Heteroscelis bimaculata (Walker, 1867)

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

bimaculatus (Platynopus) Walker 1867a: 124 . [ Fig. 21 ]

Original data: “ a. Petropolis , Rio Janeiro. Presented by the Rev. H. Clark and by J. Gray, Esq.” [holotype]

HOLOTYPE ♁: red-margined holotype disc; green-margined type disc; “PETROPOLIS Feb. y 1857. J. Gray. ”; “6. PLATYNOPUS BIMACULATUS .”; “NHMUK 010592394”. Specimen carded ( Fig. 21 ).

Current status: Heteroscelis bimaculata (Walker, 1867)

(see Distant 1900a: 55; Pirán 1961: 87; Thomas 1992: 49).

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.