Lederia arctica ( Horn, 1893 )

Pollock, Darren A., 2015, Lectotype designations in Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Boridae and Mycteridae, based on material in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), Insecta Mundi 2015 (427), pp. 1-15 : 5-6

Lederia arctica ( Horn, 1893)

( Fig. 31–32 )

Mecroscapha [lapsus] arctica Horn 1893: 144 (type locality: Fort Wrangel, Alaska)

Microscapha arctica lectotype (sex unknown), labeled: “Ft. Wrangel, Alaska. Wickham. / 51 / LectoTYPE 8041 / [handwritten] Crioscapha arctica Horn / MCZ Type 34042 / LECTOTYPE Microscapha arctica Horn design. Pollock 2000”. [lectotype by present designation]. A second syntype was mentioned in the original description, but is not in MCZ. This species was described in the genus “ Mecroscapha ”— clearly a lapsus, since the genus is correctly spelled as “ Microscapha ” later in the description. Also,

Horn (1893: 144) stated that “should it be thought advisable to separate the two [ M. clavicornis and M. arctica ] the name Crioscapha may be used for arctica .”

Figures

Figure 26–36. Dorsal and lateral habitus of newly designated lectotypes. 26. Melandrya striata var. bicolor Melsheimer, lectotype, lateral habitus. Scale line = 2.0 mm. 27–28. Melandrya striata var. thoracica Melsheimer, lectotype. 27) Dorsal habitus. 28) Lateral habitus. Scale lines = 5.0 mm. 29–30. Hypulus fulminans LeConte, lectotype. 29) Dorsal habitus. 30) Lateral habitus. Scale lines = 1.0 mm. 31–32. Microscapha arctica Horn, lectotype. 31) Dorsal habitus. 32) Lateral habitus. Scale lines = 0.5 mm. 33–34. Microscapha clavicornis LeConte, lectotype. 33) Dorsal habitus. 34) Lateral habitus. Scale lines = 1.0 mm. 35–36. Orchesia castanea Melsheimer, lectotype. 35) Dorsal habitus. 36) Lateral habitus. Scale lines = 2.0 mm.