Oplomus stellatus, (Oplomus)

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 : 83

stellatus (Oplomus) Distant 1911a: 252–253. [ Fig. 195 ]

Original data: “ Hab. Argentina; Tucuman Prov. (Brit. Mus .).” [syntype (s)]

LECTOTYPE ♁ (designated by Thomas 1992: 65): purple-margined lectotype disc; red-margined type disc; “ Argentina. Tucuman Prov. 1902–288.”; “ Oplomus stellatus type Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “NHMUK 010592408”. Fifth right antennomere, and right posterior leg missing ( Fig. 195 ).

Current status: Oplomus punctatus Montandon, 1895 (synonymised by Horváth, 1911: 430; Horváth noted that Oplomus stellatus Distant was merely the male of O. punctatus Montandon : “ Oplomus stellatus DIST. est tantum mas O. punctati MONTD. ”)

Note: Thomas (1992: 65) explained: “The male type of Oplomus stellatus was located in the British Museum (Natural History). It is labeled: (a) “Type,” (b) “ Oplomus stellatus Dist. ,” (c) “ Argentina, Tucuman 1902-288.”” From Distant’s original description, we do not know whether Distant had one or more specimens, nor the sex. We have found only one specimen in the collection but cannot be sure it was the only one Distant had. By giving its labels data and calling the specimen “The […] type”, Thomas designated it as the lectotype by inference of “the type” ( ICZN 1999: Art. 74.6).

Figures

FIGURES 193–200. Type and non-type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 193, Tynacantha splendens; 194, Macrorhaphis spurcata; 195, Oplomus stellatus; 196, Arma submarginata; 197, Podisus congrex; 198–199, Podisus ventralis; 200, Platynopus tenellus. Scale bars: 4 mm.