Polynoncus parafurcatus Pittino, 1987

(Figures 5d, 46, 50–51)

Polynoncus parafurcatus Pittino, 1987: 395 (original description); Scholtz 1990: 1441 (redescription); Gómez 2008: 517 (key to Argentinean species); Zidek 2013: 14 (checklist); Zidek 2017: 106 (checklist); Costa-Silva and Diéguez 2020: 272 (records from Argentina) Polynoncus parafurcatus occidentalis Pittino, 1987: 395 (synonymised by Scholtz 1990)

Type specimens examined. HOLOTYPE. (♂ MNHN – Figure 50) First label [round, white, aged, FranÇois Castelnau’s handwriting]: ‘7 / 47’. Second label [white, aged, typeset]: ‘MUSEUM PARIS / BRÉSIL / MINAS-GERAES / DE CASTELNAU 1847’. Third label [red, Riccardo Pittino’s handwriting]: ‘ Polynoncus / parafurcatus n. sp . / HOLOTYPUS ♂ / Det . R . Pittino 1897’. Fourth label [red with black frame,typeset]: ‘HOLOTYPE’.Fifth label [white, typeset]: ‘MNHN / EC9642’ (Figure 50e). Type locality: ‘ Minas-Geraes [Minas Gerais]’ (Brazil), collected by the French entomologist Francois Louis Nompar Caumont de Laporte de Castelnau (1810–1880) during one of his expeditions to South America between 1843 and 1847 (Papavero 1971) .

PARATYPES (1 ♂ MNHN; 1 ♂ and 1 ♀ RPMI [through detailed photographs]) . First label [round, white, aged, FranÇois Castelnau’s handwriting]: ‘7 / 47’. Second label [white, aged, typeset]: ‘MUSEUM PARIS / BRÉSIL / MINAS-GERAES / DE CASTELNAU 1847’. Third label [red, Riccardo Pittino’s handwriting]: ‘ Polynoncus / parafurcatus n. sp. / HOLOTYPUS ♂ / Det . R . Pittino 1897’. Fourth label [white with black border, handwritten]: ‘ ♀ ’. Fifth label [red, typeset]: ‘PARATYPE’. Sixth label [white, typeset]: ‘MNHN / EC9643’ (♂ MNHN) . First label [light brown, handwritten]: ‘ São Paulo / J . Metz’. Second label [white, typeset]: ‘EX COLL. / WINKLER, WIEN’. Third label [red, typeset]: ‘PARATYPUS’. Fourth label [red with black frame, Riccardo Pittino’s handwriting]: ‘ Polynoncus ♂ / parafurcatus / n. sp. / Det. Pittino 1987 ’ (♂ RPMI) . First label [white, aged, typeset]: ‘MUSEUM PARIS / BRÉSIL / MINAS-GERAES / DE CASTELNAU 1847 ’. Second label [round and green, without any visible information]. Third label [red, typeset]: ‘PARATYPUS’. Fourth label [red with black border, Riccardo Pittino’s handwriting]: ‘ Polynoncus ♂ / parafurcatus / n. sp. / Det. Pittino 1987 ’ (♀ RPMI) .