Anoplognathus flavipennis Boisduval, 1835

Seidel, Matthias & Reid, Chris A. M., 2021, Taxonomic changes resulting from a review of the types of Australian Anoplognathini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) housed in Swedish natural history collections, Zootaxa 4908 (2), pp. 225-238 : 227-228

Anoplognathus flavipennis Boisduval, 1835

Anoplognathus flavipennis Boisduval, 1835: 176 ; revised status

Anoplognathus castaneipennis Laporte, 1840: 126 ; Burmeister 1844: 446 (synonymy)

Anoplognathus flavipennis quadrimaculatus Ohaus, 1898: 34 ; Carne 1957: 140 (synonymy)

Anoplognathus brunnipennis sensu aucttorum nec Gyllenhal

Types. Anoplognathus flavipennis Boisduval, 1835 : lectotype (present designation): ϐ: “229 / 35. // flavipennis // A. rugosus / Kirby. / Nlle Hollande // ANOPLOGNATHUS / BRUNNIPENNIS / (GYLLENHAL) / Det:A.B.T.Smith 2001 // TYPE // MNHN / EC1440” (MNHN); paralectotypes (3): ♀: “229 / 35. // TYPE // MNHN / EC1441 ” ( MNHN) ; ♀: “229 / 35. // A. flavipennis / Boisd. / Nlle Hollande // TYPE // MNHN / EC1442 ” ( MNHN) ; ♀: “229 / 35. // TYPE // MNHN / EC1443 ” ( MNHN) .

Remarks. A lectotype is designated here for A. flavipennis to fix its identity ( Fig. 2 A–C). The lectotype of Anoplognathus brunnipennis ( Fig. 1 A–D) was not seen by Carne (1957) and he misinterpreted the species. Carne (1957) erroneously synonymized A. flavipennis and A. flavipennis quadrimaculatus with A. brunnipennis . Anoplognathus flavipennis ( Fig. 2 A–P) is the valid name for this misidentified species, as it is the oldest available name. Anoplognathus flavipennis was considered a valid species until Carne’s (1957) revision of the genus, for example by Ohaus (1898), and old specimens labelled A. flavipennis by W.S. MacLeay in MMS are correctly identified. The validity of the synonymization of A. castaneipennis and A. flavipennis quadrimaculatus (described as a colour variety of A. flavipennis ) with A. brunnipennis aucttorum nec Gyllenhal, as proposed by Burmeister (1844) and Carne (1957), was not examined in this work.

Anoplognathus flavipennis is a fairly common species from northwest Sydney to southern Queensland (AMS). This species is distinguished by the setose clypeus, setose dull pygidium, and short rounded mesoventral process ( Reid & Smith 2016; Burleigh & Reid 2017).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Lectotype females of Anoplognathus brunnipennis (Gyllenhal, 1817) (A–D) and Rutela chloropyga Thunberg, 1822 (E–H). A, E, Dorsal habitus; B, F, ventral habitus; C, G, lateral habitus; D, H, frontal view.

FIGURE 2. Lectotype male (A–D) and paralectotype females (E–P) of Anoplognathus flavipennis Boisduval, 1835 [photographs courtesy of MNHN]. A, E, I, M, Dorsal habitus; B, F, J, N, ventral habitus; C, G, K, O, caudal view; D, H, L, P, labels.