Amnestus dallasi Distant

Martinez, Cristina Mayorga & Peredo, Luis Cervantes, 2014, The genus Amnestus Dallas (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae: Amnestinae) in Mexico, with the description of eleven new species from Chiapas, Zootaxa 3779 (4), pp. 401-432 : 409

Amnestus dallasi Distant

Amnestus dallasi Distant, 1893 , p. 453.

Diagnosis. Juga with five pegs, posterior lobe of pronotum and scutellum thickly and coarsely punctuate. Prosternal carina elevated with ventral margin triangular.

Original description. Black; antennae, eyes, lateral margins of the pronotum, a broad sublateral fascia to the corium, and the legs pale castaneous; membrane pale ochraceous and subhyaline, the base and apex very pale castaneous. Head coarsely punctate, with the frontal and marginal spines well developed; pronotum with an obscure transverse incision, the anterior lobe with a few scattered discal punctures, and thickly and coarsely punctate at the lateral margins, posterior lobe and scutellum thickly and coarsely punctate; corium more finely punctate, the posterior discal and marginal area impunctate. Long. 5 mm.

Type data. This species was described based on only one female, so the specimen is mounted on one card and bears three labels: Chilpancingo, Guerrero, 4600 ft. June H.H. Smith; BCA., Hem 1, Amnestus dallasi Dist (type); and the typical circled red type label. So this specimen is designated as the Lectotype.