Myocoris nigriceps Burmeister, 1835

Gil-Santana, Helcio R. & Oliveira, Jader, 2023, A new genus and a new species of wasp-mimicking Harpactorini (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae, Harpactorinae), with an updated key to the Neotropical genera, ZooKeys 1152, pp. 163-204 : 163

Myocoris nigriceps Burmeister, 1835

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Myocoris nigriceps Burmeister, 1835: 226 [description], 1838: 105 [redescription]; Stål 1859: 370 [citation], 1872: 83 [catalog]; Walker 1873b: 128 [catalog]; Lethierry and Severin 1896: 178 [catalog]; Wygodzinsky 1949: 42 [catalog]; Maldonado 1990: 236 [catalog].

Type material examined.

Myocoris nigriceps . Syntype [sex not determined; abdomen absent]: [printed label]: 2773 // [printed label]: Zool. Mus. / Berlin // [printed red label]: Typus // [handwritten label]: nigriceps / Br // [handwritten green label]: Bahia Sello. // [printed label]: [at left side]: QR CODE, [at right side]: MfN URI / http://coll.mfn- / berlin.de/u/ / 915662; Female syntype: [handwritten label]: 2773 // [printed label]: Zool. Mus. / Berlin // [printed red label]: Paratypus // [handwritten label]: Myocoris / nigriceps / Burm. / Paratypus // [handwritten green label]: Bahia / Sello // [printed label]: [at left side]: QR CODE, [at right side]: MfN URI / http://coll.mfn- / berlin.de/u/ / bc0135 (MFNB).

In the Hemimetabola Collection of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany (MFNB) there are two type specimens of M. nigriceps . A specimen without abdomen, and sex not determined, labeled as “Typus”, catalog number MfN URI http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/915662 (Figs 1-4 ), and a female labeled as “paratypus”, catalog number MfN URI http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/bc0135 (Figs 5-8 ). Both of them are considered here as syntypes, following Art. 73.2 of the ICZN.

Figures

Figures 1 - 8. Myocoris nigriceps Burmeister, 1835, syntypes deposited in MFNB 1 - 4 sex not determined, catalog number MfN URI http: // coll. mfn-berlin. de / u / 915662 1 dorsal view 2 ventral view 3 lateral view 4 labels 5 - 8 female, catalog number MfN URI http: // coll. mfn-berlin. de / u / bc 0135 5 dorsal view 6 lateral view 7 head, anterior view 8 labels. The copyright of these images is property of the MFNB. Scale bars: 5.0 mm (1 - 3, 5, 6); 1.0 mm (7).