thoracata (Mecosoma) Distant 1901: 61–62 . [Figs 205–209]

Original data: “ Hab. Mashonaland, near Salisbury (G. A. K. Marshall).” [syntype (s)]

SYNTYPE ♀: blue-margined syntype disc; red-margined type [H. T.] disc; “Salisbury (Marshall)”; “ thoracata Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “Distant Coll. 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592415”. Antennae, second to fourth labial segments, and right anterior and posterior legs missing (Fig. 205).

SYNTYPE ♀: blue-margined syntype disc; “Salisbury (Marshall)”; “Distant Coll. 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592416”. Antennae missing (Fig. 206) .

SYNTYPE ♀: blue-margined syntype disc; “Salisbury (Marshall)”; “Distant Coll. 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592417”. Antennae, second to fourth labial segments, and left posterior leg missing (Fig. 207).

SYNTYPE ♀: blue-margined syntype disc; “Salisbury Mashonaland (G A K Marshall)”; “Distant Coll. 1911– 383.”; “NHMUK 010592418”. Second to fifth right antennomeres, fourth and fifth left antennomeres, and left anterior and middle legs missing (Fig. 208).

SYNTYPE ♂: blue-margined syntype disc; “Salisbury (Marshall)”; “Distant Coll. 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592419”. Antennae missing (Fig. 209).

Current status: Mecosoma mensor (Germar, 1838) (synonymised by Schouteden 1905: 183, 185; see Schouteden 1907: 63; Kirkaldy 1909: 25).

Note: A proof, if ever one was needed, that “Antennae missing” in an original description does not obligatorily mean that the author of the species was facing a single specimen!