red-margined type disc; “ Amula, Guerrero, 6000ft. Aug. H. H. Smith. ”; “ Podisus amulae Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “NHMUK 010592319”. Specimen well preserved ( Fig. 9 ).

Current status: Podisus congrex (Stål, 1862) (synonymised by Thomas 1992: 83–84).

Note: Thomas (1992: 84) explained: “The type of Podisus amulae , a male, was located in the British Museum (Natural History). It is labeled: a) “Type,” b) “ Podisus amulae Distant ,” c) “Amula Guat. 600 ft. Aug. H.H. Smith.”” 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 (albeit unprecisely—“Guat” for “ Guerrero ” and “600” for “6000”) and calling the specimen “the type”, Thomas designated it as the lectotype by inference of “the type” ( ICZN 1999: Art. 74.6).

Figures

FIGURES 9–16. Type and non-type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 9, Podisus amulae; 10, Stiretrus annulatus; 11, Asopus annulipes; 12–13, Canthecona annulipes; 14, Podisus atitlanensis; 15, Platynopus badius; 16, Oplomus basalis. Scale bars: 4 mm.