Cosmovalgus ferranti Moser, 1912

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 : 108-109

Cosmovalgus ferranti Moser, 1912 Figure 14

Cosmovalagus Ferranti Ferrant, 1911: 255 nomen nudum, misspelling.

Cosmovalgus Ferranti Moser, 1912: 574 (type locality: “Kondué, Congo-belge"); Heuertz 1954: 32.

Holotype.

Ed. Luja / Kondué / Congo-Belge // Donateur 1452a / Ed, Luja, / Lux[em]b[our]g V.1907 // Cosmovalgus / Ferranti Mos. [handwritten by Moser] // 3978, 1♂.

Remarks.

Though two males of the collection carry the label of type, the species was described from only one male ("Der vorliegende ♂ ist …”) measuring 10 mm in body length. Luja collected these specimens during his second mission in Kondué. As for Euphoresia alboparsa and Amaurina vittipennis , both specimens preserved in the MNHNL do not show the wording “type”, but considering that Moser did not use standardised labels, the one bearing Moser’s label should be deemed as the holotype.