Clarification of the status of the types of Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) described before 1950
Author
Allsopp, Peter G.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-11-27
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10.11646/zootaxa.4885.4.1
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Pseudholophylla furfuracea
(
Burmeister, 1855
)
Holophylla furfuracea
Burmeister, 1855: 426
.
Pseudholophylla furfuracea
:
Blackburn 1911: 196
.
Lectotype
(here designated) male (
Fig. 37
):
furfuracea T. Holl.
n. [
New Holland
,
Australia
] Ull. (handwritten by
Burmeister
(compare
Horn & Kahle 1937
:
Tafel
XXI,
Fig. 31
), purple label with black border) | my
lectotype
label; in
ZMH
.
Burmeister (1855)
did not define the type series, seeing an unknown number of males (vide Articles 73.1.2, 72.1.1).
Britton (1978)
and
Houston & Weir (1992)
listed a “
holotype
” male from Neu-Holland in ZMH. As
Britton (1978)
and
Houston & Weir (1992)
provided no discussion and did not label any specimen in ZMH, neither mention of a
holotype
constitutes a valid
lectotype
designation (vide Article 74.5). To stabilise nomenclature, I designate the specimen in ZMH the
lectotype
.