Platynopus silvaticus, (Platynopus)

Roell, Talita, Lemaître, Valérie A., Webb, Michael D. & Campos, Luiz A., 2023, An annotated and illustrated Type Catalogue of the predacious Shieldbugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) in the Collection of the Natural History Museum, London, Zootaxa 5232 (1), pp. 1-105 : 78

silvaticus (Platynopus) Distant 1890b: 475. [ Fig. 184 ]

Original data: “ Collection of Rhynchota made at Yambuya on the River Aruwimi, by Mr. W. Bonny of the Emin Pasha Relief expedition under Mr. H. M. Stanley. ” [syntype (s)]

SYNTYPE ♀: blue-margined syntype disc; red-margined type disc; “Yambuya R. Aruwimi (Bonny)”; “ silvaticus Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “Distant Coll. 1911–383.”; “NHMUK 010592150”. Third to fifth right antennomeres, second to fifth left antennomeres, and legs (except the right middle leg) missing; abdomen partially disjointed from thorax ( Fig. 184 ).

Current status: Planopsis silvatica (Distant, 1890) (see Schouteden 1907: 50; Bergroth 1908: 182; Thomas 1994: 194).

Note: In the original description, the words “antennae mutilated” may mean that Distant just described the species from this single specimen, but we cannot be sure; there may have been many, all with antennae mutilated; we therefore consider the specimen a syntype.

Figures

FIGURES 177–184. Type and non-type specimens deposited in NHMUK. 177, Podisus sculptus; 178, Bodetria scutellaris; 179, Platynopus scutellatus; 180–181, Mormidea semialba; 182–183, Platynopus semiscitus; 184, Platynopus silvaticus. Scale bars: 4 mm.