Mezira insularis Hoberlandt, 1957

Kment, Petr, Kolínová, Zdislava & Heiss, Ernst, 2015, Catalogue of the type specimens of true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic *, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (1), pp. 411-443 : 426

Mezira insularis Hoberlandt, 1957

Mezira insularis Hoberlandt, 1957: 49 (key), 53–56, Figs 49–52 (original description).

The holotype and one paratype (the allotype) are deposited in NMPC:

HOLOTYPE (J): ‘Ambanja / Madagascar / Mus. Praha [p] // Holotypus [p, red label] // Holotypus [p] / Mezira / insularis sp. n. / J [hw] / Det.L.Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 11.028 [hw, orange label]’. (Specimen card-mounted; antennal segments III–IV on both sides, right metatarsus, left protarsus and right mesotibia and mesotarsus missing.)

PARATYPE (♀): ‘Ambodivoangy [hw] / Inst.Scient.Madgascar [p] / (Maroantsetra / le 15-II-49 (PC) [hw] // Allotypus [p, red label] // Allotypus [p] / Mezira / insularis sp. n. / ♀ [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 11.029 [hw, orange label]’.

Current status. Valid species (see USINGER & MATSUDA 1959, HOBERLANDT 1963, KORMILEV & FROESCHNER 1987, HEISS 2012).