Phyllobaenus lateralis (Gorham, 1883: 169)

Leavengood, John M. & Garner, Beulah H., 2014, Nomenclatural notes on some checkered beetle (Coleoptera: Cleridae) types of the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH), Zootaxa 3760 (3), pp. 301-335 : 310-311

Phyllobaenus lateralis (Gorham, 1883: 169)

( Fig. 17 )

Original combination. Hydnocera lateralis

= Phyllobaenus chapini ( Wolcott, 1927: 81) [ Hydnocera chapini ], new synonymy Comments. The elytral and pronotal shapes described to distinguish lateralis from chapini were produced from a limited sample of specimens which did not properly illustrate their variation. The eyes, proportions of the head and pronotum, and parallel to sinuate elytral forms vary within the species and include intermediate forms. The plasticity in elytral margins and apices is typical of other Phyllobaenus species with the same elytral form (e.g., P. subulatus ).

Types. Gorham indicated eleven specimens. Seven are in the BMNH and three are in the MNHN. One syntype was deposited in another museum. While all are from the same locality, there are specimens bearing labels with different elevations from the type locality. The specimen marked “ type ” was collected at “ 2 – 3000 ft.” For now, only BCA specimens from the type locality with this elevation (of which 10 have been located) are considered to be part of the type series.

Series/ Type locality. Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama.

LECTOTYPE / PARALECTOTYPE (here designated): Syntype 1+2/7 [round, blue-bordered label], Type [round, red-bordered label], V. de Chiriqui, 2 – 3000 ft, Hydnocera lateralis Gorham, Champion, B. C. A. Col. III (2), Hydnocera lateralis Gorham (BMNH; 2 specimens on a single card mount; the lectotype indicated by LT and the paralectotype indicated by PLT, written on the card mount). PARALECTOTYPES: Syntype 3+4/7 [round, blue-bordered label], V. de Chiriqui, 2 – 3000 ft, Champion, B. C. A. Col. III (2), Hydnocera lateralis Gorham (BMNH; 2 specimens on a single card mount); Syntype [round, blue-bordered label], V. de Chiriqui, 2 – 3000 ft, Champion, B. C. A. Col. III (2), Hydnocera lateralis Gorham (BMNH; 3, with 5/7, 6/7, and 7/7 on the Syntype labels); V. de Chiriqui, 2 – 3000 ft, Champion, Hydnocera lateralis Gorham , Museum Paris Coll Gorham 1914 [blue label], Museum Paris ex. Coll. R. Oberthur [blue label] (MNHN; 2, sharing a card mount); V. de Chiriqui, 2 – 3000 ft, Champion, Museum Paris Coll Gorham 1914 [blue label], Museum Paris ex. Coll. R. Oberthur [blue label] (MNHN; 1).

Figures

FIGURES 17 – 20. Fig. 17) Phyllobaenus lateralis (Gorham), Lectotype [right] and Paralectotype [right] (left); Fig. 18) P. scapularis (Gorham), Lectotype (BMNH); Fig. 19) P. subvittatus (Gorham), two Paralectotypes (BMNH); Fig. 20) P. subulatus (Gorham); Lectotype (BMNH).