Pygoplatys (s. str.) bovillus Stål, 1871

Magnien, Ph., 2011, Description of two new species of Pygoplatys Dallas, 1851, with a key to the species of the genus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tessaratomidae), Heteropterus Revista de Entomología 11, No. 2, pp. 287-297 : 294

Pygoplatys (s. str.) bovillus Stål, 1871

Type material (and designation):

1 ♂ and 2 ♀♀, preserved in NHRS .

The specimens are pinned, and all three have the same original printed label: «Ins. Philipp / Semper. / type ». There is also a red, printed label, «Typus» for the male, and «Paratypus» for the females .

Those red, printed labels were probably added by a curator and represent no guarantee (G. Lindberg, pers. comm.).

The indication on the printed labels perfectly matches the original description. Stål indicate that he has seen male and female of this species, without any indication of number. In fact, the series consists of three syntypes, one male and two females. The red labels are not consistent with the work of Stål, who did not designate a type in his paper, and no type designation appears in the subsequent literature, which, apart from the comparison made by Distant (1893) with his newly described P. lunatus , consists only of catalogue quotations. I have no clue about who put the red type labels and when it was done.

The male specimen is therefore here designated as the lectotype, and the two females as paralectotypes. The following red labels have been added to the male: « Pygoplatys bovillus Stål, 1871 / Lectotype / Ph. Magnien des. 2010» and to the females: « Pygoplatys bovillus Stål, 1871 / Paralectotype / Ph. Magnien des. 2010».

The present designation is made in the context of a review of the genus Pygoplatys , the present paper being the third contribution to this review.