Pseudholophylla castaneipennis ( Macleay, 1888 )

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 : 476

Pseudholophylla castaneipennis ( Macleay, 1888)

Rhopaea castaneipennis Macleay, 1888: 919 .

Pseudholophylla castaneipennis: Britton 1978: 34 .

Lectotype (designated by Britton 1978: 34) male: e Type (typeset, the first letter ‘e’ from a poorly cut label) | N.W. Austr (typeset) | HOLOTYPE (typeset on red label) | On permanent loan from MACLEAY MUSEUM University of Sydney (typeset) | Rhopaea castaenipennis Macl. Barrior [sic] Range N. W. Aust. (handwritten) | my lectotype label; in ANIC .

Paralectotype: 1 male: N.W. Austra (typeset) | Britton’s determination label | my paralectotype label | aedeagus on card; in ANIC .

Macleay (1888) did not define the type series, seeing an unknown number of specimens (vide Articles 73.1.2, 72.1.1) from the vicinity of King Sound, Western Australia. Blackburn (1911) said that there were two specimens in MMUS, one of which was labelled “type”. Britton and Stanbury (1982) in their catalogue of types moved from MMUS to ANIC listed only one specimen that they considered the holotype, and Britton (1978) referred only to a male holotype in ANIC from King Sound, Western Australia, presumably adding the red holotype label. Houston & Weir (1992) considered this specimen as the “ holotype (probable)”. Britton’s (1978) reference to a holotype was incorrect and should be interpreted as a designation of a lectotype (vide Article 74.5).

The precise type locality was not given by Macleay (1888) but the label on the lectotype suggests that it was Barrier Range, now Napier Range, where the collector Walter Froggatt stayed near Windjana Gorge [17.43°S, 124.98°E] during July–August and December 1887 and early 1888 ( Froggatt 1934).