Pseudoscelida metallica ( Jacoby, 1887 ) 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 : 49

Pseudoscelida metallica ( Jacoby, 1887) , comb. nov.

Doridea (?) metallica Jacoby, 1887b: 241 (original description)

Type material examined. SYNTYPES: 1♀, ‘Rawas / 5.78 [grey, h] // Sum. Exp. / Rawas / 5.78 [w, h] // Dorydea ? / metallica Jac. [b, h]’ ( RMNH); photograph of 1 ♀, Sum. Exp. / Loeboe ge / dang / 12/77 [w, h] // Loeb gd. / 12/77. [grey, h] // 1st Jacoby / Coll. [w, p] // Type [p] / 18356 [r, h] // Dorydea / metallica / type. Jac. w, h]’ ( MCZ).

Comments. JACOBY (1887b) described this species from two females and with some doubts classified it in Doridea . Subsequent authors catalogued it in Platyxantha ( WEISE 1924, WILCOX 1973) and most recently REID (1999) transferred it to Taumacera . I examined the syntype deposited in the RMNH, and a photograph of the second female deposited in the MCZ, and in my opinion both syntypes are females of Pseudoscelida based on general habitus. However, this placement is tentative and should be confirmed by male specimens.