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Eocanthecona robusta

  • 1. Laboratório de Entomologia Sistemática, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
  • 2. Natural History Museum London, Department of Life Sciences (Insects), Cromwell Rd, London SW 7 5 BD, England
  • 3. Natural History Museum London, Department of Life Sciences (Insects), Cromwell Rd, London SW 7 5 BD, England.
  • 4. Laboratório de Entomologia Sistemática, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.

Description

robustus (Picromerus) Distant 1879: 48. [Figs 170–171]

Original data: “ ♂ ♀ ”; “ Sadia [“north of Brahmaputra”], 350 feet.” “collected by Mr. A. W. Chennell, of the Indian Topographical Survey”. [syntypes (male and female)]

SYNTYPE ♂: blue-margined syntype disc; red-margined type [H. T.] disc; “Sadia 350 ft. (Chennell)”; “robustus (type) Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “Distant Coll. 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592160”. Fourth and fifth right and left antennomeres, anterior legs, and posterior legs missing (Fig. 170).

SYNTYPE ♀: blue-margined syntype disc; “Sadia 350 ft. (Chennell)”; “Distant Coll. 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592162”. Right antenna, fourth and fifth left antennomeres, right middle and posterior legs, and left anterior and posterior legs missing (Fig. 171).

Current status: Eocanthecona robusta (Distant, 1879) (see Thomas 1994: 177).

Note: Thomas (1994: 177) did not mention having examined types, only “[d]etermined specimens in BM(NH).”

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-105 in Zootaxa 5232 (1) on page 75, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5232.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7609794

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Distant
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Pentatomidae
Genus
Eocanthecona
Species
robusta
Taxon rank
species
Type status
syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Eocanthecona robusta (Distant, 1879) sec. Roell, Lemaître, Webb & Campos, 2023

References

  • Distant, W. L. (1879) Hemiptera from the North-eastern Frontier of India. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 5, 3 (13), 44 - 53. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222937908682474
  • Thomas, D. B. (1994) Taxonomic synopsis of the Old World asopine genera (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Insecta Mundi, 8 (3 - 4), 145 - 212. Available from: http: // digitalcommons. unl. edu / cgi / viewcontent. cgi? article = 1295 & context = insectamundi (accessed 14 January 2020)