Gymnopleurus geoffroyi mimus Balthasar, 1934

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 : 318

Gymnopleurus geoffroyi mimus Balthasar, 1934

Gymnopleurus geoffroyi ssp. mimus Balthasar, 1934a: 148 .

The lectotype and seven paralectotypes are deposited in NMPC (ex coll. V. Balthasar):

LECTOTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Elbrus Geb. / Persien Rttr. [p] // Typus [p, red label] // ssp. mimus / Typus! m. [hw] / Dr. Balthasar det. [p] // LECTOTYPE [p, red label] // Gymnopleurus / geoffroyi ssp. mimus / Balthasar 1934 / O. Montreuil des. 2011 [hw, red label] // Gymnopleurus / mimus Balthasar / 1934 [hw] / O. Montreuil det. [p] 2011 [hw]’.

PARALECTOTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Elbrus Geb. / Persien Rttr. [p] // Typus [p, red label] // ssp. mimus / Typus! m. [hw] / Dr. Balthasar det. [p] // PARA [hw] LECTOTYPE [p, red label] // Gymnopleurus / geoffroyi ssp. mimus / Balthasar 1934 / O. Montreuil 2011 des. [hw, red label] // Gymnopleurus / mimus Balthasar / 1934 [hw] / O. Montreuil det. [p] 2011 [hw]’.

PARALECTOTYPES (2 unsexed specimens): ‘Elbrus Geb. / Persien Rttr. [p] // Typus [p, red label] // ssp. mimus / Type m. [hw] / Dr. Balthasar det. [p] // Gymnopleurus geoffroyi / ssp. mimus Balthasar, 1934 / Paralectotypus / det. A. Bezděk & J. Hájek, 2011 [p, red label]’.

PARALECTOTYPES (4 unsexed specimens): ‘Elbrus Geb. / Persien Rttr. [p] // Gymnopleurus geoffroyi / ssp. mimus Balthasar, 1934 / Paralectotypus / det. A. Bezděk & J. Hájek, 2011 [p, red label]’.

Current status. Gymnopleurus (Gymnopleurus) mimus Balthasar, 1934 , see MONTREUIL (2011).

Remark. BALTHASAR (1934a) described this species from an unknown number of specimens. MONTREUIL (2011) designated a lectotype and one paralectotype from the syntype series deposited in NMPC. Because there is no doubt about the authenticity of the additional specimens housed in NMPC, we have labelled them as additional paralectotypes.