Oplomus biarcuatus

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 : 22

biarcuatus (Oplomus) Walker 1867a: 121 . [ Fig. 17 ]

Original data: “ a. Vera Cruz. From M. Sallé’s collection.” [holotype]

HOLOTYPE ♀: red-margined holotype disc; green-margined type disc; “Vera Cruz / 54 66”; “17. OPLOMUS BIARCUATUS .”; “NHMUK 010592407”. Left middle leg and right posterior leg missing. Genital plates disjointed ( Fig. 17 ).

Current status: Oplomus mundus Stål, 1862 (synonymised to Oplomus rutilus Dallas by Distant 1880: 31; see Distant 1900a: 63; Schouteden 1907: 35; Thomas (1992: 61) synonymised Oplomus biarcuatus to Oplomus mundus , while explaining how to separate O. mundus and O. marginalis —now O. festivus — with which he had synonymised O. rutilus ).

Figures

FIGURES 17–24. Type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 17, Oplomus biarcuatus; 18–20, Damarius bicolor; 21, Platynopus bimaculatus; 22, Canthecona binotata; 23, Asopus binotatus; 24; Platynopus borneensis. Scale bars: 4 mm.