Canthecona marmorata
Description
marmorata (Canthecona) Dallas 1851: 90. [Fig. 108]
Original data: “ ♁”; “a. S. Africa. Presented by the Earl of Derby.” [syntype (s)]
SYNTYPE ♁: blue-margined syntype disc; red-margined type disc; “Int. S. Africa / 43 19”; “3. CANTHECONA MARMORATA,”; “a”; “NHMUK 010592164”. Right middle and posterior legs missing (Fig. 108).
Current status: Afrius purpureus (Westwood, 1837) (synonymised by Roell et al. 2019: 25).
Notes: Walker (1867a: 130) listed only one specimen from the same provenance (South Africa, Earl of Derby); it is likely that Dallas described the species from this unique specimen but we cannot be totally sure, we therefore consider the specimen a syntype. Strangely, Thomas (1994: 151) wrote “the Holotype female of Canthecona marmorata Dallas was located in the BM(NH)”. Dallas described the species from one (or more) male, and we have also found a male in the collection; Thomas may have misread his notes. Because of the doubt he introduced as to the sex of the specimen, we cannot consider this as a valid lectotype designation by inference of the holotype.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pentatomidae
- Genus
- Canthecona
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Canthecona
- Species
- marmorata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype , syntype
References
- Dallas, W. S. (1851) List of the specimens of hemipterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part 1. Trustees of the British Museum, London, 368 pp., 11 pls.
- Roell, T., Lemaitre, V. A. & Webb, M. D. (2019) Revision of the African shieldbug genus Afrius Stal, 1870 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 520, 1 - 44. https: // doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2019.520
- Walker, F. (1867 a) Catalogue of the specimens of Hemiptera Heteroptera in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. E. Newman, London, pp. 1 - 240.
- Thomas, D. B. (1994) Taxonomic synopsis of the Old World asopine genera (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Insecta Mundi, 8 (3 - 4), 145 - 212. Available from: http: // digitalcommons. unl. edu / cgi / viewcontent. cgi? article = 1295 & context = insectamundi (accessed 14 January 2020)