Taxonomic and nomenclatural changes in Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae)
Author
Sekerka, Lukáš
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Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2016
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journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.5305725
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Plagiometriona bremei
(
Boheman, 1855
)
stat. restit.
Coptocycla Brèmei
Boheman, 1855: 243
(original description).
Type locality.
‘Columbia; Bogota’.
Type material examined.
SYNTYPE
:?♀, pinned,
‘
Colum- | bia [w, p, cb] || M. Wien [w, hw, s] || Type. [w, p, s] || NHRS-JLKB |
000022546
[w, p, cb]
’
(
NHRS
).
Remarks.
BOHEMAN (1855)
described this taxon from at least
two specimens
as he mentioned two depositories (NHRS and collection of
Brême
).
SPAETH (1912)
transferred it to
Plagiometriona
and later, reduced its status to aberration of
P. buqueti
(
Boheman, 1855
)
without any comments (
SPAETH 1937
). Since then,
P. bremei
was considered its junior subjective synonym (see
BOROWIEC 1999a
).
I have examined
types
of both taxa and in my opinion they represent two distinct species and I therefore remove
P. bremei
from synonymy of
P. buqueti
and restore its species status. See
Table 1
for distinguishing characters between the two species.
Distribution.
Colombia
(
BOHEMAN 1855
).