Macrorhaphis ( Megarhaphis ) acuta Dallas, 1851

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 : 19

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scientific name	Macrorhaphis ( Megarhaphis ) acuta Dallas, 1851
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acuta ( Macrorhaphis?) Dallas 1851: 88 . [ Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–8 ]

Original data: “ ♂”. “a. Congo. Presented by Sir John Richardson, M.D.” [ syntype (s)] .

SYNTYPE ♂: blue-margined syntype disc; red-margined type disc; rectangular orange label “HOLOTYPUS ♂”; “ Congo / 43 56”; “2. MACRORHAPHIS ACUTA ,”; “NHMUK 010592174”. Carded specimen; third to fifth left antennomeres, and fourth and fifth right antennomeres missing ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–8 ) .

Current status: Macrorhaphis ( Megarhaphis) acuta Dallas, 1851 (see Schouteden 1907: 39, for the subgeneric placement.).

Note: Walker (1867a: 129) listed a unique specimen of Dallas’s species and it is likely that Dallas just had one (especially as Dallas had stated only one measurement and noted: “Antennae pale brown, with the apex of the third and fourth joints pitchy ( fifth wanting).” [emphasis ours]. Still, we cannot be certain and therefore consider the specimen a syntype, although G. Schmitz had placed a holotype male label on the specimen. Thomas (1994: 185) did not mention having seen the type under the material he examined.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Pentatomidae
Genus	Macrorhaphis