Hoplosaenidea dohertyi ( Jacoby, 1894 ) 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 : 48

Hoplosaenidea dohertyi ( Jacoby, 1894) , comb. nov.

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Platyxantha dohertyi Jacoby, 1894a: 328 (original description)

Type material examined. SYNTYPES: 1♀, ‘Type / H. T.[white round label with red collar, p] // S. E. Borneo / Doherty [w, h] // Jacoby Coll. / 1909- 28a [w, p] // Platyxantha / dohertyi / Jac. [b, h]’ ( BMNH); photograph of 1 ♂, ‘Tameang Lajang / S. E. Borneo [w, p] // Platyxantha / Dohertyi Jac. / ex Tring coll. [b, h] // Type. [p] / 18345 [r, h]’ ( MCZ).

Comments. Platyxantha dohertyi was classified in different genera by various authors. WILCOX (1973) catalogued it in Polexima, MOHAMEDSAID (1998a) transferred it to Hoplosaenidea based on examination of a syntype in the MCZ, and finally MOHAMEDSAID (2004) transferred it to Taumacera without any explanation. Based on the study of a female syntype deposited in the BMNH and a photograph of the male syntype from the MCZ, I fully concur with MOHAMEDSAID (2004) that Platyxantha dohertyi belongs to Hoplosaenidea . The reason why Mohamedsaid transferred it later to Taumacera is unknown to me.

Figures

Figs 105–112. Habitus of species excluded from Taumacera. 105 – Fleutiauxia chinensis (Maulik, 1933) (male, syntype); 106 – F. chinensis (female, syntype of F. mutifrons Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963); 107 – Hoplosaenidea abdominalis (Jacoby, 1884) (male, holotype of Platyxantha wallacei Jacoby, 1895); 108 – Hoplosaenidea dohertyi (Jacoby, 1894) (female, syntype); 109 – Hyphaenia balyi (Jacoby, 1895) (female, lectotype); 110 – Pseudoscelida nigrolimbata (Jacoby, 1899) (male, syntype); 111 – Metrioidea grandis (Allard, 1889) (male, syntype of Platyxantha robusta Jacoby, 1895); 112 – Theopella bodjoensis (Duvivier, 1885) (female, syntype of Platyxantha quadraticollis Jacoby, 1896).