Damarius splendidulus (Fabricius, 1803)

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

bicolor (Damarius) Distant 1912: 89 . [ Figs 18–20 ]

Original data: “ Hab. Uganda; Mabira (C. C. Gowdey, Brit. Mus .).” [syntype (s)]

LECTOTYPE ♀ (designated by Thomas 1994: 173): purple-margined lectotype disc; red-margined type disc; “Mabira 17.VII.11. No. 2907”; “1912—186”; “ Damarius bicolor type Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “NHMUK 010592420”. Fourth and fifth right antennomeres missing ( Fig. 18 ).

PARALECTOTYPE ♁: blue-margined paralectotype disc; “Mabira 17.VII.11. No. 2905”; “1912—186”; “NHMUK 010747743”. Specimen well preserved ( Fig. 19 ).

PARALECTOTYPE ♁: blue-margined paralectotype disc; “Mabira 17.VII.11. No. 2906”; “1912—186”; “NHMUK 010747806”. Fourth and fifth right antennomeres missing ( Fig. 20 ).

Current status: Damarius splendidulus (Fabricius, 1803)

(synonymised by Thomas 1994: 173, as a colour variety; there is, however, no mention of a new synonymy in the catalogue entry).

Note: From Distant’s original description, we do not know whether Distant had one or more specimens, nor the sex. We have found one female and two males in the collection matching the type data. Presumably, these were the same specimens that Thomas (1994: 173) referred to as: “Distant’s holotype female and two paratype females [sic!], in BM(NH) from Uganda were examined.” Thomas may have misread his notes concerning the sex of the specimens yet, with this statement, he designated the female specimen a lectotype by inference of “ holotype ” ( ICZN 1999: Art. 74.6). Indeed, by “Distant’s holotype female”, he could only have been referring to the female specimen bearing a red-margined type disc.

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.