Selasia isabellae Bourgeois, 1909

Packova, Gabriela & Kundrata, Robin, 2021, The genus Selasia Laporte, 1838 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) in Sri Lanka, Zootaxa 4926 (2), pp. 285-292 : 290-291

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4926.2.8
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4506208
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scientific name	Selasia isabellae Bourgeois, 1909
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Selasia (Euptilia) isabellae Bourgeois, 1909: 434 ; Olivier (1910: 6), Wittmer (1944: 208).

Type material. Holotype, male (coll. Bugnion) (according to the original description, Bourgeois 1909). The type specimen has not been found neither in MNHN, Paris , France (pers. observ. by the senior author) nor in the Bugnion collection (pars) in Musée cantonal de zoologie, Lausanne, Switzerland (A. Freitag, personal communication).

Type locality. Sri Lanka: Puwakpitiya (Central Province, ca. 50 km E of Colombo) .

Remark. Based on the habitus and shape of pronotum as figured in the original description ( Bourgeois 1909, plate 12, fig. 6), this species belongs to Lampyridae rather than to Drilini . Because the type specimen has not been located, and the description and figure does not enable us to assign the species to any lampyrid genus with a certainty, we suggest Selasia isabellae Bourgeois, 1909 is a species incertae sedis.