Pseudholophylla lepidoptera ( Blackburn, 1912 )

Allsopp, Peter G., 2020, Clarification of the status of the types of Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) described before 1950, Zootaxa 4885 (4), pp. 451-486 : 478

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.4.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4340932
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scientific name	Pseudholophylla lepidoptera ( Blackburn, 1912 )
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Pseudholophylla lepidoptera ( Blackburn, 1912) View in CoL

Paralepidiota lepidoptera Blackburn, 1912: 51 View in CoL .

Pseudholophylla lepidoptera: Britton 1978: 34 View in CoL .

Lectotype (designated by Britton 1978) male: Type H.T. (circular red ringed, typeset) | Blackburn coll. 1910-236 (typeset) | Cairns E. Allen (typeset) | 7893 N. Qu. [North Queensland] (handwritten in red) T (handwritten) | Paralepidiota lepidoptera, Blackb. View in CoL (handwritten) | my lectotype label; in NHML.

Paralectotype: 1 female: Cairns (typeset) | my paralectotype label; in SAM .

Blackburn (1912) described this species from one male (Cairns) and one female (N. Queensland), although both specimens are labelled ‘Cairns’. The ‘type’ was sent to NHML ( Lea 1912). Britton (1978) referred to a “ holotype ” male from Cairns in SAM and a “ paratype ” female from North Queensland in SAM. Houston & Weir (1992) interpreted Britton’s (1978) incorrect reference to a holotype as a lectotype designation and the reference to a paratype as a paralectotype designation. Given that Britton (1978) clearly nominated the male specimen as the holotype, I follow Houston & Weir (1992) in accepting a lectotype designation by Britton (vide Article 74.5). Britton (1978) was in error in placing the lectotype in SAM, although there is an obvious space for it in that collection.