Rhopaea magnicornis Blackburn, 1888
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Rhopaea magnicornis Blackburn, 1888
Rhopaea magnicornis Blackburn, 1888a: 210 .
Rhodaea magnicornis: Lea 1912 : xxxvi (in error).
Lectotype (designated by Britton 1978: 42) male ( Figs. 66–68 View FIGURES 63–74. 63–65 ): F2384 (handwritten) | Richmond R (handwritten) N.S.W. (typeset) | I.519 Rhopaea magnicornis Blkb Queensland. (handwritten) TYPE (handwritten in red, at right angle) | SAMA Database No. 25-034464 | my lectotype label; in SAM.
The main part of Blackburn’s (1888a) description is based on a single specimen that must be a male given the size and structure of the antennal club. However, he then described a single female in SAM that must be considered a syntype. Lea (1912) catalogued the ‘type’ as in SAM, and Britton (1978) referred to a “ holotype ” male from South Australia in SAM. This was followed by Houston & Weir (1992) and Miller & Allsopp (2000), albeit with the addition of the register number I.519 by Houston & Weir. Britton’s (1978) incorrect reference to a holotype is a valid lectotype designation (Article 74.5) as he designated the single male as the holotype.
Blackburn (1888a) and succeeding authors gave the type locality as “ South Australia ”—this is not consistent with the labels on the specimen that gives locations well within the accepted range of the species ( Britton 1978; Miller & Allsopp 2000).
Blackburn, T. (1888 a) Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 10, 177 - 287.
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
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.
Lea, A. M. (1912) The late Rev. Canon Thomas Blackburn, B. A., and his entomological work. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 36, v-xl.
Miller, L. J. & Allsopp, P. G. (2000) Identification of Australian canegrubs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthini). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 14, 377 - 409. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / IT 98019
FIGURES 63–74. 63–65, Holotype male of Rhopaea decipiens Lea, 1919. 63, dorsal; 64, lateral; 65, labels. 66–68, Lectotype male of Rhopaea magnicornis Blackburn, 1888. 66, dorsal; 67, lateral; 68, labels. 69–71, Holotype male of Rhopaea nigricollis Lea, 1919. 69, dorsal; 70, lateral; 71, labels. 72–74, Lectotype male of Zietzia geologa Blackburn, 1894. 72, dorsal; 73, lateral; 74, labels. Photographs courtesy of the South Australian Museum Board.
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Rhopaea magnicornis Blackburn, 1888
Allsopp, Peter G. 2020 |
Rhopaea magnicornis
Blackburn, T. 1888: 210 |
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