Dorycoris pavoninus (Westwood, 1837)

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 (Asopus) Germar 1838: 187–188 . [ Fig. 11 ]

Original data: “ Caput Bonae Spei [Cape of Good Hope ]”. [syntype (s)]

SYNTYPE ♀: blue-margined syntype disc; “C.G.H/ 42 77”; “1162”; “a”; Asopus annulipes Germar det.”; “ Cape Gd. Hope. 42-77. Ex. coll. Drège.No. 1162”; “ Zicrona pavonina Walker’s catal.”; “NHMUK 010936229”. Right posterior leg missing ( Fig. 11 ) .

Current status: Dorycoris pavoninus (Westwood, 1837)

(synonymised by Dallas 1851: 108, to Zicrona pavonina ; see Schouteden 1905: 134 for placement in Dorycoris ).

Notes: The first author did not locate any syntypes of A. annulipes in MFNB, Berlin, where some other types of Germar are deposited. A further four specimens, however, are deposited at the ZMD, Lviv. Indeed, at the turn of the century, part of Germar’s entomological collection was purchased by Count Mniszek for this museum. Ultra high-resolution images of the ten large wooden boxes are displayed on the Zoological Museum’s website through the free Zoomify™ plug-in ( Anonymous 2019). Holovachov et al. (2014) documented Germar’s collection and detailed their imaging procedure. From the image on the website only, it would have been impossible to assess the type status of the specimens. Fortunately, upon our request, a curator kindly provided images of the specimens and their labels; the three specimens on the left may be considered syntypes but the specimen on the extreme right is a later addition as, according to its label, it was collected in the Comoro Islands.

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.