nigrispina (Arma) Dallas 1851: 99 . [Figs 123–124]

Original data: “ ♂ ♀ ”; “a. Brazil. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq.” [syntypes (male and female)]

LECTOTYPE ♀ (designated by Thomas 1992: 89): purple-margined lectotype disc; red-margined type disc; “ Brazil / 45 67”; “19. ARMA NIGRISPINA,”; “NHMUK 010592328”. Left hemelytron, fourth and fifth right and left antennomeres, anterior legs, left middle leg, and posterior legs missing (Fig. 123).

PARALECTOTYPE ♂: blue-margined paralectotype disc; “ Brazil / 45 67”; “ Arma nigrispina Walker’s catal.”; “NHMUK 010747393”. Second to fifth right and left antennomeres, and right anterior leg missing (Fig. 124) .

Current status: Podisus nigrispinus (Dallas, 1851) (see Stål 1868: 497).

Note: Dallas had at least two specimens since he mentioned male and female. Indeed, Walker (1867a: 137) listed two specimens from the same provenance. Yet Thomas (1992: 89) only reported one: “the type of Arma nigrispina, a female, was located in the British Museum (Natural History). It is labeled: (a) “ Brazil,” (b) “Type,” (c) “19. Arma nigrispina .”” By giving its labels data and calling the specimen “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).