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Halys flavolineatus Blanchard 1844

  • 1. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), CCT La Plata, La Plata (Argentina) & División Entomología, Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s / n, B 1900 FWA, La Plata, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
  • 2. 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

Halys flavolineatus Blanchard, 1844

(Fig. 10 A-E)

Halys flavolineatus Blanchard, 1844: 220, pl. 30, fig. 8.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Lectotype, here designated. Bolivia • 1 specimen without abdomen, 8833 34; 185; Halys flavolineatus; type; Colpothyreus flavolineatus Blanch.Typ. Sch. 1906; MNHN-EH-EH 30834.

DISTRIBUTION GIVEN BY BLANCHARD. — Chiquitos, Bolivia.

D’ORBIGNY’S CATALOGUE NOTES. — Forests inhabited by the Guarayos Indians, between Chiquitos and Mojos, December 1831. About the common plants and shrubs, along the edge of the grove.

VALID NAME. — Colpothyreus flavolineatus (Blanchard, 1844) (Stål 1867).

REMARKS

Gapud (1991) in his generic revision of Asopinae mentioned that “The type and only existing specimen of Colpothyreus flavolineatus (Blanchard), which is badly damaged and with missing body parts, was also examined …”. It seems to agree with the specimen we studied.

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 page 134, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2026v48a5, http://zenodo.org/record/18784382

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
MNHN-EH-EH
Material sample ID
30834
Scientific name authorship
Blanchard
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Pentatomidae
Genus
Halys
Species
flavolineatus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Halys flavolineatus Blanchard, 1844 sec. Melo & Dellapé, 2026

References

  • STAL C. 1867. - Bidrag till Hemipterernas Systematik. Ofversigt af Kongl. Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar 24 (7): 491-560. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.61897
  • GAPUD V. P. 1991. - A generic revision of the subfamily Asopinae, with consideration of its phylogenetic position in the family Pentatomidae and superfamily Pentatomoidea (HemipteraHeteroptera). The Philippine Entomologist 8: 865-961. https://doi.org/10.59852/tpe-a300v8i3