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
Downesia sasthi
Maulik, 1923
: 599
.
(
Fig. 10
)
There is one paratype in NFIC with following information written on the labels. Label 1: White label one stating collection locality '(INDIA: Uttarakhand), Haldwani Div. Kumaon; collected by HG Champion'. Label 2: White label stating host, hand written 'In sheaths of
Neyraudia
'. Label 3: White label '
Downesia sasthi
Mlk., Cotype 1923
(hand written), Det. S. Maulik'. Label 4: yellow bordered white circular label stating 'Cotype'.
Remarks:
The species was described from nine specimens.
Type
deposited in NHM, London.
Staines (2015)
also mentioned
type
deposited in 'BMNH'.