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
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1175-5326
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Chaetocnema merguiensis
Bryant, 1941
: 409
-410
(
Fig. 22
)
There is only one
paratype
in
NFIC
with four labels.
Label
1:
White
label—stating collection locality 'BURMA (
Myanmar
):
Mergui
;
i. 1927
; collected by
RN Parker'
.
Label
2: small white label with number '370'.
Label
3:
White
label—'
Chaetocnema merguiensis
Bryant
,
Paratype
(hand written), det.
GE Bryant'
.
Label
4:
Green
label stating '
Paratype'
.
Remarks:
Left antenna with few apical segments missing, left elytron glued to the body.
Comments
: Species was described on the basis of two male specimens, one specimen labeled as paratype is in NFIC.