Amaurina ferranti Moser, 1911

Vitali, Francesco, 2019, Catalogue of the types of the Scarabaeidae in the National Museum of Natural History of Luxembourg (Coleoptera), ZooKeys 814, pp. 95-114 : 104

Amaurina ferranti Moser, 1911 Figure 10

Amaurina Ferranti Moser, 1911a: 125 (type locality: “Zambèze”).

Amarina Ferranti Ferrant, 1911: 255; Heuertz, 1954: 32 misspelling.

Holotype.

M[ont]. Morrumbala / Zambèze 1899 / Ed. Luja // Donateur 1415a / Ed, Luja, / Lux[em]b[our]g VI.1902 // Amaurina / Ferranti Mos. Type [handwritten by Moser] / J. Moser determ. 1911 [printed] // 3882, 1♂.

Remarks.

The collection label contains an incorrect date, as Luja was employed by the Portuguese Company of Zambezi in a coffee plantation on Mount Morrumbala (Mozambique) from spring 1900 to January 1902 ( Luja 1951). Heuertz (1954) provided some erroneous data as well by claiming that Luja started his mission in Zambezi in 1901. According to the description ( Moser 1911a), another specimen, donated by Ferrant himself, was preserved in the author’s collection.

Current status.

Leucocelis (Amauroleucocelis) ferranti (Moser, 1911): Krajcik 2012: 142.