Taumacera jacobyi ( Weise, 1922 ) Bezděk, 2019

Bezděk, Jan, 2019, Taumacera revisited, with new synonyms, new combinations and a revised catalogue of the species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 59 (1), pp. 23-52 : 36

Taumacera jacobyi ( Weise, 1922) , comb. nov.

( Fig. 97 )

Dorydea costatipennis Jacoby, 1896b: 141 (original description, junior secondary homonym, nec Metellus costatipennis Jacoby, 1896 )

Platyxantha jacobyi Weise, 1922: 109 (replacement name for Dorydea costatipennis Jacoby 1896 nec Metellus costatipennis Jacoby, 1896 )

Type material examined. Dorydea costatipennis Jacoby, 1896 : SYNTYPES: 1 ♂, ‘Mentawei / Si Oban IV-VIII / Modigliani 94 [w, p] // Typus [red letters, w, p] // costatipennis / Jac. [w, h] // Dorydea / costatipennis / Jac. [b, h]’ ( MSNG); 1 ♀, ‘Mentawei / Si Oban IV-VIII / Modigliani 94 [w, p] // Museo Civ. / Genova [orange, p] // Jacoby Coll. / 1909-28a [w, p] costatipennis Jac [grey, h]’ ( BMNH); 1 ♀, ‘Mentawei / Si Oban IV-VIII / Modigliani 94 [w, p] // Museo Civ. / Genova [orange, p] // Jacoby Coll. / 1909-28a [w, p]’ ( BMNH).

Additional material examined. INDONESIA: SUMATRA: Mentawai, Sipora Is., Sereinu, v.–vi.1894, 1 ♂, E. Modigliani leg. ( BMNH).

Comments. WEISE (1922) classified both Dorydea costatipennis Jacoby, 1896 and Metellus costatipennis Jacoby, 1896 in the genus Platyxantha and due to homonymy he proposed a new substitute name of Platyxantha jacobyi for Dorydea costatipennis . REID (1999) omitted Platyxantha jacobyi in his list of Taumacera . In the current arrangement both Dorydea costatipennis and Metellus costatipennis are classified in Taumacera and thus Weiseʼs replacement name is valid.

Figures

Figs 94–104. Habitus of Taumacera. 94– T.variceps (Laboissière, 1933) (male); 95 – T.viridis (Hope, 1831) (male, syntype); 96 – T.coxalis (Jacoby, 1899) (female, syntype); 97 – T. jacobyi Weise, 1922 (male, syntype of Dorydea costatipennis Jacoby, 1896); 98 – T. javanensis Jacoby, 1895 (male, syntype); 99 – T. kinabaluensis (Mohamedsaid, 1995) (male); 100 – T. monstrosa (Jacoby, 1899) (male); 101 – T. multicostata (Jacoby, 1896) (female, syntype); 102 – T. submetallica (Jacoby, 1896) (female, syntype); 103 – T. sumatrana (Jacoby, 1899) (male); 104 – T. variabilis (Jacoby, 1891) (male, syntype).