Revision of Palearctic and Oriental Necrophila Kirby et Spence, part 3: subgenus Calosilpha Portevin (Coleoptera: Silphidae: Silphinae)
Author
Růžička, Jan
Author
Qubaiová, Jarin
Author
Nishikawa, Masaaki
Author
Schneider, Jan
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Zootaxa
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Necrophila
(
Calosilpha
)
cyaneocephala
(Portevin, 1914)
(
Figs 5–6
,
14
,
42–45
,
57, 59, 60
)
Eusilpha cyaneocephala
Portevin, 1914a
: 6
(description,
type
locality “Kosempo, Hoozan”)
Calosilpha cyaneocephala
:
Portevin 1926
: 116
, 151 (new combination, key, catalog)
Silpha
(
Calosilpha
)
cyaneocephala
:
Hatch 1928
: 113
(new combination, catalog)
Calosilpha cyaneocephala
:
Schawaller 1982
: 251
(new combination, key, variability)
Necrophila
(
Calosilpha
)
cyaneocephala
:
Ji 2012
: 36
, 84 (new combination, redescription, key, catalog)
Type
material examined:
Lectotype
♂ (
SDEI
), labelled (
Fig. 14
): “Kosempo /
Formosa
/ Sauter [leg.] [p] // Portevin det. [hw] //
Syntypus
[p, red label] //
Eusilpha
/
cyaneocephala
♂ / mihi [hw, Portevin’s handwriting] // coll.
SDEI
/ (Müncheberg) / general coll. [p, light green modern label] //
LECTOTYPE
/
Eusilpha cyaneocephala
/ Portevin, 1914 / Jan Růžička des. 2009 [p, red label] //
Necrophila (Calosilpha)
/
cyaneocephala
/ (Portevin, 1914) [p] ♂ [hw] / Jan Růžička det. 201 [p] 2 [hw]”;
paralectotypes
(8 ♂♂, 14 ♀♀): 7 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀ (
SDEI
), labelled: “Kosempo /
Formosa
/ H. Sauter [leg.] [p] VII. [19]11 [hw] // Portevin det. [hw] //
Syntypus
[p, red label] //
PARALECTOTYPE
/
Eusilpha cyaneocephala
/ Portevin, 1914 / Jan Růžička des. 2009 [p, red label] //
Necrophila (Calosilpha)
/
cyaneocephala
/ (Portevin, 1914) [p] ♂ [or ♀] [hw] / Jan Růžička det. 201 [p] 2 [hw]”;
paralectotype
1 ♀ (
SDEI
), labelled: “Kosempo /
Formosa
/ H. Sauter [leg.] [p] [without date] // Portevin det. [hw] //
Syntypus
[p, red label] //
PARALECTOTYPE
/
Eusilpha cyaneocephala
/ Portevin, 1914 / Jan Růžička des. 2009 [p, red label] / /
Necrophila (Calosilpha)
/
cyaneocephala
/ (Portevin, 1914) [p] ♂ [or ♀] [hw] / Jan Růžička det. 201 [p] 2 [hw]”;
1 ♂
(
SDEI
), labelled: “Kosempo [p] / 8 [hw]
Formosa
[p] 0 8 [hw] / H. Sauter [leg.], * [hw] 19 [p] 11 [hw] //
Syntypus
[p, red label] //
PARALECTOTYPE
/
Eusilpha cyaneocephala
/ Portevin, 1914 / Jan Růžička des. 2009 [p, red label] //
Necrophila (Calosilpha)
/
cyaneocephala
/ (Portevin, 1914) [p] ♂ [hw] / Jan Růžička det. 201 [p] 2 [hw]”; 2 ♀♀ (
SDEI
), labelled: “
Formosa
/ Hoozan 08-10 / Sauter [leg.] [p] //
7.iv.
[p] // Portevin det. [hw] //
Syntypus
[p, red label] //
PARALECTOTYPE
/
Eusilpha cyaneocephala
/ Portevin, 1914 / Jan Růžička des. 2009 [p, red label] //
Necrophila (Calosilpha)
/
cyaneocephala
/ (Portevin, 1914) [p] ♀ [hw] / Jan Růžička det. 201 [p] 2 [hw]”; 1 ♀ (
SDEI
), labelled: “
Formosa
/ Hoozan 08-10 / Sauter [leg.] [p] //
7.iv.
[p] // Portevin det. [hw] //
Eusilpha
/
cyaneocephala
/ m. [hw, Portevin’s handwriting] //
PARALECTOTYPE
/
Eusilpha cyaneocephala
/ Portevin, 1914 / Jan Růžička des. 2009 [p, red label] //
Necrophila (Calosilpha)
/
cyaneocephala
/ (Portevin, 1914) [p] ♀ [hw] / Jan Růžička det. 201 [p] 2 [hw]”; 1 ♀ (coll. M. Pic,
MNHN
), labelled: “
Formosa
/ Hoozan 08-10 / Sauter [leg.] [p] //
7. IV.
[p] // MUSÉUM
PARIS
[p] / collection / Pic. Portevin [hw] //
C. cyaneocephala
/ Port. [hw, Portevin’s handwriting] //
TYPE
[p, violet paper] // Muséum Paris / Coll. M. Pic [p] //
PARALECTOTYPE
/
Eusilpha cyaneocephala
/ Portevin, 1914 / Jan Růžička des. 2009 [p, red label] //
Necrophila (Calosilpha)
/
cyaneocephala
/ (Portevin, 1914) [p] ♀ [hw] / Jan Růžička det. 201 [p] 2 [hw]”; 1 ♀ (
NHRS
), labelled: “Kosempo /
Formosa
/ H. Sauter [leg.] [p] VII. [19]11 [hw] // PARATYP [p, red label] //
Eusilpha
cy- / aneocephala / Port. [hw, Portevin’s handwriting] // Portevin det. [hw] //
PARALECTOTYPE
/
Eusilpha cyaneocephala
/ Portevin, 1914 / Jan Růžička des. 2009 [p, red label] //
Necrophila (Calosilpha)
/
cyaneocephala
/ (Portevin, 1914) [p] ♀ [hw] / Jan Růžička det. 200 [p] 9 [hw]”; 1 ♀ (
BMNH
), labelled: “Co- /
type
[hw, round label with yellow margin] //
PARATYPUS
[p, red label] //
Formosa
. / H. Sauter. / Brit. Mus. /
1923-61
. [p] // Kosempo /
Formosa
/ H. Sauter [leg.] [p] VII. [19]11 [hw] //
Eusilpha
cyaneo- / cephala Port. [hw] //
PARALECTOTYPE
/
Eusilpha cyaneocephala
/ Portevin, 1914 / Jan Růžička des. 2009 [p, red label] //
Necrophila (Calosilpha)
/
cyaneocephala
/ (Portevin, 1914) [p] ♀ [hw] / Jan Růžička det. 200 [p] 9 [hw]”; 1 ♀ (
NMNH
), labelled: “COTYPUS [p, red label] // CarlFBaker / Collection [p] //
Eusilpha
cya- / neocephala / Port. [hw] //
Eusilpha
/ cyanocephala / Port. [hw, red label with black frame] //
PARALECTOTYPE
/
Eusilpha cyaneocephala
/ Portevin, 1914 / Jan Růžička des. 2009 [p, red label] //
Necrophila (Calosilpha)
/
cyaneocephala
/ (Portevin, 1914) [p] ♀ [hw] / Jan Růžička det. 201 [p] 2 [hw]”; 1 ♀ (
NMNH
), labelled: “Kosempo /
Formosa
/ H. Sauter [leg.] [p] VII. [19]11 [hw] // COTYPUS [p, red label] // CarlFBaker / Collection [p] //
PARALECTOTYPE
/
Eusilpha cyaneocephala
/ Portevin, 1914 / Jan Růžička des. 2009 [p, red label] //
Necrophila (Calosilpha)
/
cyaneocephala
/ (Portevin, 1914) [p] ♀ [hw] / Jan Růžička det. 201 [p] 2 [hw]”.
Additional material examined.
See Appendix 1.
Diagnostic description.
Body length
11.9–23.1 mm
(
21.9 mm
in the
lectotype
), maximum body width
8.5– 11.9 mm
(
11.2 mm
in the
lectotype
). Pronotum orange in dorsal view (
Figs. 5–6
). Hypomeron medially orange in ventral view, dark metallic blue only along its posterior margin. Elytra brown to dark brown, without metallic luster; outline subrectangular; costae finer, less elevated (
Figs. 5–6
).
Male
. Elytra laterally parallel and more narrow than in
N. brunnicollis
(
Fig. 5
). Metatibia only slightly bent. Male genital segment with longer spiculum gastrale in ventral view (
Fig. 43
). Aedeagus with median lobe distinctly shorter than slender, elongate parameres in ventral view (
Figs. 42
).
Female
. Apex of elytron more elongated than in
N. brunnicollis
(
Figs. 6
,
66
). Genital segment with tergum 10 large, pentagonal in shape, narrowly rounded posteriorly in dorsal view (
Fig. 44
).
Notes on
type
specimens.
Lectotype
of
Eusilpha cyaneocephala
is designated here as a male from
SDEI
, selected from series of
syntype
specimens from
SDEI
,
MNHN
and
NMNH
.
Distribution
(
Fig. 63
). Endemic Taiwanese species (Portevin 1914,
Nishikawa 2014
).