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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Elytropachys sandalensis
Bryant, 1941
: 413
-414
(
Fig. 23
)
In
NFIC
there are fourteen
paratypes
.
All
with similar labels—Label 1:
White
label one stating collection locality '
INDIA
:
Tamil Nadu
,
Jawalagiri
,
North Salem
;
02.x.1930
; collected by
FRI
Sandal Insect Survey'
.
Label
2:
Small
label with number '1395'.
Label
3: with '
Plot
13'.
Label
4:
White
label –'
Elytropachys sandalensis
Bryant
,
Paratype
(hand written), det.
GE Bryant'
.
Label
5:
Green
label stating '
Paratype'
.
Remarks:
Right antenna of the photographed
paratype
with scape only.
Comments
: The species was described based on 23 specimens, all collected from Jawalagiri with numbers 1394, 1395,
1458 to 1468
,
1472 to 1474
,
1480 to 1483
,
1494 and 1513
. In NFIC specimens bearing the numbers 1394, 1395,
1458- 60
, 62-64, 1472,
1480-82
,
1494 and 1513
are present with details as mentioned above. Rest of the specimens with numbers 1458, 1461,
1465-68
,
1473-74
and 1483 which may have been designated as holotype and paratypes are deposited elsewhere.