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Podisus smithi Distant 1889

  • 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

smithi (Podisus) Distant 1889: 319. [Fig. 190]

Original data: “ Hab. MEXICO, Orizaba (H. H. Smith & F. D. G.).” [syntype (s)]

LECTOTYPE ♀ (designated by Thomas 1992: 97): purple-margined lectotype disc; red-margined type disc; “Orizaba. H. H. S. & F. D. G. Dec 1887.”; “B.C.A., Hem. I. Podisus smithi Dist. ”; “NHMUK 010592331”. Fourth and fifth right and left antennomeres missing (Fig. 190).

Current status: Podisus nigriventris Distant, 1880 (synonymised by Thomas 1992: 97).

Note: Thomas (1992: 97) explained: “The type of Podisus smithi, a female, was located in the BMNH. It is labeled: (a) “Type,” (b) “Orizaba HHS + FDG Dec 1887 BCA Hem. Podisus smithi Dist. ”” 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 but cannot be sure it was the only one Distant had. By giving its labels data and calling the specimen “the type”, Thomas designated it as the lectotype by inference of “the type” (ICZN 1999: Art. 74.6).

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 79, 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
Podisus
Species
smithi
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype , syntype
Taxonomic concept label
Podisus smithi Distant, 1889 sec. Roell, Lemaître, Webb & Campos, 2023

References

  • Distant, W. L. (1889) Insecta. Rhynchota, Hemiptera-Heteroptera. In: Godman, F. D. & Salvin, O. (Eds.), Biologia CentraliAmericana. Vol. 1. R. H. Porter, London, pp. 305 - 328.
  • Thomas, D. B. (1992) Taxonomic synopsis of the asopine Pentatomidae (Heteroptera) of the Western Hemisphere. Thomas Say Foundation Monographs. Vol. XVI. Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Maryland, iv + 156 pp.
  • Distant, W. L. (1880) Insecta. Rhynchota, Hemiptera-Heteroptera. In: Godman, F. D. & Salvin, O. (Eds.), Biologia Centrali - Americana. Vol. 1. R. H. Porter, London, pp. 1 - 88, 8 pls.
  • ICZN (1999) International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 4 th Edition. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, London, 306 pp.