Taumacera submetallica ( Jacoby, 1896 ) 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 : 44

Taumacera submetallica ( Jacoby, 1896) , comb. nov.

( Fig. 102 )

Platyxantha submetallica Jacoby, 1896a: 494 (original description)

Type material examined. SYNTYPES: 1 ♀, ‘Co- / type [white round label with yellow collar, p] // SUMATRA / SI-RAMBÉ / XII.90-III.91 / E. MODIGLIANI [w, p] // Museo Civ. / Genova [orange, p] // Jacoby Coll. / 1909-28a [w, p] // Platyxantha / submetallica / Jac. [b, h]’ ( BMNH); 1 ♀, ‘ SUMATRA / SI-RAMBÉ / XII.90-III.91 / E. MODIGLIANI [w, p] // Typus [red letters, w, p] // submetallica / Jac. [w, h] // Platyxantha / submetallica / Jac. [b, h]’ ( MSNG).

Comments. JACOBY (1896a) described this species from two specimens and classified it in Platyxantha . This was followed by WEISE (1924). For an unknown reason, WILCOX (1973) classified it in Polexima which probably caused it to be omitted by REID (1999). I examined both syntypes (females) deposited in the BMNH and MSNG. Because the assignment in Polexima is evidently wrong as it is an African genus, I tentatively transfer P. submetallica to Taumacera . However, the correct generic placement can only be resolved when a male is discovered.As mentioned already by JACOBY (1896a) Platyxantha multicostata and P. submetallica could belong to a single species as they were collected at the same locality (Si-Rambé) and differ only in the body length and paler colouration of the elytral disc in P. submetallica .

Figures

Figs 94–104. Habitus of Taumacera. 94– T.variceps (Laboissière, 1933) (male); 95 – T.viridis (Hope, 1831) (male, syntype); 96 – T.coxalis (Jacoby, 1899) (female, syntype); 97 – T. jacobyi Weise, 1922 (male, syntype of Dorydea costatipennis Jacoby, 1896); 98 – T. javanensis Jacoby, 1895 (male, syntype); 99 – T. kinabaluensis (Mohamedsaid, 1995) (male); 100 – T. monstrosa (Jacoby, 1899) (male); 101 – T. multicostata (Jacoby, 1896) (female, syntype); 102 – T. submetallica (Jacoby, 1896) (female, syntype); 103 – T. sumatrana (Jacoby, 1899) (male); 104 – T. variabilis (Jacoby, 1891) (male, syntype).