Myocoris nugax Stal , 1872

Gil-Santana, Helcio R. & Oliveira, Jader, 2023, A new genus and a new species of wasp-mimicking Harpactorini (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Reduviidae, Harpactorinae), with an updated key to the Neotropical genera, ZooKeys 1152, pp. 163-204 : 163

Myocoris nugax Stal, 1872

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Myocoris nugax Stål, 1872: 83 [description]; Lethierry and Severin 1896: 178 [catalog]; Wygodzinsky 1949: 42 [catalog]; Maldonado 1990: 236 [catalog].

Xystonyttus nugax (Burm.); Haviland 1931: 150 [wrong combination and authorship; record from Guyana; comments on difficulties of determination: possible misidentification].

Note.

Stål (1872) described M. nugax based on an unspecified number of female specimens from Brazil and cited "Mus. Holm." (NHRS) as the depository of the type specimen(s). Currently, only one type specimen of M. nugax was found there and it is without its abdomen (G. Lindberg pers. comm.) (Figs 9-11 ). Consequently, it is not possible to be sure about its gender, but possibly it is a female taking into account that Stål (1872) mentioned only the female of the species in his description. It is considered a syntype accordingly to Art. 73.2 of the ICZN. Photographs of this specimen allow observing the shorter postantennal spine and the humeral angle without acute prominence, as described by Stål (1872) (Figs 9 , 11 ).

Figures

Figures 9 - 12. Myocoris nugax Stal, 1872, syntype, sex not determined, deposited in NHRS, catalog number NHRS-GULI 000000052, photographs provided by Gunvi Lindberg, 2022 Naturhistoriska riksmuseet. Made available by the Swedish Museum of Natural History under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License, CC-BY 4.0, https: // creativecommons. org / licenses / by / 4.0 / legalcode 9 dorsal view 10 ventral view 11 lateral view 12 labels.