Oplomus salamandra (Burmeister, 1835)

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 : 29

chrysomelas (Oplomus ) Walker 1867a: 121–122. [ Fig. 33 ]

Original data: “ a. Cuenca, Province of Equador. From Mr. Fraser’s collection.” [holotype]

HOLOTYPE ♁: red-margined holotype disc; green-margined type disc; “Cuenca / 58 132”; “18. OPLOMUS CHRYSOMELAS .”; “NHMUK 010592403”. Third to fifth right and left antennomeres, left wings, and abdomen missing (the latter is glued on a card) ( Fig. 33 ).

Current status: Oplomus salamandra (Burmeister, 1835)

(synonymised to Oplomus tripustulatus Fabricius by Stål 1870: 28, as Var. c; see Distant 1880: 31; Distant 1900a: 63; Schouteden 1907: 35; Kirkaldy 1909: 8, as Oplomus salamandra ; Thomas 1992: 59).

Note. As shown in Thomas (1992: 59), the name tripustulatus was preoccupied and so was that of tibialis Fabricius , the next junior synonym; the name of the species therefore became salamandra Burmeister , the next non-preoccupied junior synonym.

Figures

FIGURES 33–40. Type and non-type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 33, Oplomus chrysomelas; 34, Hoploxys coeruleus; 35, Canthecona cognata; 36–39, Arma colorata; 40, Canthecona concinna. Scale bars: 4 mm.