Asopus binotatus

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 : 26

binotatus (Asopus) Walker 1867a:144–145 . [ Fig. 23 ]

Original data: “ a. Brazil. From Mr. Vigors’ collection.” [holotype]

HOLOTYPE ♀: red-margined holotype disc; green-margined type disc; “ Brazil.”; “ Brazil as a locality is erroneous. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “2. ASOPUS BINOTATUS .”; “59. 57 Vigors’ Coll.”; “NHMUK 010592411”. Right antenna, fourth and fifth left antennomeres, and left posterior leg missing ( Fig. 23 ).

Current status: Cermatulus nasalis nasalis (Westwood, 1837) (synonymised by Distant 1900a: 55, 63; see Schouteden 1907: 67; Woodward 1953: 317–318).

Note: Walker (1867a: 144–145) described this species from Brazil, but Distant (1900a: 55, as well as on the label) indicated that the locality mentioned by Walker was erroneous. Thomas (1994: 172) mentioned this information as well.

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.