Podismopsis transsylvanica Ramme, 1951

MACHÁýKOVÁ, Lenka & FIKÁýEK, Martin, 2014, Catalogue of the type specimens deposited in the Department of Entomology, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic *, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54 (1), pp. 399-450 : 420

Podismopsis transsylvanica Ramme, 1951

Podismopsis transsylvanica Ramme, 1951: 74 .

Two paratypes are deposited in NMPC:

PARATYPE (♂, right posterior leg missing): ‘ Paratypus [p, red label] // Rumänien / Fogaras, Surul / 2150m 8.9.42 / Ramme [p] // Podismopsis / motasi Rme / ♂ [hw] Ramme det. [p] // PARATYPE / PODISMOPSIS / transsylvanica Ramme, 1951 / label attached by NMP [p, red label]’.

PARATYPE (♀): ‘ Paratypus [p, red label] // Rumänien / Fogaras, Surul / 2150m 8.9.42 / Ramme [p] // Podismopsis / motasi Rme / ♀ [hw] Ramme det. [p] // PARATYPE / PODISMOPSIS / transsylvanica Ramme, 1951 / label attached by NMP [p, red label]’.

Current status. Valid species.

Comments. The above specimens are not labeled as P. transsylvanica , but instead bear an unpublished name Podismopsis motasi . Still, the label data correspond precisely with those cited by RAMME (1951) for P. transsylvanica , and the locality label is moreover identical to that of the holotype deposited in Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (based on the photograph of the labels in EADES et al. 2014). We thus consider the above specimens paratypes of P. transsylvanica . It is possible that Ramme originally intended to describe the species as P. motasi but changed his mind after distributing part of the paratypes to other museums.