Lepidiota townsvillensis Blackburn, 1912

Allsopp, Peter G., 2020, Clarification of the status of the types of Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) described before 1950, Zootaxa 4885 (4), pp. 451-486 : 473

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2E69687C-74B4-4087-9BF6-039F5FE14A9E

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4340887

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C264702F-452C-3508-2BE7-99FEFE78FDF7

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scientific name

Lepidiota townsvillensis Blackburn, 1912
status

 

Lepidiota townsvillensis Blackburn, 1912

Lepidiota townsvillensis Blackburn, 1912 :

Lectotype (designated by Britton 1978: 62) male: Type H. T. (circular red ringed, typeset) | 7896 Townsv. [Townsville, 19.26°S, 146.82°E] (handwritten in red) T. (handwritten) | Blackburn coll. 1910-236 (typeset) | Lepidiota townsvillensis, Blackb. (handwritten) | my lectotype label; in NHML. GoogleMaps

Blackburn (1912) described this species from two males; the ‘type’ was sent to NHML ( Lea 1912). Britton (1978) referred to a “ holotype ” male in NHML and a “ paratype ” male in SAM. Houston & Weir (1992) interpreted Britton’s (1978) incorrect reference to a holotype as a lectotype designation and the reference to a paratype as a paralectotype designation. Given that Britton (1978) clearly nominated the specimen in NHML as the holotype, I follow Houston & Weir (1992) in accepting a lectotype designation by Britton (1978) (Article 74.5). I could not find the second specimen in SAM.

Blackburn, T. (1912) Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. No. XLII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 36, 40 - 75.

Britton, E. B. (1978) A revision of the Australian chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Vol. 2. Tribe Melolonthini. Australian Journal of Zoology, Supplementary Series, 60, 1 - 150. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / AJZS 060

Houston, W. W. K. & Weir, T. A. (1992) Melolonthinae. In: Houston, W. W. K. (Ed.), Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea. Vol. 9. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, pp. 174 - 358.

Lea, A. M. (1912) The late Rev. Canon Thomas Blackburn, B. A., and his entomological work. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 36, v-xl.

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

NHML

Natural History Museum, Tripoli

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Melolonthidae

SubFamily

Melolonthinae

Tribe

Melolonthini

Genus

Lepidiota