Important missing specimen data are provided for the original description of Ozophora woodruffi Slater (2005: 245) (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae), along with additional comparative relationships. Because of the missing type information, according to ICZN rules (1999), the species became a nomen nudum. This paper now serves to validate the name, and authorship becomes Slater (2012)

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Woodruff, Robert E.

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CENTER FOR SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY, INC., Gainesville, FLCorrigenda to and validation of Ozophora woodruffi Slater 2005(Hemiptera:  Lygaeidae)Robert E. Woodruff3517 N.W. 10th Ave.Gainesville, FL 32605James A. Slater (deceased)Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ConnecticutStorrs, CT 06269Date of Issue: October 26, 20120253INSECTAMUNDI A Journal of World Insect SystematicsRobert E. Woodruff and James A. Slater (deceased)Corrigenda to and validation of Ozophora woodruffi Slater 2005 (Hemiptera:Lygaeidae)Insecta Mundi 0253: 1-2Published in 2012 byCenter for Systematic Entomology, Inc.P. O. Box 141874Gainesville, FL 32614-1874 USAhttp://www.centerforsystematicentomology.org/Insecta Mundi is a journal primarily devoted to insect systematics, but articles can be published onany non-marine arthropod. Topics considered for publication include systematics, taxonomy,  nomencla-ture, checklists, faunal works, and natural history. 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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons,Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduc-tion in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/10253: 1-2 2012Corrigenda to and validation of Ozophora woodruffi Slater 2005(Hemiptera:  Lygaeidae)Robert E. Woodruff3517 N.W. 10th Ave.Gainesville, FL 32605bobsgems@aol.comJames A. Slater (deceased)Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ConnecticutStorrs, CT 06269Abstract. Important missing specimen data are provided for the original description of Ozophora woodruffi Slater(2005: 245) (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae), along with additional comparative relationships. Because of the missing typeinformation, according to ICZN rules (1999), the species became a nomen nudum. This paper now serves to validatethe name, and authorship becomes Slater (2012).IntroductionHaving spent much of his career collecting insects in the Caribbean, the senior author was honoredto have 2 species named for him in the same publication on West Indian insects Baranowski and Slater2005). One of these, Ninyas woodruffi, was described by R.M. Baranowski (2005: 73), and the other wasOzophora woodruffi by J. A. Slater (2005: 245-246). Unfortunately for the latter, an apparent computerglitch (printer’s error) eliminated important data (type label data, type depository, distribution, and aparagraph with comparative information). According to the International Code of Zoological Nomencla-ture, Article 16.4 (ICZN 1999), that name thus became a nomen nudum.Dr. Slater was unable to correct this printing error before his death, but he sent the missing informa-tion to Dr. Woodruff, asking him to prepare it for publication. In an effort to correct this lapsus andvalidate the name, this manuscript was prepared. As originally intended, the species and its descriptionare to be attributed to Slater, but the date is that of this publication (2012). The original description isrepeated here in its entirety to avoid any confusion. New information is indicated in boldface. All mea-surements are in millimeters.Ozophora woodruffi Slater, new speciesDescription. Head, distal end of third antennal segment, apical two-thirds of fourth antennal segment,meson of anterior pronotal collar, area on posterior pronotal lobe immediately anterior to scallopedyellow posterior margin, head and thoracic pleura and sternum black. Pronotum dark red-brown overentire anterior pronotal lobe including lateral margins, becoming lighter on anterior half of posteriorlobe, but this area interrupted by several narrow dark transverse stripes and shading to black posteri-orly; humeral pronotal angles pale yellow, as is complete posterior pronotal margin. Anterior pronotalcollar on each side of dark meson pale yellow. Scutellum pale gray and pruinose on anterior half,contrastingly reddish brown with a pair of posteriorly tapering yellow dashes on this area, apex white.Hemelytra yellowish with dark punctures and irrorate with a series of transverse dashes, spots, andlines. Corium with a with a dark marginal quadrate macula at level of apex at claval commissure. Apexof corium also with a dark macula. Apical corial margin pale red distally, variegated with dark and lightareas on anterior two-thirds. Membrane dark, not irrorate, slightly paler at apex and with two curvingouter veins white. Abdominal sternum reddish brown. Legs, first and second antennal segments and2 • INSECTA MUNDI 0253, October 2012 WOODRUFF AND SLATERlabium light yellow. Middle and hind femora with a somewhat suffused dark subdiscal annulus, especiallydiffused on mesofemur.Dorsal surface lacking upstanding hairs.Head only slightly declivent, tylus extending anteriorly only over proximal one-third of first anten-nal segment.Length head 1.10, width 1.00, interocular space 0.70. Pronotum with humeral angles rounded,length pronotum 1.16, width 1.72. Scutellum lacking a distinct median carina, but slightly swollendistad of pruinose anterior area. Length scutellum 1.12, width 0.90. Length claval commissure 1.14.Corium laterally nearly parallel sided. Midline distance apex clavus-apex corium 1.44. Midline distanceapex corium-apex membrane 1.58. Metathoracic scent gland auricle moderately curving, somewhat scimitarshaped. Forefemur slightly incrassate, armed below with four sharp black tuberculate spines on distalhalf. Labium extending posteriorly between metacoxae. Length labial segments I: 0.90, II: 0.90, III: 0.84,IV: 0.44. Antennae elongate, slender, terete, fourth segment moderately fusiform. Length antennal seg-ments I: 0.80, II: 1.90, III: 1.48, IV: 1.84 (approx.). Total body length 7.63.Holotype male. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Prov. La Vega, La Cienega de Manabao, Park Hdqt.,3-5-VII-1999, R.E. Woodruff. In Florida State Collection of Arthropods.Paratypes: 1 male, 3 females. Same data as holotype. In Florida State Collection ofArthropods, R.M. Baranowski, and J.A. Slater collections.Variation. Although the paratypes resemble the holotype in most respects, the females particularlyhave a vestige of a pale median line on the anterior portion of the minuscule pronotal lobe. Two femaleshave a well developed apical pale membrane macula and the other specimens have pale spotting distallyon the membrane.Etymology. Named for Dr. R.E. Woodruff in recognition of his extensive collecting in the West Indies.Comments. Although this species will key to O. triangularis in our key because of the irroratecorium, it is not closely related to that species, but rather appears to be most closely related toO. rubrolinea Slater. This species is readily separable from O. triangularis in addition to the pale colorof the latter by having a relatively shorter head as noted in the key.AcknowledgmentsI thank Dr. Joe Eger, Dr. Thomas Henry, Dr. J. Howard. Frank, and Dr, Christian Thompson, forproviding peer reviews and helpful suggestions. I enjoyed several Dominican collecting trips with Dr.Richard M. Baranowski, Dr. Thomas Henry, and Dr. Lionel Stange.Literature CitedBaranowski, R.M., and J.A. Slater. 2005. The Lygaeidae of the West Indies. University of Florida,Florida Agriculture Experiment Station Bulletin 205: x+266 p.ICZN [Internation Commission of Zoological Nomenclature]. 1999. International Code of Zoo-logical Nomenclature. International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, The Natural History Mu-seum; London, UK. 306 p.Received June 11, 2012; Accepted August 30, 2012.

Corrigenda to and validation of Ozophora woodruffi Slater 2005 (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae)

Woodruff, Robert E., Slater, James A. (2012): Corrigenda to and validation of Ozophora woodruffi Slater 2005 (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae). Insecta Mundi 2012 (253): 1-2, DOI: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.517493

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