Ectomocoris mbaya Jeannel, 1917

Liu, Yingqi, Pluot-Sigwalt, Dominique, Guilbert, Eric & Cai, Wanzhi, 2022, Catalogue of type specimens of Peiratinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) preserved in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Zootaxa 5110 (1), pp. 1-85 : 14

Ectomocoris mbaya Jeannel, 1917

Original data: “Afrique Orientale anglaise: Fort-Hall, dans le pays Kikuyu (ALLUAUD, nov. 1908)” ( Jeannel 1917: 303).

Type: Lectotype ♀, designated by Jeannel (1919: 246): “ TYPE ” // “NOVEMBRE” // “ MUSEUM PARIS AFRIQUE ORIENT. ANGL. KÉNIA (S.-O.) DISTRICT DE MARANGA FORT-HALL. CH. ALLUAUD 1909” // “ Ectomocoris mbaya n. sp. R. JEANNEL det.” [hw Jeannel] ( Fig. 11 ).

Type locality: Pays Kikuyu : Fort-Hall [ Kenya] .

Current status: Valid species.

Remarks: A brief “preliminary diagnosis” of Ectomocoris mbaya , which nevertheless represented a proposal of the name in an available way, was published by Jeannel (1917), without designating holotype or mentioning the number of type specimens; the original description neither implies nor requires that there were more than one syntypes. A subsequent detailed redescription ( Jeannel 1919: 246) provided the following additional information: “TYPE: une femelle brachyptère de Fort-Hall. (Mus. Paris)” and “Fort-Hall (1.330 m.)”. The act of Jeannel (1919) is to be recognized as a valid lectotype designation according to ICZN (1999, Art. 74.6).

Figures

FIGURE 11. Lectotype ♀ of Ectomocoris mbaya Jeannel, 1917. Scale bar: 3 mm.