Onthophagus pseudoarmatus Balthasar, 1944

Bezděk, Aleš & Hájek, Jiří, 2013, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1), pp. 387-442 : 418-419

Onthophagus pseudoarmatus Balthasar, 1944

Onthophagus pseudoarmatus Balthasar, 1944: 93 .

Ten syntypes are deposited in NMPC (ex coll. V. Balthasar):

SYNTYPE (J): ‘Shaowu - Fukien / (500m) J. Klapperich / 30. 10. 1937 [p, violet label] // Typus [p, red label, black frame] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 65 837 [hw, red label] // Comp. with / TYPE 96 [hw, red label] // Onth.pseudo- / armatus n. sp. [hw] / Dr. V. Balthasar [p] // O. ( Colobonthophagus ) / armatus BL. J [hw] / J. SCHEUERN det. 1996 [p] // pseudoarmatus / syn. nov. Balth. [hw] / J. SCHEUERN det. 1996 [p]’.

SYNTYPE (J): ‘Shaowu - Fukien / (500m) J. Klapperich / 30. 10. 1937 [p, violet label] // Typus [p, red label, black frame] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 65 842 [hw, red label] // Comp. with / TYPE 96 [hw, red label] // Onth.pseudo- / armatus n. sp. [hw] / Dr. V. Balthasar [p] // O. ( Colobonthophagus ) / armatus BL. J [hw] / J. SCHEUERN det. 1996 [p] // pseudoarmatus / syn. nov. Balth. [hw] / J. SCHEUERN det. 1996 [p]’.

SYNTYPE (J): ‘Shaowu - Fukien / (500m) J. Klapperich / 30. 10. 1937 [p, violet label] // Typus [p, red label, black frame] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 65 836 [hw, red label] // Comp. with / TYPE 96 [hw, red label] // Onth.pseudo- / armatus n. sp. [hw] / Dr. V. Balthasar [p] // O. ( Colobonthophagus ) / armatus BL. J [hw] / J. SCHEUERN det. 1996 [p] // pseudoarmatus / syn. nov. Balth. [hw] / J. SCHEUERN det. 1996 [p]’.

SYNTYPE (♀): ‘Shaowu - Fukien / (500m) J. Klapperich / 30. 10. 1937 [p, violet label] // Typus [p, red label, black frame] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 65 840 [hw, red label] // Onth. pseudo- / armatus n. sp. [hw] / Dr. V. Balthasar [p]’.

SYNTYPE (♀): ‘Shaowu - Fukien / (500m) J. Klapperich / 30. 10. 1937 [p, violet label] // Typus [p, red label, black frame] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 65 841 [hw, red label] // Onth. pseudo- / armatus n. sp. [hw] / Dr. V. Balthasar [p]’.

SYNTYPES (2 ♀♀): ‘Shaowu - Fukien / (500m) J. Klapperich / 30. 10. 1937 [p, violet label] // Typus [p, red label, black frame] // Onth. pseudo- / armatus n. sp. [hw] / Dr. V. Balthasar [p]’.

SYNTYPE (♀): ‘Shaowu - Fukien / (500m) J. Klapperich / 28. 10. 1937 [p, violet label] // Typus [p, red label, black frame] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv.[p] 65 839 [hw, red label] // Onth. pseudo- / armatus n. sp. [hw] / Dr.V. Balthasar [p] // O. ( Colobonthophagus ) / armatus BL. ♀ [hw] / J. SCHEUERN det. 1996 [p] // pseudoarmatus / syn. nov. Balth. [hw] / J. SCHEUERN det. 1996 [p]’.

SYNTYPE (♀): ‘Kwangtseh-Fukien / J. Klapperich [p] / 9. 10. [hw] 1937 [p, violet label] // Typus [p, red label, black frame] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv.[p] 65 838 [hw, red label] // Onth. pseudo- / armatus n. sp. [hw] / Dr.V. Balthasar [p] // O. ( Colobonthophagus ) / armatus BL. ♀ [hw] / J. SCHEUERN det. 1996 [p] // pseudoarmatus / syn. nov. Balth. [hw] / J. SCHEUERN det. 1996 [p]’.

SYNTYPE (♀): ‘Hoa-Binh / Tonkin [p] // Typus [p, red label, black frame] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 65 843 [hw, red label] // Onth. pseudo- / armatus n. sp. [hw] / Dr. V. Balthasar [p] // O. ( Colobonthophagus ) / armatus BL. ♀ [hw] / J. SCHEUERN det. 1996 [p] // pseudoarmatus / syn. nov. Balth. [hw] / J. SCHEUERN det. 1996 [p]’.

Current status. Junior subjective synonym of Onthophagus (Colobonthophagus) armatus Blanchard, 1853 , see KABAKOV & NAPOLOV (1999).