Eidoporisminae Esben-Petersen, 1917: 3

Martins, Caleb Califre & Price, Benjamin W., 2020, An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the Osmylidae collection (Neuroptera) at the Natural History Museum, London, Zootaxa 4883 (1), pp. 1-61 : 8-9

Subfamily Eidoporisminae Esben-Petersen, 1917: 3

Original combination: Eidoporismus pulchellus Esben-Petersen, 1917: 4

Current combination: Eidoporismus pulchellus Esben-Petersen, 1917

Type locality: [“ Sydney”], Australia, New South Wales (state), Sydney (city) (3°51’54”S, 151°12’35”E). Holotype ♀ (by monotypy) with labels: ( Fig. 1 )

Condition of type: good condition, meso- and metathorax glued on the pin, apex of right hindwing damaged.

Missing parts: left flagellomeres, apical right flagellomeres.

Comments: Esben-Petersen (1917) incorrectly attributed Eidoporismus to Kr̹ger (in litt.) when describing E. pulchellus . The author mentioned that the specimen was collected by Tillyard (Robert “Robin” John Tillyard), who was his friend and also forwarded to him a small lot of interesting material (see introduction of Esben-Petersen 1917). The specimen was part of Tillyard’s collection, which was donated to the NHM by Mrs Patricia “Pattie” Tillyard in 1939.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Holotype of Eidoporimus pulchellus Esben-Petersen, 1917 (NHMUK010594040, female). Labels: (1) printed on white circular paper with a red edge: “Type”; (2) handwritten on faded white paper: “Sydney”/ handwritten on the reverse side of the same paper: “6”; (3) printed with handwritten inscription on faded white paper: “Eidosmylus pulchellus/ Type/ E-P./ det. Esben-Petersen”; (4) printed on faded white paper: “Brit. Mus. 1939-45”; (5) printed on white paper “NHMUK010594040/ also encoded in one datamatrix barcode”.