Eocanthecona gaugleri ( Schneider, 1940 ), 2024

Brugnera, Ricardo, Grazia, Jocelia, Maynard, Andrew & Roca-Cusachs, Marcos, 2024, Delimiting Cantheconidea Schouteden 1907, with the description of a new genus (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae), European Journal of Taxonomy 947, pp. 191-215 : 204

Eocanthecona gaugleri ( Schneider, 1940) comb. nov.

Cantheconidea gaugleri Schneider, 1940: 206 (illustrations and photographs: figs 31, 33–35).

Cantheconidea gaugleri – Thomas 1994: 168.

Type specimen

Lost (see Remarks).

Distribution

Indonesia: Sumatra.

Remarks

In his description of this species, Schneider (1940) provided figures of the dorsal habitus, life cycle, immatures, and prey of the species in a quite complete integrative approach for that time. However, he did not provide ventral characters or a photograph/illustration of the ventral side of the species. In the original publication, Schneider mentioned the Entomologisches Institut der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule, Zürich as the institution where the type of C. gaugleri is stored. This institute existed until 1992 and became the Entomological Collection of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). In his original publication, Schneider also described the lepidopteran species Sura uncariae ( Schneider, 1940) , which should also be at ETH.

Interestingly, the type of this species is missing in the ETH collection (Michael Greeff pers. com.). Additionally, old loan forms, reaching back to 1956, have also been consulted with no positive results (Michael Greeff pers. com.). However, it is worth mentioning that in the original publication by Schneider it says the following (translated into English): “Based on a letter from Dr H.C. Blöte, Rijksmuseum Leiden (currently Naturalis), C. gaugleri is very similar to C. acuta V. Vollenh. ” The curator of the Heteroptera section has tried to locate such specimens at the Naturalis collection, as it would have been possible that the type of C. gaugleri was on loan to Blöte and never returned to the ETH. Despite his efforts, the specimen was not found at Naturalis either (Max Caspers pers. com.).