Myocoris tipuliformis Burmeister, 1838

Gil-Santana, Helcio R. & Oliveira, Jader, 2023, A new genus and a new species of wasp-mimicking Harpactorini (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae, Harpactorinae), with an updated key to the Neotropical genera, ZooKeys 1152, pp. 163-204 : 163

Myocoris tipuliformis Burmeister, 1838

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Myocoris tipuliformis Burmeister, 1838: 105 [description]; Stål 1859: 370 [citation], 1872: 83 [catalog]; Walker 1873b: 128 [catalog]; Lethierry and Severin 1896: 178 [catalog]; Wygodzinsky 1949: 42 [catalog]; Maldonado 1990: 236 [catalog].

Hiranetis tipuliformis ; Stål 1860: 76 [catalog].

Type material examined.

Male syntype: [printed label]: 2774 // [printed label]: Zool. Mus. / Berlin // [printed red label]: Typus // [handwritten label]: tipulifor - / mis * ♂. // [handwritten green label]: Rio Bescke // [printed label]: [at left side]: QR CODE, [at right side]: MfN URI / http://coll.mfn- / berlin.de/u/ / f1f08c (MFNB).

The male type specimen deposited in the MFNB (Figs 13-15 ), labeled as “Typus” (Fig. 16 ), is herewith considered as a syntype, accordingly with Art. 73.2 of the ICZN.

Comments.

The characteristics stated by Stål (1872) to separate the species of Myocoris were confirmed in their respective type specimens (Figs 1-3 , 5-7 , 9-11 , 13-15 ). However, it is necessary to study more specimens, with a more profound taxonomical approach, to ascertain their value to this separation, and more importantly, to confirm the validity of these species, such as the case of M. nigriceps and M. tipuliformis , separated only by color differences, which may be subject of intraspecific variation, as commented above.

Figures

Figures 13 - 16. Myocoris tipuliformis Burmeister, 1838, male syntype deposited in MFNB, catalog number MfN URI http: // coll. mfn-berlin. de / u / f 1 f 08 c 13 dorsal view 14 lateral view 15 head, anterior view 16 labels. The copyright of these images is property of the MFNB. Scale bars: 5.0 mm (13, 14); 1.0 mm (15).

Figures 1 - 8. Myocoris nigriceps Burmeister, 1835, syntypes deposited in MFNB 1 - 4 sex not determined, catalog number MfN URI http: // coll. mfn-berlin. de / u / 915662 1 dorsal view 2 ventral view 3 lateral view 4 labels 5 - 8 female, catalog number MfN URI http: // coll. mfn-berlin. de / u / bc 0135 5 dorsal view 6 lateral view 7 head, anterior view 8 labels. The copyright of these images is property of the MFNB. Scale bars: 5.0 mm (1 - 3, 5, 6); 1.0 mm (7).

Figures 9 - 12. Myocoris nugax Stal, 1872, syntype, sex not determined, deposited in NHRS, catalog number NHRS-GULI 000000052, photographs provided by Gunvi Lindberg, 2022 Naturhistoriska riksmuseet. Made available by the Swedish Museum of Natural History under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License, CC-BY 4.0, https: // creativecommons. org / licenses / by / 4.0 / legalcode 9 dorsal view 10 ventral view 11 lateral view 12 labels.