Rhodnius prolixus, Stal, 1859: 104

Rodrigues, Juliana Mourão Dos Santos, Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, Deckert, Jürgen & Galvão, Cleber, 2020, List of the type specimens of Triatominae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) in the Hemimetabola Collection of the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Zootaxa 4809 (2), pp. 329-348 : 341

prolixus Stål, 1859: 104 ; Rhodnius

( Figs. 60–63 )

Current status: Rhodnius prolixus Stål, 1859 .

LECTOTYPE [designated by Lent & Wygodzinsky (1979: 424)] female ( Figs. 60–62 ) with labels ( Fig. 63 ): “Typus” [red, pr] // “La Guayra. Otto” [green, hw] // “ Lectotype ” [red] / “Lent & Wygodz. / desig.” [hw] // “ Rhodnius / Stål.” [hw] // “prolixus. / Stål.” [hw] // “Zool. Mus. / Berlin ” [yellow, pr] // “2916” [pr]

PARALECTOTYPE female with labels: “ Paratypus ” [red, pr] // “La Guaira / Otto” [green, hw] // “ xRhodnius / prolixus ♀ / Stål / Paratypus ” [hw] // “Zool. Mus./ Berlin ” [yellow, pr] // “2916” [hw]

PARALECTOTYPE female with labels: “ Paratypus ” [red, pr] / / “La Guaira / Otto” [green, hw] // “ xRhodnius / prolixus ♀ / Stål / Paratypus ” [hw] // “Zool. Mus. / Berlin ” [yellow, pr] // “2916” [hw]

Remarks. Lent & Wygodzinsky (1979: 424) examined the three females above and designated the one with a printed number, handwritten labels that were “obviously old” and two determination labels that were “probably in Stål’s handwriting” as the lectotype.

Figures

FIGURES 60–67. Habitus. 60–63, Rhodnius prolixus Stål, 1859, lectotype. 60, dorsal. 61, ventral. 62, lateral. 63, labels. 64–67, Conorhinus protractus Uhler, 1894 [= Triatoma protracta (Uhler, 1894)], specimen doubtful and no longer considered part of the type series. 64, dorsal. 65, ventral. 66, lateral. 67, labels. Bars = 5 mm.