Nesotrinchus caeruleipennis ( Fairmaire, 1877 ) Bílý & Kubáň & Volkovitsh, 2009

Bílý, Svatopluk, Kubáň, Vítězslav & Volkovitsh, Mark G., 2009, A study on the tribe Poecilonotini, with a revision of the subtribe Nesotrinchina subtrib. nov. and the description of a new genus and species from Papua New Guinea (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Chrysochroinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (2), pp. 729-767 : 756-757

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scientific name

Nesotrinchus caeruleipennis ( Fairmaire, 1877 )
status

comb. nov.

Nesotrinchus caeruleipennis ( Fairmaire, 1877) View in CoL , comb. nov.

( Figs. 82–89 View Figs , 110, 116–117 View Figs )

Dicercomorpha caeruleipennis Fairmaire, 1877: 153 View in CoL . Type locality: Pacific Islands, Tonga: Vava’u Isl. (‘Vavao’).

Dicercomorpha caeruleipennis Fairmaire View in CoL : FAIRMAIRE (1879): 97 (as coeruleipennis View in CoL [sic!]; characters; distribution: Tonga: Vava’u Island (‘Vavao’); in Museum Godeffroy); FAIRMAIRE (1881): 265 (as coeruleipennis View in CoL [sic!]; reference to THOMSON (1878) – mistake; with comment: probably identical with ‘ Buprestis wallisii Montr. View in CoL ’; distribution: ‘à Samoa et aux îles Viti’); KERREMANS (1885): 135 (as coeruleipennis View in CoL [sic!]; catalogue; as valid species; distribution: Vavao, Tonga; with a remark ‘= Wallisi Montr.? (sub nom. Buprestis View in CoL ?), Ann. Soc.Agr. Lyon, VII’); KERREMANS (1892): 85 (as coeruleipennis View in CoL [sic!]; catalogue; as synonym of wallisii View in CoL ; reference to THOMSON (1878) – mistake; distribution: New Caledonia – mistake); KERREMANS (1900a): 294 (as coeruleipennis View in CoL [sic!]; comment – as different from wallisii View in CoL ).

Haplotrinchus caeruleipennis (Fairmaire) : KERREMANS (1903): 127 (as coeruleipennis View in CoL [sic!]; new combination; list of species; as valid species; distribution: Fiji – mistake); OBENBERGER (1930): 358 (as coeruleipennis View in CoL [sic!]; catalogue; as possible synonym of caeruleipennis Thomson ; distribution: Fiji – mistake, Tonga: Vava’u Island).

Nesotrinchus caeruleipennis (Fairmaire) View in CoL : OBENBERGER (1936):129 (as coeruleipennis View in CoL [sic!]; comment; new combination; as possible form of caeruleipennis Thomson View in CoL ); THÉRY (1943): 644 (comment), 646 (list of species; as valid name; with synonyms caeruleipennis Thomson View in CoL and simondsi View in CoL ; distribution: Fiji – mistake).

Nesotrinchus orientalis Bellamy, 1987: 101 View in CoL , syn. nov. Type locality: Pacific Islands, Tonga: Eua Island.

Nesotrinchus orientalis: BELLAMY (2003) View in CoL : 120, Fig. 186 (foto; list of genera).

Melobasina caeruleipennis (Fairmaire) : BELLAMY (2008): 625 (catalogue; partim; as coeruleipennis View in CoL [sic!]; distribution: Oceania, Tonga, erroneously Fiji: Ovalau Island, Vanua Levu Island,Viti Levu Island).

Melobasina orientalis: BELLAMY (2008) : 625 (catalogue; distribution incomplete: Oceania, Tonga).

Misidentification. Nesotrinchus caeruleipennis (Fairmaire) sensu BELLAMY (1987, 1990 View in CoL , 2005, 2008) – in fact N. caeruleipennis (Thomson) View in CoL , is now N. thomsoni Bílý & Kubáň View in CoL , nom. nov. (see below).

Type material examined. Nesotrinchus caeruleipennis (Fairmaire) : LECTOTYPE (designated here): ♀ ( BMNH), TONGA: VAVA’ U ISLAND: ‘Type [p] [round, red-framed label] / Dicercomorpha caeruleipennis Fairm. Vavao [h, Fairmaire’s handwriting] / Fidji Fairm.[h, Kerremans handwriting] / coeruleipennis Fairmaire Type [h, Kerremans’ handwriting] / D. coeruleipennis Fairmaire I. Fidji [h]’. Since the number of syntypes is unknown, we designate here the female specimen from BMHN as the lectotype to avoid any confusion in the future.

Nesotrinchus orientalis : PARATYPES: 7 JJ 5 ♀♀ ( BMNH), TONGA: VAVA’ U ISLAND: ‘ Tonga: Vavao. iii.1925. G.H.E.Hopkins. [p] / Pres. by Imp. Inst. Ent. Brit. Mus. 1930–555. [p] / Paratype [p] Nesotrinchus orientalis J [or ♀] [h] C. L. Bellamy [p] [yellow label]’; 3 JJ 2 ♀♀ ( BMNH), ‘Neiafu Vavau Tonga 7. [or 8., or 11.] iii. [19]25 [h] S. Pacific Buxton & Hopkins [p] / Brit. Mus. 1928–25. [p] / Paratype [p] Nesotrinchus orientalis J [or ♀] [h] C. L. Bellamy [p] [yellow label] / [one J with: ‘ N. coeruleipennis Fairm. (var.) [h] det.K.G.Blair. [p]’]’; 1 J ( NMPC, ex coll. S. Bílý), ‘ Tonga, Vavau: Neiafu, 0– 100m. March 1974 N.L.H. Krauss [p] / Paratype [p] Nesotrinchus orientalis J [h] C. L. Bellamy [p] [yellow label]’.

Additional material examined. TONGA: VAVA’ U ISLAND: ‘ Tonga: Vavao. iii.1925. G.H.E.Hopkins. [p] / N. coeruleipennis Fairm. [h] det.K.G.Blair.[p] / Pres.by Imp. Inst.Ent.Brit.Mus. 1930–555.[p] / Nosotrinchus coeruleipennis Frm. = simondsi Obb. (Haplotrinchus) [handwritten] A. Théry det. [p]’ (1 J, NHMB, ex coll. G. Frey).

Other published records. Further type specimens of N. orientalis ( BELLAMY 1987) : TONGA: EUA ISLAND: Eua Isl., 21.viii.1975, J. C. Watt leg. (1 J (holotype), 2 ♀♀, NZAC). TONGATABU ISLAND: Haamea, ii.1956, N. H. L. Krauss leg. (1 ♀). VAVA’ U ISLAND: various data (24 spec.). NEW ZEALAND: NIUE ISLAND: various data (4 JJ 4 ♀♀). Deposition of paratypes other than those from the Eua Island not specified.

Biology and collecting circumstances. Four paratypes of Nesotrinchus orientalis from Vava’u Island are labelled: ‘Talau Forest, on tree trunks’ and 13 paratypes from Vava’u Island (Neiafu) were collected at 0–100 m a.s.l. ( BELLAMY 1987).

Remarks. We have studied the syntype of N. caeruleipennis ( Fairmaire, 1877) and 21 paratypes of N. orientalis and failed to find any differences. We regard them as conspecific, N. orientalis being a junior subjective synonym of N. caeruleipennis ( Fairmaire, 1877) .

Distribution. Pacific Islands: Tonga (Eua Island, Tongatabu Island, Vava’u Island), Niue Island.

NMPC

National Museum Prague

NHMB

Natural History Museum Bucharest

NZAC

New Zealand Arthropod Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Buprestidae

Genus

Nesotrinchus

Loc

Nesotrinchus caeruleipennis ( Fairmaire, 1877 )

Bílý, Svatopluk, Kubáň, Vítězslav & Volkovitsh, Mark G. 2009
2009
Loc

Melobasina caeruleipennis (Fairmaire)

BELLAMY C. L. 2008: 625
2008
Loc

Melobasina orientalis:

BELLAMY C. L. 2008: 625
2008
Loc

Nesotrinchus orientalis: BELLAMY (2003)

BELLAMY C. L. 2003: 120
2003
Loc

Nesotrinchus orientalis

BELLAMY C. L. 1987: 101
1987
Loc

Dicercomorpha caeruleipennis

FAIRMAIRE L. 1877: 153
1877
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