Mezira singularis 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 : 429

Mezira singularis Hoberlandt, 1957

Mezira singularis Hoberlandt, 1957: 49 (key), 56–58, Figs 53–54 (original description).

The holotype and one paratype are deposited in NMPC:

HOLOTYPE (J): ‘Ampanefena / Madagascar [p] // Holotypus [p, red label] // Holotypus [p] / Mezira / singularis / sp.n. J [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 11.030 [hw, orange label]’. (Specimen card-mounted; left antennal segments III–IV, left middle leg and right hind leg missing; pygophore detached, dissected male genitalia mounted on a separate piece of card).

PARATYPE (J): ‘Faimaire / Madagascar [hw] // Paratypus [p, red label] // Paratypus [p] / Mezira / singularis / sp.n. J [hw] / Det. L. Hoberlandt, 19[p]52 [hw, red label]’.

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

Remarks. According to the original description, the species was described based on two males, holotype and paratype from ‘Ampana, 1937 F. Lamberton’, deposited in NMPC. According to the labels of the types, the information in the original description seems incorrect.