Sphaenognathus lindenii Murray, 1857

Bezděk, Aleš, Boucher, Stéphane, Hájek, Jiří & Cas, Biology Centre, 2017, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57 (1), pp. 279-293 : 282-283

Sphaenognathus lindenii Murray, 1857

Sphaenognathus Lindenii Murray, 1857: 222 , Pl. III, Figs 1, 1a, 1b, 2, 2a, 2b.

Sphaenognathus Lindenii Murray, 1858: 209 , Pl. X, Figs 1, 1a, 1b, 2, 2a, 2b.

One paralectotype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. Nickerl).

PARALECTOTYPE (♀): ‘162 [p] // Murray,typ!, Dohrn coll.[hw] // Coll.Nickerl,Mus.Pragense [p] // TYPUS [p, red label, black margin]’ // Sphaenognathus lindenii / Murray, 1857 / Paralectotypus / des.A. Bezděk, 2016 [p, red label]’.

Current status. Valid species.

Remark. Murray published the article with description of S. lindenii nearly simultaneously in two different journals ( MURRAY 1857, 1858). The description was based on an unstated number of specimens of both sexes. Murray had numerous specimens at his disposal ( MURRAY 1857: 225); he supplied some of them to other entomologists ( MURRAY 1857: 222). The designation of lectotype was published by CHALUMEAU & BROCHIER (2007). Because there is no doubt about the authenticity of the specimen housed in NMPC, we consider it an additional paralectotype.

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