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holotype

[′häl·ə‚tīp]

(systematics)

A nomenclatural type for the single specimen designated as “the type” by the original author at the time of publication of the original description.

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The Holotype, Allotype, Paratype have been deposited in Natural History Museum, Karachi, Pakistan and Paratype in Memon's collection.

Description of Two New Species of Oriental Genus Halys Fabricius (Pentatomoidae, Pentominae, Halyini) from Sindh, Pakistan with a Key of its Nine Asian Species

Fujian: Holotype 2, Fuzhou, Forest Park, 17-VI-1989, ZhiShan Wu, by sweeping (FAFU); Paratypes 2 [female] [female], 2 [male][male], Sanming, 8-VII1987, Chang-Ming Liu, by yellow sticky trap (FAFU).

The species of genus Ablerus Howard (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Azotidae) from China, with description of a new species

The female on the photograph agrees with the male holotype in general characters but its coloration resembles that of the pink variant of E.

The pink katydids of Sabah (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae: Eulophophyllum) with description of two new species

megatheca, clearly indicates that the female previously assigned to this species by Cazorla & Spinelli (2015) was wrongly associated with the holotype male of this species.

Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) curvistyla (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), nueva asociacion de sexos y redescripcion del macho

Notes: Bigot (1879), who did not designate a holotype, only indicated having studied male material so it is likely that the now defective syntype is a male.

A revision of Afrotropical Oligopogon Loew, 1847 (Diptera: Asilidae) with the description of eighteen new species

Such capabilities are especially important in validating or correcting holotype names or descriptions that were made long ago.

Up close and personal with tiny, beneficial wasps

Omixon Holotype HLA offers targeted amplification and library preparation reagents for the entire gene coverage of HLA-A, B, C and DQB1, as well as partial coverage for HLA-DRB1.

Omixon unveils Holotype HLA combined assay and software solution for NGS-based HLA genotyping

6x longer than wide in the holotype, and propodus with palmar corner more projected and subacute than in the original description; pereopod 4, coxa 1.

Primer registro de Eurythenes thurstoni Stoddart & Lowry, 2004 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea) en la Cordillera Mesoatlantica Sur

Comparison of photographs of the holotype of Psallus eximius Reuter on the web site of the Museum Victoria (http://collections.

Resolving the identities of Phylinae (Heteroptera: Miridae) described by O.M. Reuter from Australia in 1904

We located the slide containing the missing holotype genitalia of H.

A new junior synonym for Raptoheptagenia cruentata (Walsh, 1863) and remarks about nearctic Heptagenia Walsh, 1863 (insecta: ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae)

This species was regarded as indeterminable by Hartman (1959:312) but it was redescribed by Fauchald (1992:201); he also selected a lectotype from among the Copenhagen specimens, but this does not appear to be valid since the holotype is in Berlin (Hart wich 1993:114).

Annulata orstediana: publication dates, composition and annotated taxonomic list, with some comments on Hemipodus (Polychaeta: Glyceridae)

Interestingly, the holotype specimen of Talos also tells us something about theropod behavior, particularly raptor behavior.