Cantheconidea javana ( Dallas, 1851 )

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 : 31

cognata (Canthecona) Distant 1882: 157 . [ Fig. 35 ]

Original data: “Hab.: Sumatra (Forbes).” [syntype (s)]

SYNTYPE ♀: blue-margined syntype disc; “Sumatra (Forbes)”; “ cognata Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]” “Distant Coll. 1911—383.”; “NHMUK 010592152”. Left antenna, fourth and fifth right antennomeres, and right middle leg missing ( Fig. 35 ).

Current status: Cantheconidea javana ( Dallas, 1851)

(see Breddin 1903: 203; Schouteden 1907: 45).

Note: The description of C. cognata was actually a comparison with C. javana , highlighting what separated the two species e.g., differences in the lateral angles of the pronotum. However, intraspecific variability has been shown to occur as differences in the shape of the pronotum for other asopine species (see Zhao et al. 2013b: 71–72 and Roell et al. 2019: 32, for Pinthaeus sanguinipes and Afrius purpureus , respectively).

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.