Canthecona annulipes, (Canthecona) Dallas 1851: 90

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 : 21

annulipes (Canthecona) Dallas 1851: 90–91 . [ Figs 12–13 ]

Original data: “ ♀ ”. “a. S. Africa. Presented by the Earl of Derby.” [syntype (s)]

SYNTYPE ♀: blue-margined syntype disc; “Int Africa / 4319”; “ Canthecona figurata Walker’s catal.”; “a”; “NHMUK 010747805”. Fourth and fifth right antennomeres, left antenna, and right middle and posterior legs missing. Abdomen damaged, genital plates disjointed ( Fig. 12 ).

NON-TYPE [formerly considered as type] ♁: “Int. S afr / 5476”; “6. CANTHECONA ANNULIPES ,”; “NHMUK 010592165”. Right antenna, fourth and fifth antennomeres, and posterior legs missing ( Fig. 13 ).

Current status: Afrius purpureus (Westwood, 1837) (synonymised by Roell et al. 2019: 25).

Notes: Walker (1867a: 131) listed only one specimen from the same provenance as that in the original description of this species. It is likely that Dallas had just one specimen (especially as Dallas stated only one measurement and noted: “the basal joint and the apex of the third black (rest wanting)” [emphasis ours]) but we cannot be sure. Thomas (1994) did not mention having seen the type, we therefore consider the specimen a syntype.

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.