Melobasina suturalis ( Deyrolle, 1864 ) Bílý & Kubáň & Volkovitsh, 2009

Bílý, Svatopluk, Kubáň, Vítězslav & Volkovitsh, Mark G., 2009, A study on the tribe Poecilonotini, with a revision of the subtribe Nesotrinchina subtrib. nov. and the description of a new genus and species from Papua New Guinea (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Chrysochroinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (2), pp. 729-767 : 753-754

Melobasina suturalis ( Deyrolle, 1864) , comb. nov.

( Figs. 66–70 )

Poecilonota suturalis Deyrolle, 1864: 58 (key) 64 (characters). Type locality: Indonesia, Maluku Islands, Halmahera island (‘Gilolo’).

Poecilonota suturalis: GEMMINGER & HAROLD (1869) : 1376 (catalogue; distribution: ‘Gilolo’); SAUNDERS (1871): 38 (catalogue; distribution: ‘Gilolo’); KERREMANS (1892): 92 (catalogue; distribution: ‘Gilolo’).

Lampra suturalis: KERREMANS (1903) : 135 (list of species; new combination; distribution: ‘Gilolo’); OBENBERGER (1930): 356 (catalogue; distribution: ‘Gilolo’).

Lamprodila (Palmar) suturalis: BELLAMY (2008) : 622 (catalogue; new combination; distribution: Indonesia: Halmahera, Kalimantan).

Type material examined. LECTOTYPE (designated here): sex not examined ( MNHN, coll. Oberthür), INDONESIA: MALUKU ISLANDS: Halmahera Island : ‘suturalis HDeyr. I. Gilolo [h]’. Since the number of syntypes is unknown, we designate here the specimen mentioned above as the lectotype to avoid any confusion in the future.

Additional material examined. INDONESIA: MALUKU ISLANDS: Halmahera Island (1 ♀, NMPC) ; Halmahera Island NW, 7 km SE of Jailolo, 200 m, 1°1′18″N 127°31′39″E, 26.–27.i.2006, UWP + clearing, A. Skale leg. (1 ♀, MNCA) .

Remarks. BELLAMY (2008) formally transferred this species to the genus Lamprodila (subgenus Palmar ) and mentioned it also from Kalimantan. We failed to trace any specimen or data from Kalimantan and suppose that its presence there is highly improbable. We find M. suturalis rather different from other species of the genus.

Distribution. Indonesia ( Maluku Islands: Halmahera Island).? Kalimantan.

Figures

Figs. 59–70. 59–64 – Melobasina apicalis Kerremans, 1900, lectotype, female, 13.5 mm, Tagula Island (except 60 – female, 11.5 mm, Guadalcanal Island).65 – M.ignita (Théry, 1937) (synonym of M.apicalis), holotype, female, 12.5 mm, Bougainville Island. 66–70 – M. suturalis (Deyrolle, 1864), female (NMPC), 13.0 mm, Halmahera Island. 59–60, 65–66 – habitus, dorsal view; 61, 67 – habitus, lateral view; 62, 68 – head, frontal view; 63, 69 – prosternal process; 64, 70 – anal ventrite.