Cosmolestes fulvus Horváth, 1893

Kment, Petr & Rédei, Dávid, 2018, A revision of the types of Heteroptera species described by Géza Horváth based on specimens from collections of Ladislav Duda and Emil Holub, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 58 (1), pp. 275-295 : 280-282

Cosmolestes fulvus Horváth, 1893

( Figs 8–11 )

Cosmolestes fulvus Horváth, 1893: 263 (original description).

Cosmolestes fulvus : LETHIERRY & SEVERIN (1896):190 (catalogue); SCHOU- TEDEN (1932): 193 (list of species, distribution); VILLIERS (1950): 76 (record); VILLIERS (1954a): 18 (record); MALDONADO CAPRILES (1990): 188 (catalogue).

Type locality. ‘Africa centralis (HOLUB)’ [= Southern and southern-central Africa between Cape Town and Kafue River, Zambia].

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE: ♀ ( HNHM), ‘978 / 15. [hw, with p frame and p horizontal line across middle] // Holub [p, pink label] // Africa / centralis [Horváth’s hw] // Cosmolestes / fulvus Horv.

[Horváth’s hw]’ (pinned through pronotum, left antenna, pedicel and flagellum of right antenna, distal part of right fore tarsus, left fore and both mid tarsi, left hind leg, and tibia and tarsus of right hind leg lacking) ( Figs 8–11 ).

Topotypic material examined. 1 ♀ ( NMPC), ‘Holub [p, pink label] // COLL.NICKERL / MUS.PRAGENSE [p, with p frame submarginally] // Cosmolestes / fulvus [hw] // ♀ [p] // topotype, not syntype / COSMO- LESTES / FULVUS / Horváth, 1893 / det. P. KMENT 2018 [p]’ (pinned through pronotum).

Current status. Valid species ( MALDONADO CAPRILES 1990).

Distribution. Angola ( VILLIERS 1950); Democratic Republic of the Congo ( SCHOUTEDEN 1932, VILLIERS 1954a).

Remarks. The original description explicitly specified that it was based on a single female (‘[t]ibiae posticae in exemplo descripto cum tarsis desunt’ = hind tibiae of the described specimen lacking tarsi). Only the female deposited in the HNHM ( Figs 8–11 ) matches this piece of information, therefore it is to be treated as the holotype of this species ( ICZN 1999: Art. 73.1.2).

Figures

Figs 5–22. Habitus and labels of type specimens. 5–7 – Coranopsis vittata Horváth, 1893, ♀, syntype; 8–11 – Cosmolestes fulvus Horváth, 1893, ♀, holotype; 12–15 – Edocla albipennis Horváth, 1893,, holotype; 16–18 – Harpactor dudae Horváth, 1893 [= Rhynocoris dudae],, syntype; 19–22 – Oncocephalus angustatus Horváth, 1893, ♀, syntype. Scale bars in mm. (Photo: D. Rédei).