Lydus (Alosimus) caucasicus Mařan, 1940

Batelka, Jan & Hájek, Jiří, 2015, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (2), pp. 825-858 : 838-839

Lydus (Alosimus) caucasicus Mařan, 1940

Lydus (Alosimus) caucasicus Mařan, 1940: 82 .

Fifteen syntypes are deposited in NMPC (general collection and ex coll. Š. Jureček).

SYNTYPE (♀): ‘Kavkaz / coll. Dr. Veselý [p] // Allotypus [p, pink label] // Lydus / caucasicus m. [hw] / Dr. Mařan det. [p] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 447 [hw] [orange label]’.

SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Kavkaz / coll. Dr. Veselý [p] // OTYPUS [sic!, p, red label] // Lydus / caucasicus m. [hw] / Dr. Mařan det. [p] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 448 [hw] [orange label] // Paratypus [p, red typing] Micromerus / caucasicus Mař. / v. unicoloriceps m. [hw] / det. Dr. Kaszab, 195 [p, red typing] 6 [hw] // Micr. caucasicus / v. unicoloriceps m. [hw] / Dr. Z. Kaszab., 19 [p] 56 [hw]’.

SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Kavkaz / coll. Dr.Veselý [p] // COTYPUS [p, red label] // Lydus / caucasicus m. [hw] / Dr. Mařan det. [p] // Mus. Nat.Pragae / Inv. [p] 449 [hw] [orange label] // Paratypus [p, red typing] Micromerus / caucasicus Mař. / v. unicoloriceps m. [hw] / det. Dr. Kaszab, 195 [p, red typing] 6 [hw]’.

SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Kavkaz / coll. Dr.Veselý [p] // COTYPUS [p, red label] // Lydus / caucasicus m. [hw] / Dr. Mařan det. [p] // Mus. Nat.Pragae / Inv. [p] 450 [hw] [orange label] // Paratypus [p, red typing] Micromerus / caucasicus Mař. / v. unicoloriceps m. [hw] / det. Dr. Kaszab, 195 [p, red typing] 6 [hw]’.

SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Kavkaz / coll. Dr.Veselý [p] // COTYPUS [p, red label] // Lydus / caucasicus m. [hw] / Dr. Mařan det. [p] // Mus. Nat.Pragae / Inv. [p] 451 [hw] [orange label] // Paratypus [p, red typing] Micromerus / caucasicus Mař. / v. unicoloriceps m. [hw] / det. Dr. Kaszab, 195 [p, red typing] 6 [hw]’.

SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Kavkaz / coll. Dr.Veselý [p] // COTYPUS [p, red label] // Lydus / caucasicus m. [hw] / Dr. Mařan det. [p] // Mus. Nat.Pragae / Inv. [p] 452 [hw] [orange label] // Paratypus [p, red typing] Micromerus / caucasicus Mař. / v. unicoloriceps m. [hw] / det. Dr. Kaszab, 195 [p, red typing] 6 [hw]’.

SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Kavkaz / coll. Dr.Veselý [p] // COTYPUS [p, red label] // Lydus / caucasicus m. [hw] / Dr. Mařan det. [p] // Mus. Nat.Pragae / Inv. [p] 453 [hw] [orange label] // Paratypus [p, red typing] Micromerus / caucasicus Mař. / v. unicoloriceps m. [hw] / det. Dr. Kaszab, 195 [p, red typing] 6 [hw]’.

SYNTYPE (♀): ‘Kavkaz / coll. Dr.Veselý [p] // COTYPUS [p, red label] // Lydus / caucasicus m. [hw] / Dr. Mařan det. [p] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 454 [hw] [orange label] // Paratypus [p, red typing] Micromerus / caucasicus Mař. / v. unicoloriceps m. [hw] / det. Dr. Kaszab, 195 [p, red typing] 6 [hw]’.

SYNTYPE (♀): ‘Kavkaz / coll. Dr.Veselý [p] // COTYPUS [p, red label] // Lydus / caucasicus m. [hw] / Dr. Mařan det. [p] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 455 [hw] [orange label] // Paratypus [p, red typing] Micromerus / caucasicus Mař. / v. unicoloriceps m. [hw] / det. Dr. Kaszab, 195 [p, red typing] 6 [hw]’.

SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Kavkaz / coll.Dr.Veselý [p] // COTYPUS [p, pink label] // Lydus / caucasicus m.[hw] / Dr. Mařan det. [p] // Mus. Nat.Pragae / Inv. [p] 456 [hw] [orange label] // Paratypus [p, red typing] Micromerus / caucasicus Mař. / v. unicoloriceps m. [hw] / det. Dr. Kaszab, 195 [p, red typing] 6 [hw]’.

SYNTYPE (J): ‘Kavkaz / coll. Dr.Veselý [p] // COTYPUS [p, red label] // Lydus / caucasicus m. [hw] / Dr. Mařan det. [p] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / Inv. [p] 457 [hw] [orange label] // Paratypus [p, red typing] Micromerus / caucasicus Mař. / v. unicoloriceps m. [hw] / det. Dr. Kaszab, 195 [p, red typing] 6 [hw]’.

SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Ordubad, Ca. / J. Matcha [p] // Lydus / caucasicus m. [hw] / Dr. Mařan det. [p]’.

SYNTYPES (3 unsexed specimens): ‘Ordubad, Ca. / J. Matcha [p] // Paratypus [p, red typing] Micromerus / caucasicus Mař. / v. unicoloriceps m. [hw] / det. Dr. Kaszab, 195 [p, red typing] 6 [hw]’.

Current status. Muzimes caucasicus ( Mařan, 1940) , see BOLOGNA (2008).

Remark. Part of Mařan’s syntypes were subsequently used by KASZAB (1958a) for description of the variety Micromerus caucasicus var. unicoloriceps ; see also under that taxon.