Rhagovelia tesari 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 : 855

Rhagovelia tesari Hoberlandt, 1941

Rhagovelia tesaři Hoberlandt, 1941: 73–75 , Figs 9–12, 15 (original description).

The holotype and 21 paratypes (including the allotype) are deposited in NMPC:

HOLOTYPE (J apter.): ‘Vohémar / Madagascar [p] // Holotypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / tesaři n. sp. J [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p] // J|J [p]’. (The specimen is card-mounted; left mesotibia and tarsus missing. Right antenna and all legs on right side, and pygophore dissected, mounted on four separate slides deposited in Slide Box 3).

PARATYPES (13 JJ: 2 JJ apter., 11 JJ macr.): ‘Vohémar / Madagascar [p] // Holotypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / tesaři n. sp. J [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p] // J|J [p]’.

PARATYPE (♀ apter.): ‘Vohémar / Madagascar [p] // Allotypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / tesaři n. sp. ♀ [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p] // ♀ | ♀ | ♀ [p]’.

PARATYPES (7 ♀♀ macr.): ‘Vohémar / Madagascar [p] // Paratypus [p, red label with black margins] // Rhagovelia / tesaři n. sp. ♀ [hw] / L. Hoberlandt det. [p]’.

Note. Collection also contains eleven slides with various body parts originating from paratypes (Slide Box 3).

Current status. Valid species: Rhagovelia tesari tesari Hoberlandt, 1941 (see HOBERLANDT 1951c, POLHEMUS & ANDERSEN 2010).