Macrorhaphis (Macrorhaphis) dallasi Schouteden, 1905

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 : 33

dallasi (Macrorhaphis) Schouteden 1905: 181–182 . [ Fig. 47 ]

Original data: “ ♀ ”; “ Habitat : Madagascar: Forêt Tanala. (Mus. Paris).” [syntype (s)]

NON-TYPE ♁: rectangular orange allotype label; “INSTITUT SCIENTIFIQUE MADAGASCAR ”; “Perinet”; “ Macrorhaphis dallasi SCHOUTEDEN ♁ G. Schmitz det. 1976”; “ ALLOTYPUS Macrorhaphis dallasi ♁”; “Brit.Mus. 1965-338”; “NHMUK 010937294”. Specimen carded, fourth and fifth right antennomeres missing ( Fig. 47 ) .

Current status: Macrorhaphis (Macrorhaphis) dallasi Schouteden, 1905

(See Schmitz 1976: 371, for latest subgeneric placement)

Notes: This specimen labelled by Schmitz as “ ALLOTYPUS ” (see above) cannot be a type as its data is not matching that of the original description (the species was described from the female only and Perinet is more to the north than the area that is usually thought of as the Tanala country). Furthermore, Day (1964: 559) explained that the large collection of Madagascan Pentatomidae received from Dr. P. Malzy was one of undetermined specimens specifically sent for identification; it could not have contained types. It is, however, clear that Schmitz (1976: 371) perceived the word “ ALLOTYPUS ” as referring not only to the type of the opposite sex designated in the original description but also as the first, ulteriorly collected, example of the opposite sex to that already known for the species. A female syntype for the species and a female holotype for its variety are reported in Paris ( Maldès & Pluot-Sigwalt 2004: 25–26).

Figures

FIGURES 41–48. Type and non-type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 41–42, Platynopus conspersus; 43–46, Zicrona cuprea; 47, Macrorhaphis dallasi; 48, Oplomus distinctus. Scale bars: 4 mm.