Mezira madagascariensis Hoberlandt, 1957

Kment, Petr, Kolínová, Zdislava & Heiss, Ernst, 2015, Catalogue of the type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic *, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (1), pp. 411-443 : 427-428

Mezira madagascariensis Hoberlandt, 1957

Mezira madagascariensis Hoberlandt, 1957: 50 (key), 66–69, Figs 67–70 (original description).

The holotype and 82 paratypes (including the allotype) are deposited in NMPC:

HOLOTYPE (J): ‘Rogez / Madagascar / Mus Praha [p] // Holotypus [p] / Mezira / madagascariensis / sp. n. J [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 11.038 [hw, orange label]’. (Specimen card mounted; complete.)

PARATYPES (21 JJ): ‘Rogez / Madagascar / Mus Praha [p] // Paratypus [p] / Mezira / madagascariensis / sp. n. J [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 11.040, 11.041, 11.042, 11.043, 11.044, 11.045, 11.046, 11.047, 11.048, 11.049, 11.050, 11.051, 11.052, 11.053, 11.054, 11.055, 11.056, 11.057, 11.058, 11.059, 11.060 [respectively; hw, orange label]’.

PARATYPES (17 JJ): ‘Rogez / Madagascar / Mus Praha [p] // Paratypus [p] / Mezira / madagascariensis / sp. n. J [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label]’.

PARATYPES (2 JJ): ‘Vohémar / Madagascar [p] // Paratypus [p] / Mezira / madagascariensis / sp. n. J [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label]’.

PARATYPE (J): ‘ Madagaskar / Sikora [p] // Paratypus [p] / Mezira / madagascariensis / sp. n. J [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label]’.

PARATYPE (J): ‘ Madagaskar. / Sikora, 1896. [p] // Paratypus [p] / Mezira / madagascariensis / sp. n. J [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label]’.

PARATYPE (J): ‘ Madagaskar / Sikora [p] // Mus. Caes. / Vindobon. [p] // Paratypus [p] / Mezira / madagascariensis / sp. n. J [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label]’.

PARATYPE (J): ‘Mdgk. Sikora, [p] / Ampasimena p. [hw] // Mus. Caes. / Vindobon. [p] // Paratypus [p] / Mezira / madagascariensis / sp. n. J [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label]’.

PARATYPE (♀): ‘Rogez / Madagascar / Mus Praha [p] // Allotypus [p] / Mezira / madagascariensis / sp. n. ♀ [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 11.039 [hw, orange label]’.

PARATYPES (20 ♀♀): ‘Rogez / Madagascar / Mus. Praha // Paratypus [p] / Mezira / madagascariensis / sp. n. ♀ [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 11.061, 11.062, 11.063, 11.064, 11.065, 11.066, 11.067, 11.068, 11.069, 11.070, 11.071, 11.072, 11.073, 11.074, 11.075, 11.076, 11.077, 11.078, 11.079, 11.080 [respectively; hw, orange label]’.

PARATYPES (12 ♀♀): ‘Rogez / Madagascar / Mus. Praha [p] // Paratypus [p] / Mezira / madagascariensis / sp. n. ♀ [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label]’.

PARATYPES (3 ♀♀): ‘ Madagaskar [p] // COLL. NICKERL / MUS. PRAGENSE [p, black frame submarginally] // Paratypus [p] / Mezira / madagascariensis / sp. n. ♀ [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label]’.

PARATYPE (♀): ‘Mdgk. Sikora, [p] / Ampasimena p. [hw] // Mus. Caes. / Vindobon. [p] // Paratypus [p] / Mezira / madagascariensis / sp. n. ♀ [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label]’.

PARATYPE (♀): ‘ Madagascar / l. č. 3744 [p] // Paratypus [p] / Mezira / madagascariensis / sp. n. ♀ [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label]’.

Current status. Valid species: Brachyrhynchus madagascariensis ( Hoberlandt, 1957) (see USINGER & MATSUDA 1959, HOBERLANDT 1963, KORMILEV & FROESCHNER 1987, HEISS 2012).