Platynopus polygraphus, (Platynopus)

Roell, Talita, Lemaître, Valérie A., Webb, Michael D. & Campos, Luiz A., 2023, An annotated and illustrated Type Catalogue of the predacious Shieldbugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) in the Collection of the Natural History Museum, London, Zootaxa 5232 (1), pp. 1-105 : 69

polygraphus (Platynopus) Walker 1867a: 126–127. [ Fig. 161 ]

Original data: “ a. Ceram. Presented by W. W. Saunders, Esq.” [holotype]

HOLOTYPE ♀:red-margined holotype disc;green-margined type disc; “Cer.”;“17. PLATYNOPUS POLYGRAPHUS .”; “Saunders 65. 13.”; “NHMUK 010592434”. Right middle leg missing ( Fig. 161 ).

Current status: Platynopus melanoleucus (Westwood, 1837) (synonymised by Distant 1900a: 57, 63, see Schouteden 1907: 47).

Note: Although Walker (1867a: 127) had noted: “The markings of this species and the longer spines of the thorax distinguish it from P. melanoleucus .”, the species was nevertheless synonymised to P. melanoleucus by Distant, 33 years later.

Figures

FIGURES 161–168. Type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 161, Platynopus polygraphus; 162, Strachia praecipua; 163, Incitatus primus; 164–165, Oplomus pulcher; 166, Platynopus purpurascens; 167, Strachia pyrophila; 168, Strachia reciproca. Scale bars: 4 mm.