Panstrongylus megistus, Burmeister, 1835: 246

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 : 337-338

megistus Burmeister, 1835: 246 ; Conorhinus

( Figs. 40–43 )

Current status: Panstrongylus megistus ( Burmeister, 1835) ; combination proposed by Pinto (1931: 117).

SYNTYPE female ( Figs. 40–42 ) with labels ( Fig. 43 ): “Type” [red, pr] // “Bras. s. am” [green, hw] // “Conorh. / megistus / Br.”[hw] // “2937” [printed]

SYNTYPE male with labels: “ Paratypus ” [red, pr] // “ Brasil.” [green, hw] // “Velloo” [green, hw] // “ Conorhinus / megistus / Burm. / Paratypus ” [hw] // “2937” [hw]

SYNTYPE female with labels: “ Paratypus ” [red, pr] // “ Brasil ” [green, hw] // “Veloo” [green, hw] // “ Conorhinus / megistus / Burm. / Paratypus ” [hw] // “2937” [hw]

Remarks. Lent & Wygodzinsky (1979: 394) indicated that the depository of the types of C. megistus was unknown, but we found the type series in the Museum für Naturkunde.

Figures

FIGURES 36–43. Habitus. 36–39, Triatoma maculipennis Stål, 1859 [= Triatoma dimidiata (Latreille, 1811)], syntype. 36, dorsal. 37, ventral. 38, lateral. 39, labels. 40–43, Conorhinus megistus Burmeister, 1835 [= Panstrongylus megistus (Burmeister, 1835)], syntype. 40, dorsal. 41, ventral. 42, lateral. 43, labels. Bars = 5 mm.