Illustrated Catalogue and Type Designations of the New Zealand Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) Author Lord, Nathan P. Author Leschen, Richard A. B. text Zootaxa 2014 2014-05-29 3809 1 1 127 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3809.1.1 1175-5326 4918362 F5CD8411-8D8E-49C4-BE8D-07747B1E356E Pycnomerus tenuiculus Broun, 1914 ( Figs. 420–421 ) Pycnomerus tenuiculus Broun, 1914b: 180 . Hudson 1923: 370 . Hetschko 1930: 63 . Maddison 2010: 426 . Type locality : McClennan’s Bush, near Methven. Broun number : 3549. Remarks: Broun based this species on a single specimen collected on 23 April, 1912. Type material examined : Holotype ( BMNH ): card-mounted, “Type [round label with red border] // 3549 [in Broun’s hand] // New Zealand . [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922-482. // M c Clennan’s 23.4.1912 . [in Broun’s hand] // Pycnomerus tenuiculus . [in Broun’s hand]”. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank the following curators and collection managers for assistance: Max Barclay, Roger Booth ( BMNH ), Thierry Deuve, Azadeh Taghavian ( MNHN ), John Early ( AMNZ ), Adam Ślipiński (Australian National Insect Collection, Canberra). We thank Thomas Buckley (Landcare Research) and Federica Turco (Queensland Museum, Brisbane [ QM ]) for specimen assistance. We thank Otto Merkl (Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest), Bernd Jaeger, and Manfred Uhlig (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin) for checking the Reitter collections for syntypes of Pycnomerus acutangulum . We thank Jan Pedersen ( Zoological Museum , University of Copenhagen ) and Geoff Thompson ( QM ) for aid with literature. We thank Robert Hoare ( NZAC ) and Neal Evenhuis ( BPBM ) for discussions of nomenclature and Trevor Crosby ( NZAC ) for help with history of the Broun collection. We thank Roger Booth who was a tremendous help in BMNH collection information, nomenclatural issues and discussions, handwriting identification, etc. We thank Mike Ivie (Montana State University , Bozeman ), Kelly Miller ( University of New Mexico, Albuquerque [UNM]), Norman Woodley (United States National Museum , Washington) and the reviewers for suggestions and comments on earlier versions of this manuscript. We thank Eugenio Nearns ( UNM ) for specimen assistance and imaging. We thank Matt Gimmel ( Palacký University , Olomouc , Czech Republic ) for catalogue templates, discussion and assistance . This work was funded in part by Core funding for Crown Research Institutes from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Science and Innovation Group; USDA Forest Service grant 08-IC-11420004-226 (Predators of Adelgid Pests), UNM Department of Biology and Office of Graduate Studies, and the Society of Systematic Biologists Mini-ARTS grant. For additional support of this research we thank Terrence W. Walters and Amanda J. Redford ( U.S. Department of Agriculture / Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) for funding to Kelly B. Miller, Eugenio Nearns, and NPL .