An annotated and illustrated Type Catalogue of the predacious Shieldbugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) in the Collection of the Natural History Museum, London Author Roell, Talita Laboratório de Entomologia Sistemática, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil Author Lemaître, Valérie A. 0000-0003-4802-2711 Natural History Museum London, Department of Life Sciences (Insects), Cromwell Rd, London SW 7 5 BD, England v.lemaitre@nhm.ac.uk Author Webb, Michael D. 0000-0002-1312-6142 Natural History Museum London, Department of Life Sciences (Insects), Cromwell Rd, London SW 7 5 BD, England. m.webb@nhm.ac.uk Author Campos, Luiz A. 0000-0001-5414-8746 Laboratório de Entomologia Sistemática, Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. luiz.campos@ufrgs.br text Zootaxa 2023 2023-02-03 5232 1 1 105 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5232.1.1 journal article 311702 10.11646/zootaxa.5232.1.1 89fb7023-0164-4162-a8b4-5990686d5e7d 1175-5326 7609794 E7B67882-2148-49C5-9F09-D5CAA95A21D1 marginata ( Tynacantha ) Dallas 1851: 107 . [ Fig. 103 ] Original data : “ ♀ ”. “a. Venezuela . From Mr. Dyson’s Collection. ” [ syntype (s)] LECTOTYPE ♀ (designated by Thomas 1992: 122 ): purple-margined lectotype disc; red-margined type disc; “ Venezuela / 47 1”; “1. TYNACANTHA MARGINATA ,”; “a”; “NHMUK 010592371”. Second to fifth right antennomeres, fourth and fifth left antennomeres, and right posterior leg missing ( Fig. 103 ). Current status : Tynacantha marginata Dallas, 1851 . Note : Thomas (1992: 122) explained: “I examined the type of Tynacantha marginata , a female, located in the British Museum (Natural History). It is labeled: (a) “Type,” (b) “61 Venezuela ,” (c) “a,” (d) “ Tynacantha marginata .” From Dallas’s original description, we do not know whether Dallas had one or more specimens, only the sex: female. Walker (1867a: 147) listed one specimen and we have found only one specimen in the collection but cannot be sure it was the only one Dallas had. By giving its labels data (albeit somewhat erroneously) and calling the specimen “the type”, Thomas designated it as the lectotype by inference of “the type” ( ICZN 1999 : Art. 74.6).