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 migratoria ( Cantheconidea ) Distant 1913: 144–145 . [ Fig. 113 ] Original data : “ Loc . Aldabra, 1907 (Thomasset).” [ syntype (s)] SYNTYPE ♀ : blue-margined syntype disc; red-margined type disc; “Aldabra. HPT [= H. P. Thomasset ]. 1907.”; “Percy Sladen Trust Expedition. 1911–497.”; “ Canthecona migratoria type Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “NHMUK 010592166”. Carded specimen. Fifth left antennomere, right antenna, and right posterior leg missing ( Fig. 113 ) . Current status : Afrius ( Subafrius ) flavirostrum (Signoret, 1861) (synonymised by Roell et al . 2019: 15 ). Note : Thomas (1994: 151) explained: “I am convinced that the specimen labeled “ Afrius nigritarsis Distant,” “ Type ,” and, “Aldabra,” is actually the lost type of C . migratoria Distant. The specimen from Aldabra is markedly similar to Afrius flavirostrum , a Madagascan species, but I hesitate to synonymize Distant’s name because of the uncertainty attending the true identity of the specimen, it’s [sic!] exotic geographic origin, and the paucity of material for study. With those provisos in mind I am transferring Cantheconidea migratoria Distant to the genus Afrius , subgenus Subafrius .” It seems clear to us that he misread the specific epithet migratoria for nigritarsis and we do not doubt the identity of the specimen (see Roell et al . 2019: 15 ).