Gnorimus decempunctatus Helfer, 1833

Bezděk, Aleš, Hájek, Jiří & Ascr, Biology Centre, 2010, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (2), pp. 629-655 : 649

Gnorimus decempunctatus Helfer, 1833

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Gnorimus Decempunctatus Helfer, 1833: 495 , Figs. B1–2 on plate XVII.

One syntype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. J. V. Helfer):

SYNTYPE (♀): ‘TYPUS [p, red label] // Coll. Helfer [p] / Sicilia / Helfer Type [hw] // Typus Helferianus! / vide: ASEF II 495, Gnorimus Type / decempunctatus Helfer [hw] / det. Dr. Ondřej. [p] // 10 punctatus / Mihi / Monte Madonia / in truncus / Q. ilex / 1818, H. [hw] // Mus. Pragense [p] // HOLOTYPUS [p, red label]’.

Type condition. The syntype is partly damaged and the right elytron is missing.

Current status. Valid species.

Remark. Although the specimen was subsequently labelled as the holotype, HELFER (1833) described this species from a number of specimens of both sexes without having designated the holotype, and no subsequent lectotype designation has been published. We thus regard this type specimen as a syntype.

Figures

Figs. 1–2. 1 – Gnorimus decempunctatus Helfer, 1833 (syntype and its labels); 2 – Goliathus atlas Nickerl, 1887 (holotype and its labels).