Mezira parva Hoberlandt, 1957

Kment, Petr, Kolínová, Zdislava & Heiss, Ernst, 2015, Catalogue of the type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic *, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (1), pp. 411-443 : 428-429

Mezira parva Hoberlandt, 1957

Mezira parva Hoberlandt, 1957: 49 (key), 58–61, Figs 55–58 (original description).

The holotype and three paratypes (including the allotype) are deposited in NMPC:

HOLOTYPE (J): ‘ Ampanefena / Madagascar [p] // Holotypus [p, red label] // Holotypus [p] / Mezira / parva sp. n. J [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 11.026 [hw, orange label]’. (Specimen card-mounted; left antennal segments III–IV and mesotarsi on both sides missing.)

PARATYPE (J): ‘Ampanefena / Madagascar [p] // Paratypus [p, red label] // Paratypus [p] / Mezira / parva sp.n. J [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 11.027 [hw, orange label]’.

PARATYPE (♀): ‘Ampanefena / Madagascar [p] // Allotypus [p, red label] // Allotypus [p] / Mezira / parva sp.n. ♀ [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label]’.

PARATYPE (♀): ‘Antalaba / Madagascar [p] // Paratypus [p, red label] // Paratypus [p] / Mezira / parva sp.n. ♀ [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label]’.

Current status. Valid species (see USINGER & MATSUDA 1959, HOBERLANDT 1963, KORMILEV & FROESCHNER 1987, HEISS 2012).