Stiretrus anchorago ( Fabricius, 1775 )

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

annulatus (Stiretrus) Distant 1889: 317 . [ Fig. 10 ]

Original data: “ Hab. MEXICO, Tepic (Schumann).” [syntype (s)]

LECTOTYPE ♀ (designated by Thomas 1992: 110): purple-margined lectotype disc; red-margined type disc; “Tepic, Mex. July. Schumann.”; “ Stiretrus annulatus Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “NHMUK 010592389”. Left antenna, fourth and fitfth right antennomeres, and right anterior leg missing ( Fig. 10 ).

Current status: Stiretrus anchorago ( Fabricius, 1775) (synonymised by Thomas 1992: 109–110).

Note: Thomas (1992: 110) explained: “The type of Stiretrus annulatus Distant was located in the British Museum (Natural History). It is labeled: (a) “Type,” (b) “ Stiretrus annulatus ,” (c) “Tepic, Mex. July, Schumann.” The specimen is a female and is metallic blue in color.” 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 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.