Pseudholophylla castaneipennis ( Macleay, 1888 )

Allsopp, Peter G., 2020, Clarification of the status of the types of Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) described before 1950, Zootaxa 4885 (4), pp. 451-486 : 476

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4885.4.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2E69687C-74B4-4087-9BF6-039F5FE14A9E

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4340912

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scientific name

Pseudholophylla castaneipennis ( Macleay, 1888 )
status

 

Pseudholophylla castaneipennis ( Macleay, 1888)

Rhopaea castaneipennis Macleay, 1888: 919 .

Pseudholophylla castaneipennis: Britton 1978: 34 .

Lectotype (designated by Britton 1978: 34) male: e Type (typeset, the first letter ‘e’ from a poorly cut label) | N.W. Austr (typeset) | HOLOTYPE (typeset on red label) | On permanent loan from MACLEAY MUSEUM University of Sydney (typeset) | Rhopaea castaenipennis Macl. Barrior [sic] Range N. W. Aust. (handwritten) | my lectotype label; in ANIC .

Paralectotype: 1 male: N.W. Austra (typeset) | Britton’s determination label | my paralectotype label | aedeagus on card; in ANIC .

Macleay (1888) did not define the type series, seeing an unknown number of specimens (vide Articles 73.1.2, 72.1.1) from the vicinity of King Sound, Western Australia. Blackburn (1911) said that there were two specimens in MMUS, one of which was labelled “type”. Britton and Stanbury (1982) in their catalogue of types moved from MMUS to ANIC listed only one specimen that they considered the holotype, and Britton (1978) referred only to a male holotype in ANIC from King Sound, Western Australia, presumably adding the red holotype label. Houston & Weir (1992) considered this specimen as the “ holotype (probable)”. Britton’s (1978) reference to a holotype was incorrect and should be interpreted as a designation of a lectotype (vide Article 74.5).

The precise type locality was not given by Macleay (1888) but the label on the lectotype suggests that it was Barrier Range, now Napier Range, where the collector Walter Froggatt stayed near Windjana Gorge [17.43°S, 124.98°E] during July–August and December 1887 and early 1888 ( Froggatt 1934).

Blackburn, T. (1911) Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. No. XLI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 35, 173 - 203.

Britton, E. B. (1978) A revision of the Australian chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Vol. 2. Tribe Melolonthini. Australian Journal of Zoology, Supplementary Series, 60, 1 - 150. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / AJZS 060

Britton, E. B. & Stanbury, P. J. (1982) Type specimens in the Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. VIII. Insects: Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 105, 241 - 293.

Froggatt, W. W. (1934) A naturalist in Kimberley in 1887. The Australian Naturalist, 9, 69 - 82.

Houston, W. W. K. & Weir, T. A. (1992) Melolonthinae. In: Houston, W. W. K. (Ed.), Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea. Vol. 9. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, pp. 174 - 358.

Macleay, W. (1888) The insects of King's Sound and its vicinity. Part II-The lamellicornes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, Series 2, 3, 897 - 924. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. part. 29181

ANIC

Australian National Insect Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Melolonthidae

SubFamily

Melolonthinae

Tribe

Melolonthini

Genus

Pseudholophylla