Afrius williamsi Roell & Lemaître & Webb & Campos 2023
Creators: name: Roell, Talita
name: Lemaître, Valérie A.
name: Webb, Michael D.
name: Campos, Luiz A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cimicidae
Afrius
Afrius williamsi

description: williamsi (Afrius) Miller 1951: 183–184. [Figs 236–246]   
 Original data: “ MAURITIUS: 3 ♁ (including the type), 9 ♀, 1948-49 (J. R. Williams). The type is deposited in the British Museum (Natural History).”   
HOLOTYPE ♁: red-margined holotype disc; red-margined type disc; “ MAURITIUS. Coll. J.R. Williams i.1949.”; “182”; “Pres by Com Inst Ent BM 1950—262”; “ Afrius williamsi sp.n det. N.C.E. Miller. 1950.”; “COM INST ENT. COLL. NO. 11607”; “ Predaceous on Schematiza cordiae, Barb”; “NHMUK 010592172”. Specimen carded; fifth right antennomere, and fourth and fifth left antennomeres missing. Genitalia structures kept in glycerin inside a glass vial pinned with the specimen (Fig. 236).  
PARATYPE ♀: yellow-margined paratype disc; “ MAURITIUS Reduit. Xii.1948 Coll. J.R. Williams ”; “182”; “Pres by Com Inst Ent BM 1950—262”; “ Afrius williamsi sp.n det. N.C.E. Miller. 1950.”; “COM INST. ENT. COLL. NO. 11607”; “ Predaceous on Schematiza cordiae, Barb”; “NHMUK 010592173 Specimen well preserved (Fig. 237).  
PARATYPE ♀: yellow-margined paratype disc; “ MAURITIUS Reduit. Xii.1948 Coll. J.R. Williams ”; “182”; “Pres by Com Inst Ent BM 1950—262”; “ Afrius williamsi sp.n det. N.C.E. Miller. 1950.”; “COM INST. ENT. COLL. NO. 11607”; “ Predaceous on Schematiza cordiae, Barb”; “NHMUK 010747732”. Specimen well preserved (Fig. 238).  
PARATYPE ♀ yellow-margined paratype disc; “ MAURITIUS Reduit. i.1949 Coll. J.R. Williams ”; “182”; “Pres by Com Inst Ent BM 1950—262”; “ Afrius williamsi sp.n det. N.C.E. Miller. 1950.”; “COM INST. ENT. COLL. NO. 11607”; “ Predaceous on Schematiza cordiae, Barb”; “ ♀ ”; “NHMUK 010747733”. Fourth and fifth left antennomeres missing (Fig. 239).  
PARATYPE ♀: yellow-margined paratype disc; “ MAURITIUS Reduit. vi.1948 Coll. J.R. Williams ”; “182”; “Pres by Com Inst Ent BM 1950—262”; “ Afrius williamsi sp.n det. N.C.E. Miller. 1950.”; “COM. INST. ENT. COLL. NO. 11607”; “ Predaceous on Schematiza cordiae, Barb”; “NHMUK 010747734”. Specimen well preserved (Fig. 240).  
PARATYPE ♀: yellow-margined paratype disc; “ Dept. of Agric. MAURITIUS ”; “Pres by Com. Inst. Ent. B.M.1948-38”; “COM. INST. ENT. COLL. NO. 10958”; “182”; “NHMUK 010747735”. Specimen carded; fifth right antennomere, second to fifth left antennomeres, and right middle and posterior legs missing (Fig. 241).  
PARATYPE ♁: yellow-margined paratype disc; “ MAURITIUS Reduit. i.1949 Coll. J.R. Williams ”; “182”; “Pres by Com Inst Ent BM 1950—262”; “ Afrius williamsi sp.n det. N.C.E. Miller. 1950.”; “COM INST. ENT. COLL. NO. 11607”; “ Predaceous on Schematiza cordiae, Barb”; “NHMUK 010747736”. Second to fifth right antennomeres, fifth left antennomere, and right posterior leg missing; wings opened (Fig. 242).  
PARATYPE ♁: yellow-margined paratype disc; “ MAURITIUS Reduit A. Moutia 11.v.1948 ”; “Pres by Com. Inst. Ent. B.M.1948-38”; “COM. INST. ENT. COLL. NO. 10958”; “ Preying on Schematiza cordiae”; “182”; “NHMUK 010747737”. Specimen well preserved (Fig. 243).  
PARATYPE ♀: yellow-margined paratype disc; “ MAURITIUS Reduit. i.1949 Coll. J.R. Williams ”; “ Afrius williamsi sp.n. det. N.C.E. Miller. 1950.”; “Press by Com Inst Ent B M 1950—262”; “COM INST. ENT. COLL. NO. 11607”; “182”; “ Predaceous on Schematiza cordiae, Barb”; “NHMUK 010747738”. Specimen well preserved (Fig. 244).  
PARATYPE ♀: yellow-margined paratype disc; “ MAURITIUS Reduit. i.1949 Coll. J.R. Williams ”; “ Afrius williamsi sp.n. det. N.C.E. Miller. 1950.”; “COM INST. ENT. COLL.NO. 11607”; “Press by Com Inst Ent B M 1950—262”; “182”; “ Predaceous on Schematiza cordiae, Barb”; “NHMUK 010747739”. Specimen well preserved (Fig. 245).  
PARATYPE ♀: yellow-margined paratype disc; “ Dept. of Agric. MAURITIUS Reduit 19.iv.1948 J.R. Williams ”; “Pres by Com. Inst. Ent. B.M.1948-38”; “COM. INST. ENT. COLL. NO. 10958”; “182”; “NHMUK 010747740”. Specimen well preserved (Fig. 246).  
 Current status: Afrius (Subafrius) flavirostrum (Signoret, 1861) (synonymised by Roell et al. 2019: 15).   
 Note: Apparently, one female paratype is missing.
description: Published as part of 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, pp. 1-105 in Zootaxa 5232 (1) on pages 95-96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5232.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7609794