Rhagovelia pexa Hoberlandt, 1941

Kment, Petr & Kolínová, Zdislava, 2013, Catalogue of type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2), pp. 821-890 : 854

Rhagovelia pexa Hoberlandt, 1941

Rhagovelia pexa Hoberlandt, 1941a: 68–69 , Figs 1–2 , 13 (original description).

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

HOLOTYPE (J apter.): ‘Vohémar / Madagascar [p] // Holotypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / pexa n. sp. J [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’. (The specimen is card-mounted; right antenna, middle and hind leg, and pygophore dissected, mounted on four separate slides deposited in Slide Box 3).

PARATYPE (J apter.): ‘Vohémar / Madagascar [p] // Paratypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / pexa n. sp. J [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’.

PARATYPE (J apter.): ‘Ambania / Madagascar / Mus Praha // Paratypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / pexa n. sp. J [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’.

PARATYPE (J apter.): ‘ Madagascar / Env. de Rogez // Paratypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / pexa n. sp. J [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’.

PARATYPE (♀ apter.): ‘Vohémar / Madagascar [p] // Allotypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / pexa n. sp. ♀ [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’. (The specimen is card-mounted; left metatibia and metatarsus missing. Right antenna and all legs on right side dissected, mounted on a separate microscopic slide deposited in Slide Box 3).

PARATYPES (2 ♀♀ apter.): ‘Vohémar / Madagascar [p] // Paratypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / pexa n. sp. ♀ [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’.

Note. Collection also includes ten slides with various body parts from paratypes (Slide Box 3).

Current status. Valid species (see HOBERLANDT 1951c).

Figures

Figs 1−4. Type labels of Ludvík Hoberlandt. 1−2 – Velia rhadamantha Hoberlandt, 1941, holotypus, characteristic style of labels in the 1940s; 3−4 – Sigara samani Hoberlandt, 1952, characteristic labels for the 1950s and later period. (Photos: L. Macháčková).