Lepidiota grata Blackburn, 1890

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 : 465

publication ID

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4340903

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C264702F-4534-3510-2BE7-99FEFAF5FD2B

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scientific name

Lepidiota grata Blackburn, 1890
status

 

Lepidiota grata Blackburn, 1890

Lepidiota grata Blackburn, 1890: 86 .

Lectotype (here designated) male: on card on which specimen mounted, all handwritten: 7905 (in red), additional number (in red, crossed out), ♂ (crossed out), ♀, T (black), N. T. [Northern Territory] (in red), red and black lines | Type H. T. (circular red ringed, typeset) | Blackburn coll. 1910-236 (typeset) | Lepidiota grata, Blackb. (handwritten) | aedeagus dissected out and mounted on card | my lectotype label; in NHML.

Blackburn (1890) did not define the type series, seeing an unknown number of males (vide Articles 73.1.2, 72.1.1). Lea (1912) noted that the ‘type’ had been sent to NHML, and Britton (1978) referred to a “ holotype ” male from Queensland in NHML. Houston & Weir (1992) listed a “ holotype (probable)”, and Miller & Allsopp (2000) followed this interpretation. As Britton (1978), Houston & Weir (1992), and Miller & Allsopp (2000) provided no discussion and did not label any specimen in NHML, none of these mentions of a holotype constitutes a valid lectotype designation (vide Article 74.5). To stabilise nomenclature, I designate the male in NHML the lectotype.

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

NHML

Natural History Museum, Tripoli

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Melolonthidae

Genus

Lepidiota

Loc

Lepidiota grata Blackburn, 1890

Allsopp, Peter G. 2020
2020
Loc

Lepidiota grata

Blackburn, T. 1890: 86
1890
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