Picromerus robustus, (Picromerus)

Roell, Talita, Lemaître, Valérie A., Webb, Michael D. & Campos, Luiz A., 2023, An annotated and illustrated Type Catalogue of the predacious Shieldbugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) in the Collection of the Natural History Museum, London, Zootaxa 5232 (1), pp. 1-105 : 75

robustus (Picromerus) Distant 1879: 48. [ Figs 170–171 ]

Original data: “ ♁ ♀ ”; “ Sadia [“north of Brahmaputra”], 350 feet.” “collected by Mr. A. W. Chennell, of the Indian Topographical Survey”. [syntypes (male and female)]

SYNTYPE ♁: blue-margined syntype disc; red-margined type [H. T.] disc; “Sadia 350 ft. (Chennell)”; “robustus (type) Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “Distant Coll. 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592160”. Fourth and fifth right and left antennomeres, anterior legs, and posterior legs missing ( Fig. 170 ).

SYNTYPE ♀: blue-margined syntype disc; “Sadia 350 ft. (Chennell)”; “Distant Coll. 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592162”. Right antenna, fourth and fifth left antennomeres, right middle and posterior legs, and left anterior and posterior legs missing ( Fig. 171 ).

Current status: Eocanthecona robusta ( Distant, 1879) (see Thomas 1994: 177).

Note: Thomas (1994: 177) did not mention having examined types, only “[d]etermined specimens in BM(NH).”

Figures

FIGURES 169–176. Type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 169, Strachia reciproca; 170–171, Picromerus robustus; 172, Stiretrus ruficeps; 173, Dolycoris rutherfordi; 174, Oplomus rutilus; 175, Strachia saturata; 176, Podisus sculptus. Scale bars: 4 mm.