Paryphes miniaceus Blanchard 1844

Paryphes miniaceus Blanchard, 1844 (Fig. 7 E-H) Paryphes miniaceus Blanchard, 1844: 210, pl. 30, fig. 2. TYPE SPECIMEN. — Lectotype, here designated. Bolivia • 1 ♀; 8896 34; 574; Paryphes miniaceus; Paratipo; Laminiceps conjunctus Brailovsky, H. Brailovsky A. det.; MNHN-EH-EH 30842. DISTRIBUTION GIVEN BY BLANCHARD. — Guarayos, Bolivia. D’ORBIGNY’S CATALOGUE NOTES. — Forests inhabited by the Guarayos Indians, between Chiquitos and Mojos, December 1831. On the leaves of a single thorny shrub from the middle of the woods. VALID NAME. — Laminiceps miniaceus (Blanchard, 1844) n. comb., Laminiceps conjunctus Brailovsky, 1992 n. syn. REMARKS The species was transferred to the genus Sephina by Stål (1870), and after that it was only mentioned in catalogues (CoreoideaSF Team 2025); until 2021, when Brailovsky & Barrera (2021) gave an illustrated key to the known species in the Spartocerini genus Sephina. In this work, S. miniacea is included in the key and a dorsal photograph of a supposed female syntype from the collection in Wien Museum is given. Unfortunately, there is no information in the paper about the labels accompanying the specimen or why the authors assume it is a syntype, but this specimen clearly does not correspond to the species described and illustrated by Blanchard, and it could probably belong to an undescribed species of Sephina. Blanchard’s syntype specimen belongs to the tribe Acanthocephalini Stål, 1870. Brailovsky (1992) described Laminiceps conjunctus from Peru and Bolivia, basing his description on a female holotype from Tarapoto, Peru, and including additional paratypes: three males from Bolivia, and five females, two from Peru and three from Bolivia. Among these last three females, he included the female specimen deposited in MNHN as “without data” (ignoring the data that can be retrieved by following the numbers in the green and whitish labels). Remarkably, the locality record of Blanchard’s specimen is consistent with the distribution of this new taxon. On this way, Brailovsky included the female syntype of Paryphes miniaceus (here designated as lectotype) into the type series of the new species L. conjunctus. To correct this confusion, we give the new combination for P. miniaceus, and the resulting synonymy.