Tagalina flavolineata, Brindle

Miles, Claire, 2015, The Earwig Collection (Dermaptera) of the Manchester Museum, UK, with a complete type catalogue, European Journal of Taxonomy 141, pp. 1-138 : 123

flavolineata Brindle (Tagalina) MS

Figs 62–63

Type material

1 ♂, paratype, F3233.1864 ( Fig. 62 ), dried, mounted on pin.

Locality label

Museum Leiden / Nieuw Guinea Exp K.N.A.G. 1939 / Araboebirak 11-x-1939.

Determination label

Manchester Museum Paratype // Tagalina ♂ / flavolineata Brindle / det. A. Brindle 1980 / paratype.

Taxonomy

Pygidicranidae , Pygidicranidae , Tagalina .

Remarks

Found recently in a box separate from the collection. A note written by A. Brindle pinned next to the specimen reads “ Tagalina flavolineata n. sp. (paratype for Manchester) (holotype in Leiden). Not yet described (paper not written)” ( Fig. 63 ).

The holotype and allotype have been confirmed to be at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden (L. Willemse, pers. comm.), labelled Tagalina flavolineata and bearing Brindle’s determination label.

Figures

Figs 59–63. Other material, presumed manuscript names, in the collection of the Manchester Museum. 59. Nesogaster spatulus Brindle (det. 1983). 60. Metalabis subcarinata Brindle (det. 1987). 61. Carcinophora rossi Hincks (no date). 62. Tagalina flavolineata Brindle (det. 1980). 63. Brindle’s handwritten label for the Tagalina flavolineata specimen (Fig. 62). Scale bars = 1 cm.