Amnestus dallasi Distant

Amnestus dallasi Distant

Amnestus dallasi Distant, 1893, p. 453.

Diagnosis. Juga with five pegs, posterior lobe of pronotum and scutellum thickly and coarsely punctuate. Prosternal carina elevated with ventral margin triangular.

Original description. Black; antennae, eyes, lateral margins of the pronotum, a broad sublateral fascia to the corium, and the legs pale castaneous; membrane pale ochraceous and subhyaline, the base and apex very pale castaneous. Head coarsely punctate, with the frontal and marginal spines well developed; pronotum with an obscure transverse incision, the anterior lobe with a few scattered discal punctures, and thickly and coarsely punctate at the lateral margins, posterior lobe and scutellum thickly and coarsely punctate; corium more finely punctate, the posterior discal and marginal area impunctate. Long. 5 mm.

Type data. This species was described based on only one female, so the specimen is mounted on one card and bears three labels: Chilpancingo, Guerrero, 4600 ft. June H.H. Smith; BCA., Hem 1, Amnestus dallasi Dist (type); and the typical circled red type label. So this specimen is designated as the Lectotype.