Pachysandalus orientalis Jeannel, 1917

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 : 52

Pachysandalus orientalis Jeannel, 1917

Original data: “Afrique Orientale anglaise: Shimoni, sur la côte, au sud de Mombasa (ALLUAUD et JEANNEL, nov.1911)” ( Jeannel 1917: 304).

Types: Syntype 1 ♂: “ TYPE ” // “ Côte d’Afrique or angl. SHIMONI ALLUAUD ET JEANNEL Nov. 1911 St. 9” // “ Pachysandalus orientalis n. sp. R. JEANNEL det.” [hw Jeannel] ( Fig. 43 ) .

Syntypes 2 ♂♂: same label information as above but without the identification label.

Type locality: Afrique orientale anglaise: Shimoni [ Kenya: south of Mombasa].

Current status: Valid species ( Coscarón 2002: 32–35).

Remarks: A brief “preliminary diagnosis” of Pachysandalus orientalis , which nevertheless represented a proposal of the name in an available way, was published by Jeannel (1917), without designating holotype or mentioning the number of type specimens. A subsequent detailed redescription ( Jeannel 1919: 252–253) mentioned four males from two different localities. We only found three males in the MNHN, all from Shimoni; the male from “Tiwi, st. [station] n° 5, nov. 1911 ” could not be located. As no holotype was designated in the original description, and no lectotype has subsequently been designated, the specimens are to be considered as syntypes, with no regard to their labels ( ICZN 1999, Arts. 73.1.3, 73.2).

Figures

FIGURE 43. Syntype ♂ of Pachysandalus orientalis Jeannel, 1917. Scale bar: 2 mm.