Notosacantha marginalis ( Gressitt, 1942 )

Sekerka, Lukáš, Jia, Fenglong, Pang, Hong & Borowiec, Lech, 2016, Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) types deposited at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Zootaxa 4084 (1), pp. 50-78 : 74

Notosacantha marginalis ( Gressitt, 1942)

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Hoplionota marginalis Gressitt, 1942: 1 ; Chen et al., 1986: 426 (synonymy).

Type locality. China, Guangdong Prov., Lianping Co., Jiulianshan Mt., approx. 24°27.3′N, 114°33.8′E, 400–500 m a.s.l.

Original type series. Holotype ( LMNH) and one paratype ( USNM) form the same locality but collected on ‘ Apr. 20 ’.

Type material examined. Holotype, glued: ‘Kwangtung, S. China. | Kau-lin San, 700–900 | M. Lien-pʼing Distr. | April 18, 1940 J. L. | Gressitt and F. K. To. [w, p, cb] || HOLOTYPE | HOPLIONOTA [hw] | MARGINATA [hw] | J.L.Gressitt [r, p + hw by Gressitt, cb] || M-301 [w, hw, cb] || M-1026 [w, hw, cb] ||? sauteri | Peiyu Yu [w, hw in Chinese, s] || Notosacantha | marginalis | (Gressitt) [w, hw by Gressitt, s] || En-289738 | [Data Matrix barcode] SYS [w. p, cb]’; paratype, pinned: ‘Kwangtung, S. China. | Kau-lin San, 700–900 | M. Lien-pʼing Distr. | April 20, 1940 J. L. | Gressitt and F. K. To. [w, p, cb] || PARATYPE | HOPLIONOTA [hw] | MARGINATA [hw] | J.L.Gressitt [y, p + hw by Gressitt, cb] || [vernacular name in Chinese, hw] | Notosacantha [hw] | sauteri Spaeth [hw] | det. Li- Zhong Hua [in Chinese, p] 1987 [hw] [w, p, cb] || En-289739 | [Data Matrix barcode] SYS [w. p, cb]’.

Current status. Synonym of Notosacantha sauteri (Spaeth, 1914) .

Remarks. According to Gressitt (1942) paratype should be deposited in USNM. However, Staines & Staines (1997) do not list any specimen in that collection and the paratype was in fact deposited also in LMNH. The species was synonymized with N. sauteri by Chen et al. (1986) and we confirm the synonymy as there are only minor morphological differences which are subject of intraspecific variability.

Figures

FIGURES 32 – 36. 32. Rhadinosa abnormis Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963 (holotype, 2.8 mm); 33. Rhadinosa tayana Gressitt, 1939 (holotype, 4.4 mm); 34. Notosacantha marginalis (Gressitt, 1942) (holotype, 4.8 mm); 35. N. oblongopunctata (Gressitt, 1938) (holotype, 4.2 mm); 36. N. sinica Gressitt, 1952 (holotype, 4.8 mm).