Jalloides versicolor, (Jalloides)

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 : 94

versicolor (Jalloides) Distant 1911b: 350. [ Fig. 228 ]

Original data: “ Hab. Queensland; Kuranda (F. P. Dodd, Brit. Mus .).” [syntype (s)]

LECTOTYPE ♀ (designated by Thomas 1994: 166): purple-margined lectotype disc; red-margined type disc; “ Queensland. F. P. Dodd. 1907–54.”; “ Kuranda F. P. Dodd. Mch 04”; “ Jalloides versicolor type Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “NHMUK 010592292”. Doubled mounted specimen; second to fifth right antennomeres; and fourth and fifth left antennomeres missing ( Fig. 228 ).

Current status: Australojalla versicolor (Distant, 1911) (see Thomas 1994: 166).

Note: 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, a female, but cannot be sure it was the only one Distant had. Thomas (1994: 166) stated: “Material examined: Holotype female BM(NH).” We suspect he may have meant the specimen marked as type and this is the only specimen of the species in the collection (as Thomas noted: “Unfortunately, specimens seem quite rare.”), we therefore accept Thomas’s mention of the “ Holotype female” as a valid fixation of lectotype by inference of the “ holotype ” ( ICZN 1999: Art. 74.6).

Figures

FIGURES 225–232. Type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 225, Gilva varipes; 226, Arma ventralis; 227, Oplomus ventralis; 228, Jalloides versicolor; 229, Oplomus violaceus; 230–231, Oechalia virescens; 232, Oechalia virgula. Scale bars: 4 mm.