Taumacera fulvicollis ( Jacoby, 1881 )

Bezděk, Jan, 2019, Taumacera revisited, with new synonyms, new combinations and a revised catalogue of the species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 59 (1), pp. 23-52 : 33-34

Taumacera fulvicollis ( Jacoby, 1881)

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Neocharis fulvicollis Jacoby, 1881: 448 (original description)

Platyxantha femoralis Allard, 1889b : cxv (original description); JACOBY (1894b): 197 (synonymized with Neocharis fulvicollis )

Thaumacera drescheri Weise, 1922: 85 (original description); REID (1998): 288 (synonymized with Neocharis fulvicollis )

Type material examined. Neocharis fulvicollis : SYNTYPES: 1 ♀, ‘ Java / Fruhstorf [w, p] // Jacoby Coll. / 1909-28a [w, p] // fulvicollis Jac. / ( Nacrea maculata Baly ).[grey, p]’ ( BMNH) ; photograph of 1♂, ‘ Java [w, p] // 1st Jacoby / Coll. [w, p] // Type. [p] / 18343 [r, h]’ ( MCZ).

Platyxantha femoralis: Not examined, not found in ISNB (Limbourg 2017, pers. comm.).

Thaumacera drescheri : SYNTYPES: 1♀, ‘SEMARANG / DRESCHER [w, p] // 12 [h] 19 [p] 06 [w, h] // Drescheri m [w, h] // Typus [r, p]’ ( NHRS); 1 ♀, ‘SEMARANG / DRESCHER [p] / 10 [h] 19 [p] 05 [w, h] // [blank, round blue label] // ♀ [w, h] // Drescheri / m. [w, h] // Typus [r, p]’ ( NHRS).

Additional material examined. INDONESIA: BALI: Buleleng District, Tamblingan – Danau, Tamblingan (lake), montane forest around lake, 08°16.1′S, 115°05.5–9′E, 1250 m, 19.–21.ii.2015, 1 ♀, J. Hájek & J. Šumpich leg. ( NMPC). JAVA: Buitenzorg, 1 ♀, Strickland leg. ( NMPC). SUMATRA: Medan, 1 ♀ ( NMPC); Langkat, Balei Gadjah, 1 ♂ ( NMPC).

Comments. Neocharis fulvicollis was described from Java. Three females from Soekaranda in Sumatra (ZMHB) collected by Dohrn (two of them dated 1894) and labelled as cotypes of ‘ Metellus fulvicollis ’ do not belong to the type series of Neocharis fulvicollis . In my opinion all three females are conspecific with Taumacera constricta Mohamedsaid, 2002 .

REID (1998) synonymized Thaumacera drescheri with T. fulvicollis without examination of the type material. I examined two syntypes (females) of T. drescheri deposited in NHRS. In my opinion the specimens belong to two different species due to different colouration of elytra and neither is conspecific with T. fulvicollis . However, male(s) explicitely described in the original description agree fairly well with T. fulvicollis . Thus, for now I follow REID (1998) and treat T. drescheri as a synonym of T. fulvicollis until I have the oportunity to study male syntype (s).

Figures

Figs 64–73. Habitus of Taumacera. 64– T. musaamani (Mohamedsaid, 2010) (male); 65 – T. cervicornis (Baly, 1861) (male); 66 – T. lewisi (Jacoby, 1887) (male); 67 – T. lewisi(female, holotype of Aenidea hirtipennis Jacoby, 1887); 68 – T. mirabilis (Jacoby, 1887) (male, holotype); 69 – T. unicolor (Jacoby, 1887) (male, holotype); 72 – T. costatipennis (Jacoby, 1896) (male, syntype); 71 – T. deusta Thunberg, 1814 (male, holotype); 72 – T. deusta (male, holotype of Nacrea apicipennis Baly, 1886); 73 – T. fulvicollis (Jacoby, 1881) (female, syntype).