semialba (Mormidea) Walker 1868: 553 . [Figs 180–181]

Original data: “ a, b. Constancia, Rio Janeiro. Presented by the Rev. H. Clark. ” [two syntypes]

LECTOTYPE ♂ (designated by Thomas 1992: 80): purple-margined lectotype disc; green-margined type disc; “CONSTANCIA Jany 1857. H. Clark.”; “ Mormidea semialba .”; “NHMUK 010592333”. Fourth and fifth right and left antennomeres missing (Fig. 180).

PARALECTOTYPE ♂: blue-margined paralectotype disc; “CONSTANCIA Jany 1857. H. Clark. ”; “Pentatoma Mormidea semialba Walker’s catal”; “ Asopinae 198 Podisus semialbus Walk ”; “NHMUK 010592334”. Specimen carded; third to fifth right antennomeres missing (Fig. 181) .

Current status: Podisus semialbus (Walker, 1868) (see Distant 1900a: 58).

Note: Thomas (1992: 80) explained: “The type, a male, was located in the British Museum (Natural History). It is labeled: (a) “Type,” (b) “Constancia, Jan 1857, H. Clark,” (c) “ Mormidea semialba .”” Walker lists two specimens and we have found two. By giving the labels data for one of them and calling it “the type”, Thomas has “unambiguously selected [this] particular syntype to act as the unique name-bearing type of the taxon” (ICZN 1999, Art. 74.5).