An illustrated catalogue of the New Zealand marsh beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae)
Author
Kiałka, Agata
Author
Ruta, Rafał
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-12-22
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10.11646/zootaxa.4366.1.1
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Atopida testacea
Broun, 1880
(
Fig. 8G
)
Atopida testacea
Broun 1880: 314
. Pic 1914: 16 (catalogue). Macfarlane
et al.
2011: 420 (catalogue).
Type locality.
Parua.
Broun number:
565.
Type material examined.
2 exx.
Syntype
(NHM): card-mounted, “565”, “Parua” [in Broun’s hand], “New Zealand. [red underline] \ Broun Coll. \ Brit. Mus. \ 1922-482.”, “
Atopida
\
testacea
.” [in Broun’s hand].
Syntype
(NHM): “var” [handwritten], “565.”, “New Zealand. [red underline] \ Broun Coll. \ Brit. Mus. \ 1922-482.”
Remarks.
Broun studied four “more or less damaged” specimens collected in Parua. Two of them corresponded with the original description, while the two remaining specimens had a much more developed labium (Broun 1880).