Fabrician types of Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) deposited in the Natural History Museum, London
Author
Sekerka, Lukáš
Department of Entomology, National Museum, Prague, Cirkusová 1740, CZ- 193 00, Praha, Czech Republic & Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, CZ- 370 05, ýeské BudČjovice, Czech Republic
sagrinae@seznam.cz
Author
Barclay, Maxwell V. L.
The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Rd, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom
m.barclay@nhm.ac.uk
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2014
2014-12-15
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journal article
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Cassida deusta
Fabricius, 1775
(
Figs 13–14
)
Cassida deusta
Fabricius, 1775: 89
.
Type
locality.
‘nova Hollandia’ [=
Australia
].
Type material examined.
SYNTYPES
(
2 specimens
): pinned, one with following label, the other without label: ‘
Cassida deusta
| Fab. Entom. p. [printed] 89. n. 8. [w, hw, s, bf]’ (
BMNH
):
1 specimen
: pinned, ‘deusta [grey and hw by Fabricius pinned separately from the specimen]’ (
JFUK
).
Status in
ZIMSEN (1964)
.
P. 90; No. 1313. ‘London,
2 specimens
(Kiel
1 specimen
)’.
Original description.
‘C. rufescens, thorace punctis duobus, elytris numerosis cyaneo nigris, clypeo integro.Habitat in nova Hollandia. Dom.
Banks
.
Statura nostratum. Antennae apice nigrae. Clypeus rotundatus, integer, rufus, punctis duobus nigris in medio, elytra rufa, punctis circiter novem lateralibus majoribus nigro cyaneis. Margo subtus fasciis tribus. Corpus flavescens.’ (
FABRICIUS 1775
).
Current status.
Aspidimorpha
(
Aspidimorpha
)
deusta
(
Fabricius, 1775
)
.
Remarks.
Cassida deusta
was described from the
Banks
collection and
ZIMSEN (1964)
reported
two specimens
in BMNH and one in JFUK. This is the only case when the JFUK specimen agrees morphologically with those in BMNH and is also pinned on the same kind of pin: therefore all three can probably be regarded as
syntypes
. The taxon is clearly distinct morphologically from other
Aspidimorpha
species
and the name has been correctly applied since its description thus there is no need for a
lectotype
designation.