Menida distanti 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 : 290

Menida distanti Horváth, 1893

( Figs 56–58 )

Menida distanti Horváth, 1893: 258 (original description).

Menida Distanti : LETHIERRY & SEVERIN (1893):174 (catalogue); SCHOUTE- DEN (1909): 62 (list); SCHOUTEDEN (1910b): 90 (diagnosis, distribution); JEANNEL (1913): 94 (distribution).

Menida distanti : KIRKALDY (1909b): 132 (catalogue); LESTON (1952c): 518 (distribution); LESTON (1953):54 (distribution); DESCAMPS (1954): 177 (record, host plant); LESTON (1955): 700 (junior synonym of M. transversa , distribution); VILLIERS (1956a): 211 (distribution); LINDBERG (1958): 30 (distribution); HERTING (1971): 89 (predator).

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

Type material examined. SYNTYPE: 1 ( HNHM), ‘Holub [p, pink] // Distanti [Horváth’s hw] / det. Horváth [p, “det.” corrected to “typ.” by hw of Horváth] // Menida / Distanti Horv [Horváth’s hw]’ (mounted on triangle, right flagellum, tibiae and tarsi of right fore and hind legs, and left hind leg lacking) ( Figs 56–58 ).

Topotypic material examined. 1 ♀ ( NMPC), ‘Holub [p] // COLL.NIC- KERL / MUS. PRAGENSE [p with p frame submarginally] // Menida / Distanti [hw, white label] // ♀ [p // ‘topotype, not syntype / MENIDA (Menida) / DISTANTI / Horváth, 1893 / det. P. KMENT 2018’ [p]’ (mounted on triangle).

Current status. Junior synonym of Menida (Menida) transversa transversa ( Signoret, 1861) ( LESTON 1955: 700). Distribution of Menida transversa transversa . Angola ( LESTON 1955, no exact record), Cameroon ( DESCAMPS 1954, as M. distanti ), Cape Verde Islands ( LINDBERG 1958), Ethiopia ( LINDBERG 1958, no exact locality),

Guinea ( VILLIERS 1956a), Ghana ( LINNAVUORI 1982a), Kenya ( SCHOUTEDEN 1910b), Madagascar ( SIGNORET 1861, as Rhaphygaster transversus; CACHAN 1952), Nigeria ( LINNAVUORI 1982a), Seychelles Islands:Aldabra ( DISTANT 1913, as doubtful; GERLACH & MADL 2013), Somalia ( LINNAVUORI 1982b), South Africa ( LESTON 1952 c, 1953), South Sudan ( LINNAVUORI 1975), Sudan ( LINNAVUORI 1975), Tanzania ( SCHOUTEDEN 1910b), Zimbabwe (LES- TON 1953); Saudi Arabia ( RIDER 2006, no exact locality), Yemen ( LINNAVUORI 1989).

Remarks. This species was described based on an unspecified number of male(s) ( HORVÁTH 1893); a single male syntype is deposited in the HNHM, a non-type female in NMPC.

Figures

Figs 50–62. Habitus and labels of type specimens.50–52 – Caura modesta Horváth, 1893 [= Parantestia cincticollis (Schaum, 1853)],♀, lectotype; 53–55 – Diloxys holubi Horváth, 1893 [= Coponia holubi],, lectotype; 56–58 – Menida distanti Horváth, 1893 [= Menida transversa transversa (Signoret, 1861)],, syntype; 59–62 – Stollia crucifera Horváth, 1893 [= Cosmopepla cruciaria Stål, 1872], ♀, neotype. Scale bars in mm. (Photo: D. Rédei).