Acledra (Acledra) punctata Reed, 1898

Faúndez, Eduardo I., 2010, A new synonymy in the genus Acledra Signoret, 1864 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae), Zootaxa 2572, pp. 65-67 : 65

Acledra (Acledra) punctata Reed, 1898

= Acledra (Acledra) hians Breddin, 1914 n. syn.

Comments. Reed (1898) wrote that he had two specimens. Only one ♀ was found in the NMNH collection, and the other specimen is apparently lost .

As was noted by Faúndez & Verdejo (2009) for the junior synonym of this species, the male is not well known. Breddin (1914) described the species on the basis of one male and one female, but not did give figures of genital structures. Only the female of this type series is deposited in the Deutsches Entomologisches Institut ( Germany) ( Faúndez & Verdejo 2009); thus the male is practically unknown.

The type locality is the same for both A. (A.) punctata and A. (A.) hians , Valparaíso [33º02’S – 71º36’W] (Valparaíso Region, Chile). In Faúndez & Verdejo (2009) a faunistic reference ( Porter 1928) was omitted, where A. (A.) hians was cited from Panimávida [35º45’S – 71º24’W] (Maule Region, Chile); therefore, the species is distributed from Valparaíso to Maule Regions in Central Chilean Subregion ( Morrone 2001) (fig. 2).