Dermolepida lixi ( Nonfried, 1894 ), 1941

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 : 460

publication ID

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.4340905

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C264702F-4533-3517-2BE7-9A2BFA8BF847

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scientific name

Dermolepida lixi ( Nonfried, 1894 )
status

 

Dermolepida lixi ( Nonfried, 1894)

Lepidioderma lixi Nonfried, 1894: 10 .

Dermolepida lixi: Arrow 1941: 448 .

Lepidioderma glaber Brenske, 1895: 42 .

Dermolepida glaber: Arrow 1941: 448 ; Britton 1957: 57 (synonymy).

Lectotype of Lepidioderma lixi (here designated) ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 8–16 ): Coll. Nonfried. Nova Guinea (black bordered, typeset) | Lepidioderma Lixi Type Nfr (handwritten) | my lectotype label; in ZMB.

Paralectotype ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 8–16 ): Coll. Nonfried. Nova Guinea (black bordered, typeset) | my paralectotype label; in ZMB .

Nonfried (1894) did not define the type series, seeing an unknown number of specimens of unstated gender (vide Articles 73.1.2, 72.1.1). Britton (1957) apparently did not see any types and did not define their status. Britton (1978) referred to a holotype from Cornwallis Island [Dauan, Torres Strait] but did not indicate a collection; this cannot be a paralectotype as it does not come from Nonfried’s type locality of Neu-Guinea. Houston & Weir (1992) followed this status and said that the specimen was in NHML, but in December 2019 I could find no such specimen in NHML. As Britton (1978) and Houston & Weir (1992) provided no discussion, referred to a specimen not from the type locality and did not label any specimen in NHML or ZMB, neither mention of a holotype constitutes a valid lectotype designation (vide Article 74.5). To stabilise nomenclature, I designate the specimen in ZMB with Nonfried’s label the lectotype. A second species in ZMB with the same collection label I designate as a paralectotype.

Lectotype of Lepidioderma glaber (here designated) ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 8–16 ): glabra [sic] Brsk. (handwritten by Moser ) | ♂ 5 gl. Fühlerkeule [antennal club with five antennomeres] ♀ 4 gl. [antennal club with four antennomeres] Klauen [claws] [remainder illegible] (handwritten) | Cornwallis Islands. [Dauan Island, 9.41°S, 142.54°E] D Heyne (handwritten) | Coll Brenske (black bordered, typeset) | my lectotype label; in ZMB. GoogleMaps

Paralectotype ( Fig. 13 View FIGURES 8–16 ): Cornwallis Islands . [Dauan Island, 9.41°S, 142.54°E] D Heyne (handwritten) | Coll Brenske (black bordered, typeset) | my paralectotype label; in ZMB GoogleMaps .

Brenske (1895) did not define the type series, seeing an unknown number of specimens of unstated gender (vide Articles 73.1.2, 72.1.1). Britton (1978) referred to a “ holotype ” from an unknown location, and Houston & Weir (1992) followed this. As Britton (1978) and Houston & Weir (1992) provided no discussion, referred to a specimen not from the type locality and did not label any specimen in ZMB, neither mention of a holotype constitutes a valid lectotype designation (vide Article 74.5). To stabilise nomenclature, I designate the specimen in ZMB with the “ glaber ” label the lectotype. A second species in ZMB with the same collection label I designate as a paralectotype. Neither have any handwritten identification/type labels by Brenske but they are undoubtably syntypes.

ZMB

Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Zoological Collections)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Melolonthidae

Genus

Dermolepida

Loc

Dermolepida lixi ( Nonfried, 1894 )

Allsopp, Peter G. 2020
2020
Loc

Dermolepida lixi: Arrow 1941: 448

Arrow, G. J. 1941: 448
1941
Loc

Dermolepida glaber:

Britton, E. B. 1957: 57
Arrow, G. J. 1941: 448
1941
Loc

Lepidioderma glaber

Brenske, E. 1895: 42
1895
Loc

Lepidioderma lixi

Nonfried, A. F. 1894: 10
1894
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