Taumacera paradoxa ( Laboissière, 1936 ) Bezděk, 2019

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 : 39

Taumacera paradoxa ( Laboissière, 1936) , comb. nov.

Acroxena paradoxa Laboissière, 1936: 240 (original description)

Type material examined. SYNTYPES: 1 ♂, ‘ Tonkin / Lac Tho / HOA BINH / A. de Cooman [w, p] // COTYPE [red letters, w, p] // Acroxena / paradoxa / m [h] / V. Laboissière – Dét. [w, p]’ ( MNHN); 1 ♀, ‘ Hoa Binh / de Cooman [w, h] // Acroxena / paradoxa / Labois / paratype [w, h]’ ( MNHN); 1 ♂, ‘ Tonkin / Lac Tho / HOA BINH / A. de Cooman [w, p] // Acroxena / paradoxa m [h] / V. LABOISSIÈRE DÉT. [p] / Paratype ♂ [w, h] // Para- / type [orange, p] // cf. Ann. Soc. Ent. / Fr., [p] CV, 1936 / p. 240-241, fig. 43 [w, h] // R. Mus. Hist. Nat. / Belg. I. G. 12.752 [w, p]’ ( ISNB); 1 ♂, ‘TYPE [red letters, p] / ♂ [w, h] // Hoa-Binh / de Cooman [w, h] // Acroxena / paradoxa / m [h] / V. Laboissière – Dét. [w, p] // Le Moult Vend. / via Reinbek / Eing Nr. 1, 1957 [white w, p]’ ( ZMUH).

Comments. Based on the presence of a metasternal process and the strongly modified head in the male I here transfer Acroxena paradoxa to Taumacera .