Macrorhaphis spurcata, (Macrorhaphis), 2023

Roell, Talita, Lemaître, Valérie A., Webb, Michael D. & Campos, Luiz A., 2023, An annotated and illustrated Type Catalogue of the predacious Shieldbugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) in the Collection of the Natural History Museum, London, Zootaxa 5232 (1), pp. 1-105 : 83

spurcata (Macrorhaphis) Walker 1868: 531–532. [ Fig. 194 ]

Original data: “ a, b. Natal. From M. Gueinzius’ collection.” [two syntypes]

SYNTYPE ♁: blue-margined syntype disc; green-margined type disc; “ Pt Natal 55.96.”; “ MACRORHAPHIS SPURCATA . sp. n. F. WALKER 1868 ”; “G. Schmitz det. 1976 Macrorhaphis acuta ♁ DALLAS”; “NHMUK 010592175”. Specimen carded; fourth and fifth right antennomeres, fifth left antennomere missing. Pygophore kept inside a glass vial ( Fig. 194 ).

Current status: Macrorhaphis (Megarhaphis) acuta Dallas, 1851 (synonymised by Schouteden 1905: 177; see Schouteden 1907: 39, for the subgeneric placement).

Notes: Strangely enough, Walker had noted “The spines of the thorax are more acute than those of M. tristis ” [emphasis ours], but he did not think it could be M. acuta Dallas to which Schouteden later synonymised it. One syntype is missing or was not recognised.

Figures

FIGURES 193–200. Type and non-type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 193, Tynacantha splendens; 194, Macrorhaphis spurcata; 195, Oplomus stellatus; 196, Arma submarginata; 197, Podisus congrex; 198–199, Podisus ventralis; 200, Platynopus tenellus. Scale bars: 4 mm.