Type specimens of Chrysomelidae and Megalopodidae (Coleoptera) in the National Forest Insect Collection (NFIC), Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, India
Author
Faisal, Mohammad
Author
Singh, Sudhir
text
Zootaxa
2018
4420
4
509
529
journal article
29157
10.11646/zootaxa.4420.4.4
dcde82e0-f5ee-44e6-9a6a-9e00349457d6
1175-5326
1455409
BEB0124D-F636-42EC-AB8B-24C178CCA6AE
Estigmena bicolor
Bhasin, 1950
: 133
.
(
Fig. 8
)
In NFIC there is one holotype and a paratype. Holotype with five labels. Label 1: White label with printed collection locality (INDIA: Assam), 'Cachar, Halflong;
15.v.1925
; CFC Beeson'. Label 2: white blank label with glue mark, perhaps specimen was earlier glued to the card. Label 3: White label stating '
Estigmena
?duhartyiutm
(not clearly legible), G. E. Bryant det'. Label 4: white label stating 'Holotype,
Estigmena bicolor
Bhasin' (hand written). Label 5: Red label printed 'Type'.
Paratype
:
1 female
;
INDIA
:
Assam
,
Lakhimpur Distt
,
Jeypore Res. Forest
;
12. v. 1938
;
NC Chatterjee.
Remarks:
Holotype
, both the antennae broken and each with five basal segments, broken parts missing; right hind leg missing, left hind leg with one tarsomere rest missing. Species was described on the basis of two specimens, both of which are present in the NFIC.
Staines (2015)
mentioned ' depository unknown'.