Published February 25, 2026 | Version v1
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Apiomerus erythromelas Blanchard 1842

  • 1. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), CCT La Plata, La Plata (Argentina) and División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s / n, B 1900 FWA, La Plata, Buenos Aires (Argentina) ceciliamelo @ fcnym. unlp. edu. ar; pdellape @ fcnym. unlp. edu. ar

Description

Apiomerus erythromelas Blanchard, 1842

(Fig. 4 A-D)

Apiomerus erythromelas Blanchard, 1842: 218, pl. 29, fig. 5.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Lectotype, here designated. Bolivia • 1♀; Apiomerus erythromelas; Museum Paris Bolivie (Chiquitos) d’Orbigny 1834; MNHN-EH-EH30832.

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DISTRIBUTION GIVEN BY BLANCHARD. — Chiquitos, Bolivia.

REMARKS

The green circular label with the catalogue number and year of incorporation in the collection and, possibly, the additional rectangular whitish label with a number that refers to a note in d’Orbigny’s catalogue were removed.

Notes

Published as part of Melo, María Cecilia & Dellapé, Pablo M., 2026, The types of the species described by Émile Blanchard in d'Orbigny's (1835 - 1847) Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale, pp. 121-138 in Zoosystema 48 (5) on pages 124-128, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2026v48a5, http://zenodo.org/record/18784382

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
TYPE, SPECIMEN
Scientific name authorship
Blanchard
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Reduviidae
Genus
Apiomerus
Species
erythromelas
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Apiomerus erythromelas Blanchard, 1842 sec. Melo & Dellapé, 2026