Protosmylinae Krüger, 1913: 29

Martins, Caleb Califre & Price, Benjamin W., 2020, An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the Osmylidae collection (Neuroptera) at the Natural History Museum, London, Zootaxa 4883 (1), pp. 1-61 : 29

Subfamily Protosmylinae Krüger, 1913: 29

Original combination: Chrysopa pubicosta Walker, 1860: 183

Current combination: Gryposmylus pubicosta ( Walker, 1860)

Type locality: [“Hindostan”], India, northern (no further locality data).

Lectotype (sex undetermined) with labels: ( Fig. 29 )

Condition of type: bad condition, costal region of right forewing and radial region of left forewing damaged.

Missing parts: scape, pedicel and flagellomeres of both antennae, medial right tarsomeres, posterior right tarsomeres.

Comments: Winterton & Wang (2016) revised the genus Gryposmylus Kr ̹ger, 1913 and designated this speci-men as lectotype of this species. In the original description Walker (1860) described this species as belonging to Chrysopa Leach, 1815 (a Chrysopidae genus), however Kr̹ger in 1913 added this species to the genus Gryposmylus (Osmylidae) .

Figures

FIGURE 29..Lectotype of Chrysopa pubicosta Walker, 1860 (NHMUK010214361, sex undetermined). Labels: (1) printed on white circular paper with a green edge: “Type”; (2) handwritten on faded white paper: “Ind”; (3) handwritten on faded white paper: “33”; (4) printed with handwritten inscriptions on faded white paper: “Chrysopa pubicosta Walk./ Type/ Det. D.E. Kimmins.”; (5) printed on white paper: “NHMUK010214361/ also encoded in one datamatrix barcode”.