Graptostethus dixoni Distant

Kondorosy, El Ő D, Lyal, Christopher Henry Coutts & Webb, Michael Donald, 2006, Nomenclatorial changes in Oriental Lygaeinae seed bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeidae), Zootaxa 1383, pp. 45-56 : 49

Graptostethus dixoni Distant

G. dixoni Distant, 1903: 10 –11; Slater, 1964: 51.

New placement: Aspilocoryphus dixoni (Distant) , comb. nov.

Material examined. Syntype ɗ Graptostethus dixoni Distant , with the following labels: 1. Museum circular red-margined label with “ TYPE ” pr; 2. “ dixoni Dist. ” hwr; 3. “Khandala. Dixon.” hwr; 4. “Distant Coll. 1911-383.” pr.

Syntypes 1 ɗ, 3 ΨΨ, 2? (without abdomen) Graptostethus dixoni Distant , with the following labels: 1. “ Bombay (Dixon)” hwr; 3. “Distant Coll. 1911-383.” pr.

Remarks. Originally described from an unspecified number of specimens (syntypes) from “ Bombay; Khandala (Dixon).”. This species must be excluded from Graptostethus on the grounds that the vertex and orificium are black, and there is a transverse white spot on the anterior part of the tegminal membrane. These characters place the species in the genus Aspilocoryphus . It is very similar to A. mendicus ( Fabricius, 1775) , and probably identical with it, but the type material of the latter has not been seen, and therefore synonymy is deferred.