Velia rhadamantha Hoberlandt, 1941

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 : 860-861

Velia rhadamantha Hoberlandt, 1941

Velia rhadamantha Hoberlandt, 1941b: 160–162 , Figs 4 –5, 16–18 (original description).

The holotype and 7 paratypes (including the allotype) are deposited in NMPC:

HOLOTYPE (J macr.): ‘Knossos, Creta / Mařan et Štěp. / 1934. Coll Bartoň [p] // Holotypus [p, red label with black margins] // Velia [hw] / 19[p]41 rhadamantha / n. sp. J [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’ (see Figs 1−2 ).

PARATYPE (J macr.): ‘Knossos, Creta / Mařan et Štěp. / 1934. Coll Bartoň [p] // Paratypus [p, red label with black margins] // Velia [hw] / 19[p]41 rhadamantha / n. sp. J [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’. (Male genitalia dissected, glued on a separate piece of card attached to the same pin).

PARATYPE (J macr.): ‘Nida - Ida montes / Creta, V, 1934 / Coll Bartoň [p] // Paratypus [p, red label with upper and bottom margins black] // Velia [hw] / 19[p]41 rhadamantha / n. sp. [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p] J [hw]’. (The specimen is card-mounted, left antenna, all legs on left side, and pygophore are dissceted, mounted in three separate slides stored in Slide Box 4).

PARATYPE (♀ macr.): ‘Knossos, Creta / Mařan et Štěp. / 1934 Coll Bartoň [p] // Allotypus [p, red label with black margins] // Velia [hw] / 19[p]41 rhadamantha / L. Hoberlandt det. [p] / n. sp. ♀ [hw]’.

PARATYPE (♀ macr.): ‘Knossos, Creta / Mařan et Štěp. / 1934. Coll Bartoň [p] // Paratypus [p, red label with black margins] // Collectio / L. Hoberlandt [p] // Velia [hw] / 19[p]41 rhadamantha / n. sp. [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p] ♀ [hw]’.

PARATYPES (3 ♀♀ macr.): ‘Knossos, Creta / Mařan et Štěp. / 1934. Coll Bartoň [p] // Paratypus [p, red label with black margins] // Velia [hw] / 19[p]41 rhadamantha / n. sp. [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p] ♀ [hw]’.

Note. Collection also includes three separate slides containing head with antennae, all legs and male genitalia, originally indicated as originating from the holotype, clearly in mistake (Slide Box 4).

Current status. Valid species: Velia (Plesiovelia) rhadamantha rhadamantha Hoberlandt, 1941 (see TAMANINI 1947, 1965; ANDERSEN 1995a).

Remark. The status of the single male paratype from Nida-Ida Mts. is controversial. HOBER- LANDT (1941b) did not explicitely mention the specimen as paratype in the original description, as he did in case of paratypes from Knossos. However, the original labels of the specimen and the slides of its dissected body parts clearly state Hoberlandt’s intention to include it as paratype, and absence of the statement is merely an omission in the original text.

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).