Eocanthecona parva, (Canthecona)

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 : 67

parva (Canthecona) Distant 1902: 250–251. [ Figs 145–146 ]

Original data: “ Length 9 to 10; breadth between pronotal angles 5½ to 6 millim.”; “ Hab. Bengal. Mysore ( Coll. Dist. ).” [syntypes (range of measurements and two localities)]

SYNTYPE ♁: blue-margined syntype disc; red-margined type disc; “Ranchi [capital of the recently founded Indian state of Jharkhand, a state situated in an area which was, at the time Distant described the species, part of what was then known as the Bengal Presidency]; Irvine.”; “ parva Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “Distant Coll. 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592179”. Carded specimen. Second to fifth left antennomeres, and legs (except the left middle one) missing ( Fig. 145 ) .

SYNTYPE ♁: blue-margined syntype disc; “Bangalore [also Bengaluru, Karnataka. Karnataka was originally known as the state of Mysore and was renamed in 1973] Cameron.”; “Distant Coll. 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592299”. Fourth and fifth left antennomeres, and right anterior leg missing ( Fig. 146 ) .

Current status: Eocanthecona parva ( Distant, 1902) (see Thomas 1994: 177).

Note: Thomas (1994: 177) did not mention any type in the material he examined.

Figures

FIGURES 145–152. Type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 145–146, Canthecona parva; 147–148, Platynopus parvus; 149– 152, Raphigaster pentatomoides. Scale bars: 4 mm.