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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journal article
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Mesocyphon marmoratus
Sharp, 1878
(
Fig. 14L
)
Mesocyphon marmoratus
Sharp 1878: 50
. Broun 1880: 317 (reprinted excerpt of Sharp 1878). Pic 1914: 28 (catalogue). Macfarlane
et al.
2011: 421 (catalogue).
Type locality.
Tairua.
Broun number:
572.
Type
material examined.
5 exx.
Syntype
(
NHM
): card-mounted, “
Mesocyphon
mar- \ moratus \
Type
D. S.
\ Tairua, Broun” [written at base of card in
Sharp’s
hand], “Tairua, [red underline] \
New Zealand
.
\ Broun.”, “Sharp Coll. \ 1905-313.”
Syntype
(
NHM
): card-mounted, “
Mesocyphon
mar- \ moratus, Ind. typ. \
D. S.
\ Tairua, Broun” [written at base of card in
Sharp’s
hand], “Tairua, [red underline] \
New Zealand
.
\ Broun.”, “Sharp Coll. \ 1905- 313.”
Syntype
(
NHM
): card-mounted, genitalia mounted on glass slide pinned together with the specimen, “
Mesocyphon
mar- \ moratus. \
Ind.
typ. \
D. S.
\
Tairua
,
Broun
” [written at base of card in
Sharp’s
hand], “M. mar- \ moratus \
♂
” [handwritten ad base of genitalia slide] “
Tairua
, [red underline] \
New Zealand
.
\ Broun.”, “Sharp Coll. \ 1905-313.”
Syntype
(
NHM
): disarticulated specimen, card-mounted, “
Mesocyphon
mar- \ moratus.
D. S.
\ Tairua, Broun” [written at base of card in
Sharp’s
hand], “Tairua, [red underline] \
New Zealand
.
\ Broun.”, “Sharp Coll. \ 1905-313.”
Syntype
(
NHM
): “
Mesocyphon
mar- \ moratus. \ Ind. typ. \
D. S.
\ Tairua, Broun” [written at base of card in
Sharp’s
hand], “Tairua, [red underline] \
New Zealand
. \ Broun.”, “Sharp Coll. \ 1905-313.”
Remarks.
Sharp received “half a dozen” individuals from Captain Broun collected from Tairua (Sharp 1878).