Reduvius (Eumerus) fenestratus Klug, 1830

Liu, Yingqi, Pluot-Sigwalt, Dominique, Guilbert, Eric & Cai, Wanzhi, 2022, Catalogue of type specimens of Peiratinae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) preserved in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Zootaxa 5110 (1), pp. 1-85 : 82

Reduvius (Eumerus) fenestratus Klug, 1830

Original data: “Patria: Ambukohl Dongalae; mense Augusto” ( Klug 1830, unpagined).

Non-type: 1 ♀: “ TYPE ” // “4180 34” disc // “MECHRANIUS Amyot -bimaculatus Serv. - Am. Serv. 324. -fenestratus Burm. 239 -AFRICA.”

Type locality: Ambukohl [now Ambikal], Dongalae [Dongola] [North Sudan] .

Current status: Ectomocoris fenestratus ( Klug, 1830) (combination proposed by Stål 1866: 257).

Remarks: The species described by Klug (1830) from Ambukohl and Dongalae (North Sudan) was collected during the expedition to Egypt and Asia Minor of W. Hemprich and Ch. Ehrenberg in 1820–1825. According to Bradley (1968), the expedition brought an enormous amount of material for the Berlin Museum and Dr. Jürgen Deckert kindly confirmed the presence of three syntypes of Reduvius (Eumerus) fenestratus in MFN.

The female labelled “type” found in MNHN cannot be an additional syntype. It was placed—certainly by Villiers— among other non-type specimens of this species; however, the specimen in concern did not bear an identification label from Villiers’ hand, which is unusual for a type specimen. The round label bearing two numbers (“4180” and “34”) indicates that this female is not a type specimen. In the laboratory register dated 1834, number 4180 indicates: “Achat à Mr Botta d’Insectes recueillis par lui en Nubie. Tous portent ce numéro” (Purchase from Mr. Botta of insects collected by him in Nubia. All bear this number). Nubia is the region (North Sudan) of the type locality of R. fenestratus ; the label “Type” could possibly mean “Topotype”, a term not regulated by the Code, defined as a specimen collected at the same location as the type specimen(s) regardless whether it is part of the type series or not .

The large rectangular label lined with black is characteristic of the labels made in MNHN during the second half of 19th century for specimens of the general collection of Heteroptera. At that time, the general collection was arranged according to the classification of Amyot & Serville (1843), and very often, C.J.B. Amyot worked at MNHN. “ Mechranius Amyot” appearing on one of the labels of the specimen is probably an unpublished generic name given by Amyot in accordance with his “Méthode mononymique” ( Amyot 1848).