Review of some species in the genera Pselaphodes Westwood and Labomimus Sharp (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)
Author
Yin, Zi-Wei
Author
Li, Li-Zhen
text
Zootaxa
2015
4040
3
331
344
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4040.3.5
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1175-5326
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1.
Labomimus antennatus
(
Bryant, 1915
)
(
Fig. 1
)
Pselaphodes antennatus
Bryant, 1915
: 299
.
Labomimus antennatus
;
Hlaváč 2003b
: 286
(synonymized with
Labomimus heterocerus
Raffray,
1882
in
Hlaváč 2003a
: 93
).
Type
material examined.
Pselaphodes antennatus
:
Lectotype
(fixed by present designation; in
BMNH
):
MALAYSIA
: ♂ (left metatibia and metatarsus missing;
Fig. 1
A), with eight labels (
Fig. 1
B): ‘Quop, W.
Sarawak
, G. E. Bryant.
14. III. 14
. (printed) / ♂ (printed) / H 81 (handwritten) / G. Bryant Coll. B. M.
1926—86
. (printed) /
Type
(round handwritten label with a red rim) /
Pselaphodes antennatus
Type
♂ Bryant (handwritten) /
PSELAPHODES antennatus
BRYANT
P. Hlaváč det. 2000 (specific name and author in handwritten) /
Lectotype
♂,
Pselaphodes antennatus
Bryant
, des. Z.-W. Yin 2015 (handwritten)’.
Lectotype
designation.
Bryant (1915: 299)
described
Pselaphodes antennatus
based on the male sex only, but he did not mention the number of the specimens he examined nor did he explicitly fix a name-bearing
type
. With a possibility that other specimens may exist, the single male found in the
BMNH
is treated as a
syntype
. According to Article 74.7 of
ICZN
, the treatment in
Hlaváč (2003b)
of this male as the ‘holotype’ is considered a misuse of the term, and has no validation in
type
fixation. In order to ensure the stability of nomenclature and provide a unique name-bearing
type
for the name, we here designate this male as the
lectotype
(Recommendation 73F).
Date of synonymy.
In his 2003 publication,
Hlaváč (2003a: 93)
mentioned that the name
Labomimus antennatus
was placed as a junior synonym of
Labomimus heterocerus
(Raffray)
in a revision in press, to be published in the 2002 volume of the Bulletin de la Société entomologique de
France
. Later in 2003, the revision was published, but without this synonymy established, only with a new combination, by moving this species from
Pselaphodes
to
Labomimus
(
Hlaváč 2003b: 286
)
. Since the name
Pselaphodes antennatus
was listed under
Labomimus heterocerus
in
Hlaváč 2003a
, and the author’s intention in synonymizing these two names was made clear, the 2003a work is considered the correct publication in which the synonymy was first established.