Mezira insularis Hoberlandt, 1957

Kment, Petr, Kolínová, Zdislava & Heiss, Ernst, 2015, Catalogue of the type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic *, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (1), pp. 411-443 : 426

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scientific name	Mezira insularis Hoberlandt, 1957
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Mezira insularis Hoberlandt, 1957: 49 (key), 53–56, Figs 49–52 (original description).

The holotype and one paratype (the allotype) are deposited in NMPC:

HOLOTYPE (J): ‘Ambanja / Madagascar / Mus. Praha [p] // Holotypus [p, red label] // Holotypus [p] / Mezira / insularis sp. n. / J [hw] / Det.L.Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 11.028 [hw, orange label]’. (Specimen card-mounted; antennal segments III–IV on both sides, right metatarsus, left protarsus and right mesotibia and mesotarsus missing.)

PARATYPE (♀): ‘Ambodivoangy [hw] / Inst.Scient.Madgascar [p] / (Maroantsetra / le 15-II-49 (PC) [hw] // Allotypus [p, red label] // Allotypus [p] / Mezira / insularis sp. n. / ♀ [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 11.029 [hw, orange label]’.

Current status. Valid species (see USINGER & MATSUDA 1959, HOBERLANDT 1963, KORMILEV & FROESCHNER 1987, HEISS 2012).

References

HEISS E. 2012: Annotated catalogue of the flat bug family Aradidae Brulle, 1836 of Madagascar and adjacent islands (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Zootaxa 3426: 45 - 63.

HOBERLANDT L. 1957: Aradoidea (Heteroptera) of Madagascar and adjacent islands. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, Supplementum 4: 1 - 109.

HOBERLANDT L. 1963: Additional notes on Aradidae (Heteroptera) from Madagascar and adjacent islands. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 35: 127 - 170.

KORMILEV N. A. & FROESCHNER R. C. 1987: Flat bugs of the World. A synonymic list (Heteroptera: Aradidae). Entomography. Vol. 5. Entomography Publications, Sacramento, California, 245 pp.

USINGER R. L. & MATSUDA R. 1959: Classification of the Aradidae (Hemiptera-Heteroptera). British Museum (Natural History), London, vii + 410 pp.