nigrispina (Arma)

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 : 60

nigrispina (Arma) Dallas 1851: 99. [ Figs 123–124 ]

Original data: “ ♁ ♀ ”; “a. Brazil. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq.” [syntypes (male and female)]

LECTOTYPE ♀ (designated by Thomas 1992: 89): purple-margined lectotype disc; red-margined type disc; “ Brazil / 45 67”; “19. ARMA NIGRISPINA ,”; “NHMUK 010592328”. Left hemelytron, fourth and fifth right and left antennomeres, anterior legs, left middle leg, and posterior legs missing ( Fig. 123 ).

PARALECTOTYPE ♁: blue-margined paralectotype disc; “ Brazil / 45 67”; “ Arma nigrispina Walker’s catal.”; “NHMUK 010747393”. Second to fifth right and left antennomeres, and right anterior leg missing ( Fig. 124 ) .

Current status: Podisus nigrispinus ( Dallas, 1851) (see Stål 1868: 497).

Note: Dallas had at least two specimens since he mentioned male and female. Indeed, Walker (1867a: 137) listed two specimens from the same provenance. Yet Thomas (1992: 89) only reported one: “the type of Arma nigrispina , a female, was located in the British Museum (Natural History). It is labeled: (a) “ Brazil,” (b) “Type,” (c) “19. Arma nigrispina .”” By giving its labels data and calling the specimen “the type”, Thomas has “unambiguously selected [this] particular syntype to act as the unique name-bearing type of the taxon” ( ICZN 1999, Art. 74.5).

Figures

FIGURES 121–128. Type and non-type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 121, Arma monospila; 122, Oplomus nigripennis; 123–124, Arma nigrispina; 125, Podisus nigriventris; 126, Picromerus nigrivitta; 127–128, Mormidea nigro-binotata. Scale bars: 4 mm.