Agraptocorixa stepaneki Hoberlandt, 1942

Kment, Petr & Kolínová, Zdislava, 2013, Catalogue of type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (2), pp. 821-890 : 827

Agraptocorixa stepaneki Hoberlandt, 1942

Agraptocorixa štěpáneki Hoberlandt, 1942a: 47–50 , Figs 1 –11 (original description).

The holotype and two paratypes are deposited in NMPC:

HOLOTYPE (J): ‘Ambanja / Madagascar / Mus Praha [p] // Holotypus [p, red label with black margins] // I-i936. / F. Lamberton [hw] // Agraptocorixa / štěpáneki n. sp. J [hw, red ink] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 11.121 [hw, orange label]’. (Only head + pronotum and rest of thorax without wings and legs + base of abdomen are glued separately to a piece of card, remaining body parts mounted in a series of 7 slides stored in Slide Box 1).

PARATYPE (J): ‘Ambanja / Madagascar / Mus Praha // I. i936. / F. Lamberton [hw] // Paratypus [p, red label with black margins] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 11.122 [hw, orange label] // Paratypus [hw, red ink] / Agraptocorixa [hw, black ink] / 19[p]42 štěpáneki sp. n. [hw, black ink] / J [hw, black ink] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’. (Male genitalia dissected, preserved dry in a glass microvial attached to the same pin).

PARATYPE (J): ‘Ambanja / Madagascar / Mus Praha [p] // Paratypus [p, red label with black margins] // I. i936. / F. Lamberton [hw] // Agraptocorixa / stepaneki Hob. / Paratypus J - i942 [hw] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 11.123 [hw, orange label]’.

Current status. Valid species (see POISSON 1951, 1963).

Figures

Figs 1−4. Type labels of Ludvík Hoberlandt. 1−2 – Velia rhadamantha Hoberlandt, 1941, holotypus, characteristic style of labels in the 1940s; 3−4 – Sigara samani Hoberlandt, 1952, characteristic labels for the 1950s and later period. (Photos: L. Macháčková).