Eurysternus hypocrita Balthasar, 1939

Bezděk, Aleš, Hájek, Jiří & Ascr, Biology Centre, 2012, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1), pp. 297-334 : 316-317

Eurysternus hypocrita Balthasar, 1939

Eurysternus hypocrita Balthasar, 1939c: 114 . Three paralectotypes are deposited in NMPC (ex coll. V. Balthasar): PARALECTOTYPE (J): ‘PARA- / LECTO- / TYPE [p, rounded label, blue margin] // Surinam [p] // Typus! [hw, red label] // Eurysternum / hypocrita / n.sp. [hw] // Dr. V. Balthasar det. [p] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 26339

[hw, orange label] // WORLD / SCARAB. / DATABASE / WSD0002551 [p] // Eurysternus / hypocrita Balth. / PARALECTOTYPE [hw] / det. L. Jessop 1984 [p] // Eurysternus J / hypocrita / Balthasar, 1939 / vid. F. Génier, 2008 [p]’.

PARALECTOTYPE (♀): ‘PARA- / LECTO- / TYPE [p, rounded label, blue margin] // Guyana [hw] // Boucomont det. 1927 [p] / Eurysternus / calligrammus Dal. [hw] // Typus! [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 26337 [hw, orange label] // WORLD / SCARAB. / DATABASE / WSD0002552 [p] // hypocrita m. [hw, green label] // Eurysternus / hypocrita / n.sp.[hw] Dr.V.Balthasar det.[p] // Eurysternus / hypocrita Balth. / PARALECTOTYPE [hw] / det. L. Jessop 1984 [p] // Eurysternus ♀ / hypocrita / Balthasar, 1939 / vid. F. Génier, 2008 [p]’.

PARALECTOTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘ Guyana [hw] // Typus! [hw, red label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 26340 [hw, orange label] / Eurysternus / hypocrita / n.sp. [hw] / Dr.V. Balthasar det. [p] // Eurysternus hypocrita / Balthasar, 1939 / Paralectotypus / det.A. Bezděk & J. Hájek, 2011 [p, red label]’.

Current status. Valid species.

Remark. BALTHASAR (1939c) described this species from an unknown number of specimens. JESSOP (1985) designated a lectotype and two paralectotypes from the syntype series deposited in Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and in NMPC. Because there is no doubt about the authenticity of the specimen from ‘Guyana’ housed in NMPC, we have labelled it as an additional paralectotype. JESSOP (1985) synonymized E. hypocrita with E. velutinus Bates, 1887 , but later on, GÉNIER (2009) raised it back as a valid species.