Published February 3, 2023 | Version v1
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Cazira similis Distant 1902

  • 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

similis (Cazira) Distant 1902: 245–246. [Figs 185–187]

Original data: “Length 8½ to 11; breadth between pronotal angles 5 to 6 millim.”; “ Hab. Naga Hills (Doherty).” [syntypes (range of measurements)]

SYNTYPE ♂: blue-margined syntype disc; red-margined type [H. T.] disc “Naga Hills (Doherty)”; “ similis Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “Distant Coll. 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592147”. Fourth and fifth right antennomeres, second to fifth left antennomeres, left middle leg, and posterior legs missing (Fig. 185).

SYNTYPE ♂: blue-margined syntype disc; “Naga Hills (Doherty)”; “Distant Coll. 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592148”. Fourth and fifth right antennomeres, third to fifth left antennomeres, and left anterior leg missing (Fig. 186).

SYNTYPE ♂: blue-margined syntype disc; “Naga Hills (Doherty)”; “Distant Coll. 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592149”. Fifth right and left antennomeres, and left middle leg missing (Fig. 187).

Current status: Cazira similis Distant, 1902.

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 78, 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
Cazira
Species
similis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cazira similis Distant, 1902 sec. Roell, Lemaître, Webb & Campos, 2023

References

  • Distant, W. L. (1902) Rhynchota. - Vol. I. (Heteroptera). In: Blanford, W. T. (Ed.), The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Secretary of State for India; Taylor & Francis, London, i - xxviii + 1 - 438 pp., 424 figs.