Gelastocoris flavus quadrimaculatus (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)

Galgulus quadrimaculatus Guérin-Méneville, 1844: 351 .—LT (Montandon 1910: 2): sex unknown, “ Bolivie ” [Bolivia]; MZUN. Possibly destroyed during the Second World War (Todd 1955, Rider 2007).

Galgulus nebulosus Guérin-Méneville, 1844: 351 (partim) (syn. Stål 1876: 137).—ST: “ Brésil ” [Brazil] / “ Bolivie ” [Bolivia]; MZUN. Possibly destroyed during the Second World War (Todd 1955, Rider 2007).

Galgulus nebulosus Var. a.— Galgulus quadrimaculatus Guérin-Méneville, 1844; Stål 1876: 137.

Gelastocoris flavus (Guérin-Méneville, 1835); Champion (1901: 349; partim).

Gelastocoris nebulosus (Guérin-Méneville, 1844); Kirkaldy & Torre-Bueno (1909: 180; partim).

Gelastocoris quadrimaculatus (Guérin-Méneville, 1844); Kirkaldy & Torre-Bueno (1909: 180; partim).

Gelastocoris bolivianus De Carlo, 1954: 92 (syn. Todd 1955: 332).—HT: #, Bolivia, Santa Cruz, Ichilo, Buenavista; MACN.

Gelastocoris bergi De Carlo, 1954: 96 (syn. Todd 1955: 332).—HT: #, Bolivia, Sur Yungas, Suiqui; current repository unknown (see note below).

Gelastocoris nebulosus quadrimaculatus (Guérin-Méneville, 1844); Nieser (1972: 60).

Gelastocoris flavus quadrimaculatus (Guérin-Méneville, 1844); Nieser (1975: 36).

Distribution. Argentina (De Carlo 1954); Bolivia (Montandon 1910); Chile (Santiago) (Todd 1955); Colombia (Padilla-Gil 2013); Ecuador (Melin 1929); Peru (Melin 1929).

Notes. There has been confusion regarding the correct name, publication date, identity, and limits of Gelastocoris flavus (Guérin-Méneville, 1835) and its two subspecies, G. f. flavus (Guérin-Méneville, 1835) and G. f. quadrimaculatus . For a summary, see Todd (1955), De Carlo (1959), Todd (1961), Nieser (1972), and Nieser (1975). The holotype and the allotype of G. bergi (= G. f. quadrimaculatus) were originally deposited in the Institutos Científicos de San Miguel (Buenos Aires Province, Argentina) (De Carlo 1954), whose collection was partially incorporated by the Instituto de Entomología de Salta (Salta, Argentina) (Bachmann 1999), and finally by the Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Salta (Salta, Argentina) (von Ellenrieder 2009). However, De Carlo’s specimens are not mentioned in von Ellenrieder’s (2009) list of types of Insecta deposited in the Museo.