Stolas paranensis ( Spaeth, 1928 )

Simões, Marianna V. P., Husemann, Martin & Sekerka, Lukáš, 2021, A Catalog of the Tortoise Beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) Collection Deposited in the Zoological Museum Hamburg (ZMH), The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (1), pp. 191-210 : 203

Stolas paranensis ( Spaeth, 1928) ( Figs. 55–56 )

Pseudomesomphalia paranensis Spaeth 1928: 39 .

Type Locality. “[ Brazil:] Paraná: Lucena and Curitiba ” .

Type Specimens Examined. Syntype: male, pinned, “ Coll. E. Ross | Berlin. N 113 [b, t, cb] || COTYPUS [r, t, cb] || paranensis [hw] | Spaeth det. [w, t, cb] || Lucena, Paraná | Brasil, Gassner [w, t, cb] || ZMH 823532 [w, bf, sf]” ( ZMH) ( Figs. 57–58 ) .

Current Status. Valid species.

Remarks. Spaeth (1928) described this species based on numerous specimens collected by Gassner in Lucena (Paraná, Brazil) and several additional specimens from Curitiba (Paraná, Brazil). Because he did not select the type in the original description, all specimens are, therefore, syntypes. The ZMH

specimen is part of the type series, as there are many specimens with identical labels in the Spaeth collection in the MM. We examined the type series, and it is consistent; thus, there is no need for a lectotype designation .

Figures

Figs. 49–62. Type specimens of Cassidinae s. str. deposited at the Zoological Museum Hamburg. 49–52) Stolas indigacea ssp. arrogans (Spaeth), syntypes; 53–54) Stolas lugens (Spaeth), syntype; 55–56) Stolas paranensis (Spaeth), syntype; 57–58) Stolas selecta (Spaeth), syntype; 59–60) Aspidomorpha (s. str.) icterica ab. absiliens Spaeth, original specimen; 61–62) Aspidomorpha punctum munda var. submunda Spaeth, original specimen.