Oechalia virgula, (Oechalia)

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 : 94-95

virgula (Oechalia) Van Duzee 1936: 220. [ Fig. 232 ]

Original data: “ Paratypes, 3 males taken with the holotype, six males taken at Kilauea , Hawaii, at 4,000 ft., Jan. 19, 1917 (W. M. Giffard), and one female taken at same place Aug. 5, 1919 (O. H. Swezey); two dark males taken in the Dry Forest , Hawaii, Jan. 1917 (Muir and Giffard) ; one female from Mt. Tantalus at 1,300 ft. (W. M. Giffard) ; one female from Alakai Swamp, Kauai , July 1917 (C. N. Forbes) ; one female from Kahuku, Kau , Hawaii, on “a-a” flows at 1,800 ft., May 29, 1918 (W. M. Giffard).”

PARATYPE ♁: yellow-margined paratype disc; “Kilauea, Haw. 19-I-17 4000 ft. ”; “ W. M. Giffard Coll. ”; “ Coll. F. Muir ”; “ Oechalia virgula Van D. Det. by R.L. Usinger ”; “ PARATYPE virgula EP Van Duzee ”; “Brit. Mus . 1947-80”; “NHMUK 010592459”. Right middle and posterior legs missing; abdomen partially disjointed from thorax ( Fig. 232 ) .

Current status: Oechalia virgula Van Duzee, 1936 .

Note: Van Duzee had noted: “The types of the new species here described have been placed in the Bishop Museum.” Our paratype was presented to NHMUK on 3/1/1947 by Dr. R. L. Usinger. It is one of the four male paratypes with similar data that Usinger (1941: 84) mentioned to be at hand (out of the six in the original description).

Figures

FIGURES 225–232. Type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 225, Gilva varipes; 226, Arma ventralis; 227, Oplomus ventralis; 228, Jalloides versicolor; 229, Oplomus violaceus; 230–231, Oechalia virescens; 232, Oechalia virgula. Scale bars: 4 mm.