Ochterus barberi Schell, 1943

Kment, Petr, Carapezza, Attilio & Jindra, Zdeněk, 2020, Taxonomic catalogue of the family Ochteridae with description of Ochterus papaceki sp. nov. from Socotra Island and Tanzania (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1), pp. 23-64 : 35

Ochterus barberi Schell, 1943

Ochterus barberi Schell, 1943a: 32 , 35 (key to species, illustration). LECTOTYPE (designated by SCHELL 1943b: 42, as holotype):, USA: Arizona: ‘ Colorado Canyon’ [= Grand Canyon of Colorado River] (USNM).

Ochterus barberi : SCHELL (1943b): 41 –42 (original description, differential diagnosis); DRAKE (1952): 74 (checklist); MENKE (1979): 125 (distribution, illustration); POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS (1988a): 542 (catalogue); POLHEMUS (1992b): 442 (note on type labels); HECKMAN (2011): 287, 463 (key to species, illustration); POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS (2016): 17, 30–33 (key to species, redescription, illustrations).

Distribution. Nearctic Region: USA: Arizona ( SCHELL 1943b; DRAKE 1952; POLHEMUS 1973; POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1976, 1988a, 2016; STEVENS & POLHEMUS 2008), California ( MENKE 1979; POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1988a, 2016), Colorado ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016), New Mexico ( DRAKE 1952; POLHEMUS 1973; POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1988a, 2016); Mexico: Sonora ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 1988a, 2016).

Note. SCHELL (1943b) also listed paratypes [actually paralectotypes] from Orizaba, in the Mexican state of Veracruz, but these specimens have proven on closer examination to represent females of O. aeneifrons ( POLHEMUS & POLHEMUS 2016).

The revision of American Ochterus including the description of O. barberi was published divided in two parts, first published in January 1943 ( SCHELL 1943a) and second in April 1943 ( SCHELL 1943b). The species was first introduced in the key, which is sufficient to make it available ( ICZN 1999: Art. 13.1.1), without any mention of type specimens ( SCHELL 1943a: 32), while the original description including the holotype designation appeared in the second part ( SCHELL 1943b: 41). As a holotype is defined as ‘the single specimen upon which a new nominal species-group taxon is based in the original publication’ ( ICZN 1999: Art. 73.1), in this case, the subsequently designated ‘holotype’ must be considered the lectotype according to ICZN (1999: Art. 74.5).