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 4885 4 451 486 journal article 9372 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.4.1 00507d5f-328a-4506-8b7f-132a7df3786d 1175-5326 4296848 2E69687C-74B4-4087-9BF6-039F5FE14A9E 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 .