Contacyphon maculicornis ( Solier, 1849 )

Ruta, Rafał, 2020, An overview of Scirtidae (Coleoptera) described by Antoine Joseph Jean Solier (1792 - 1851), Zootaxa 4767 (4), pp. 563-577 : 566

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[ Contacyphon maculicornis ( Solier, 1849) ]

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Pseudomicrocara patagonica ( Curtis, 1838) syn. nov.

Cyphon maculicorne Solier, 1849: 457 (locus typicus: inmediaciones de Coquimbo)

Helodes maculicornis Solier : Gemminger & von Harold 1869: 1618

Cyphon maculicorne: Blackwelder 1944: 266 (checklist; Chile); Moroni 1985: 174 ( Chile)

Cyphon maculicornis: Pic 1914: 32 (checklist; Chile)

Contacyphon maculicornis ( Solier, 1849) : Zwick et al. 2013: 343

Type material. Lectotype (present designation), female, “ Cyphon \ maculicorne \ Sol. Chili ” [handwritten with brown ink, probably by Solier]; “9 \ 45: [handwritten on a green, round label]. The specimen is relatively well pre- served (TL = 4.2 mm).

Remarks. According to the structure of the female genitalia ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 ) C. maculicornis is a junior synonym of Pseudomicrocara patagonica (Curtis) . For descriptions and illustrations of morphological characters, including male genitalia, see Libonatti & Ruta (2013). It is clear that Solier studied more than a single specimen of this species as ranges of measurements were noted in the original description ( Solier 1849), therefore a lectotype is designated in order to preserve the stability of nomenclature by selecting one specimen as the sole, name-bearing type of the taxon.

References

Blackwelder, R. E. (1944) Checklist of the coleopterous insects of Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 185 (2), 266 - 268. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 03629236.185.2

Curtis, J. (1838) Descriptions, & c. of the Insects collected by Captain P. P. King, R. N. F. R. S. & L. S. in the Survey of the Straits of Magellan. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 18, 181 - 205. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1095 - 8339.1838. tb 00170. x

Gemminger, M. & von Harold, E. (1869) Familia XLI. Dascillidae. In: Gemminger, M. & von Harold, E. (Eds.), Catalogus coleopterorum hucusque descriptorum synonymicus et systematicus. Tom. 6. Rhipidoceridae, Dascillidae, Malacodermidae, Cleridae, Lymexylonidae, Cupesidae, Ptinidae, Bostrychidae, Cioidae. Monachii, sumptu E. H. Gummi, Paris, pp. 1613 - 1625. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9089

Libonatti, M. L. & Ruta, R. (2013) Review of the Argentinean species of Pseudomicrocara Armstrong (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Zootaxa, 3718 (2), 137 - 157. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3718.2.3

Moroni, J. C. (1985) Addenda y corrigenda al elenco sistematico, sinonimico y distribucion de coleopteros acuaticos chilenos. Revista chilena de entomologia, 12, 169 - 176.

Pic, M. (1914) Dascillidae, Helodidae, Eucinetidae. In: Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (Eds.), Coleopterorum Catalogus, 10 (58), pp. 1 - 65.

Solier, A. J. J. (1849) Cyphonoideos. In: Gay, C. (Ed.), Historia fisica y politica de Chile segun documentos adquiridos en esta republica durante doce anos de residencia en ella y publicada bajo los auspicios del supremo gobierno. Zoologia. Tom. 4. Insectos. Orden III. Coleopteros. Chile, en el Museo de historia natural de Santiago, En casa del autor, Paris, pp. 454 - 461.

Zwick, P., Klausnitzer, B. & Ruta, R. (2013) Contacyphon Gozis, 1886 removed from synonymy (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) to accommodate species so far combined with the invalid name, Cyphon Paykull, 1799. Entomologische Blatter und Coleoptera, 109, 337 - 353.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Historical labels of Scirtidae specimens from the collection of A. Solier (A–I), and specimens collected by C. Gay (J–K). A) Contacyphon luteolineatus; B) Contacyphon maculicornis; C) Contacyphon parvus; D) Contacyphon testaceus; E) Contacyphon tristis; F) Elodes rousseli; G) Pseudomicrocara lunata; H) Pseudomicrocara obliquata; I) Pseudomicrocara tor- quata; J) an unidentified specimen; K) Contacyphon maculatus.

FIGURE 3. Lectotypes of species described by A. Solier, general view. A) Contacyphon luteolineatus (Solier, 1849); B) Con- tacyphon maculicornis (Solier, 1849); C) Contacyphon parvus (Solier, 1849); D) Contacyphon testaceus (Solier, 1849); E) Contacyphon tristis (Gemminger, 1869); F) Elodes rousseli Solier, 1849; G) Pseudomicrocara lunata (Solier, 1849); H) Pseudomicrocara obliquata (Solier, 1849); I) Pseudomicrocara torquata (Gemminger, 1869). Scale bars = 1.0 mm.

FIGURE 6. Contacyphon maculicornis (Solier, 1849), lectotype, female genitalia. A) genital tract, scale bar = 1.0 mm; B) prehensor, scale bar = 0.25 mm.