Annotated review of Cryptocephalinae (Clytrini), Synetinae and part of Galerucinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) described by Carl Peter Thunberg Author Bezděk, Jan text European Journal of Taxonomy 2019 2019-02-19 499 1 42 journal article 26979 10.5852/ejt.2019.499 d21bedeb-4bcc-4dd5-aefd-5426ba5abaf4 2651404 A50C1B67-2795-45D2-86EE-0A60637A4D1D Taumacera deusta Thunberg, 1814 Fig. 18 Taumacera deusta Thunberg, 1814: 48 (original description). Oedicerus apicipennis Baly, 1879: 110 (original description). Nacrea apicipennis Baly, 1886: 29 (original description). Type localities Taumacera deusta : “Goda-Hopps Udden” [= Cap. Bon. Spei; patria falsa]. Oedicerus apicipennis : “ India ”. Nacrea apicipennis : “ India ” [probably erroneous, see Comments]. Material examined Holotype INDONESIA • ♂; probably Java (see Comments); “Uppsala Univ. Zool. Mus. / Thunbergsaml. nr. 12377 / Taumacera deusta / Cap . TYP [r, p] // deusta . / Cap. [box label, w, h]”; UUZM . Additional material Oedicerus apicipennis : probably same type specimen as for Nacrea apicipennis (for details see Bezděk 2019 ). Fig. 18. Taumacera deusta Thunberg, 1814 , holotype, ♂, 7.5 mm, UUZM. A . Dorsal view. B . Lateral view. C . Frontal view. D . Label. E . Box label 1. F . Box label 2. INDONESIA • ♂, holotype of Nacrea apicipennis ; probably Java (see Comments); “Type [white round label with red collar, p] // India or. [w, h] // Nacrea / apicipennis / Baly / India [w, p] // Baly Coll. [w, p]”; BMNH . Comments Thunberg (1814) described Taumacera deusta from “Goda-Hopps Udden” (= Cap. Bon. Spei). Weise (1922) already regarded this type locality as erroneous and correctly synonymized Oedicerus apicipennis Baly, 1879 and Nacrea apicipennis Baly, 1886 (both described from “ India ”) with Taumacera deusta . Based on the paper by Weise (1922) , Maulik (1936) and Wilcox (1973) reported India in the distribution of Taumacera deusta . Reid (1999) mentioned that it probably does not occur in India . Based on its currently known distribution, it seems evident that Thunberg collected the holotype during his two visits to Java in the years 1775 and 1777 , and later mislabelled it. Taumacera deusta is known also from Bali ( Bezděk 2019 ). Taumacera deusta is the type species of the species-rich genus Taumacera Thunberg, 1814 (currently ca 70 species, predominantly distributed in the Oriental region ). An additional ca 20 African species currently classified in Taumacera are not congeneric and will be transferred elsewhere in the future. The genus concept was recently revised by Bezděk (2019) .