Lispochroa blandula Breddin, 1907

Kondorosy, Előd & Rédei, Dávid, 2015, Lectotype designations and taxonomic corrections on species of Lygaeoidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) described by Gustav Breddin, Zootaxa 3964 (1), pp. 101-113 : 105-107

Lispochroa blandula Breddin, 1907

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Lispochroa blandula Breddin, 1907b: 216 . Syntypes: ♂, ♀, Ceylon [= Sri Lanka]: Anuradhapura and Kanthaley; depository not stated.

Current status. Diniella blandula (combination proposed by Scudder 1962: 767).

Type material examined. Lectotype (present designation): ♂, “Kanthaley / Ceylon Horn” ( DEIC). Paralectotypes: with label identical with that of lectotype (8 ♂♂ 4 ♀♀ DEIC, 1 ♂ DEIC > HNHM); “ Ceylon / W.

Horn”, “Anu- / radhapura” (5 ♂♂ 5 ♀♀); “ Ceylon / W. Horn”, “Anu- / radhapura”, “ Diniella sp. [hw] / J. A. Slater det., 19 [pr]” (1 ♂, Hemi-00044, DEIC) ( Figs. 13–14 ).

Remarks. This species was described from an unspecified number of specimens of both sexes from Anuradhapura and Kanthaley in Ceylon [= Sri Lanka]. Several specimens from both localities fitting with the original description were examined and recognized as syntypes of L. blandula . One of them is here selected as the lectotype. This species has only been recorded from Sri Lanka ( Distant 1910; Scudder 1962; Slater 1964, 1979).

Figures

FIGURES 13 – 19. Type specimens of Rhyparochromidae species described by G. Breddin. Fig. 13, Lispochroa blandula Breddin, 1907, male paralectotype (Hemi- 00044), dorsal view; Fig. 14, same, labels; Fig. 15, Notochilaster teres Breddin, 1907, lectotype, dorsal view; Fig. 16, same, labels; Fig. 17, Aphanus schultzei Breddin, 1913, holotype, dorsal view; Fig. 18, same, lateral view; Fig. 19, same, labels. © DEIC (Figs. 13 – 16), ZMHB (Figs. 17 – 19); Figs. 17 – 19 by courtesy of J. Deckert. Scales in mm; Figs. 14 – 16 not to scale.