Natirrica meridionalis Costa, 1854: 19–20

Selnekovič, Dávid & Improta, Roberta, 2020, The type material of Mordellidae described by Achille Costa (Coleoptera Tenebrionoidea), Zootaxa 4803 (1), pp. 42-50 : 48-49

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4803.1.2

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5918915

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scientific name

Natirrica meridionalis Costa, 1854: 19–20
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Natirrica meridionalis Costa, 1854: 19–20

( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 1–13 )

Type locality. “ Calabrie ” and “ Sicilia ”, Italy .

Material examined. Lectotype by present designation ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 1–13 ), female (?), MZFN: original box, labelled: “ Natirrica meridionalis A. Cos. [original Costa’s label] | Mordella humeralis var. brunnea [Mulsant’s handwriting] | LECTOTYPUS Mordellistena meridionalis Costa, 1854 D. Selnekovič des. 2019 [red label] | Mordellistena (s. str.) humeralis (Linnaeus, 1758) D. Selnekovič det. 2019”; pinned; antennae and hind legs missing; covered in dirt.

Current status. New junior subjective synonym of Mordellistena humeralis (Linnaeus, 1758) .

Remarks. Natirrica meridionalis was considered as a variety of Mordellistena humeralis by Mulsant (1856), who had seen the type specimen. Later Emery (1876), who had probably also seen the type, listed N. meridionalis as a synonym of Mordellistena neuwaldeggiana ( Panzer, 1796) and this opinion was then followed by all subsequent authors. Re-examination of the lectotype revealed that N. meridionalis is conspecific with M. humeralis (photograph of the type examined, LSUK), and not with M. neuwaldeggiana ( Panzer 1796) .

MZFN

Museo Zoologico dell'Universita "Federico II"

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Mordellidae

Genus

Natirrica

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