Clarification of ambiguous genus records for Australian Cleridae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea)
Author
Bartlett, Justin S.
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-12-12
5383
3
375
382
https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/download/zootaxa.5383.3.6/52459
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5383.3.6
1175-5326
10361473
E5C8FDF6-58FF-47A5-81C2-CA54994AA2FE
Genus
Solervicensia
Barr
Solervicensia ovata
(Spinola)
:
Two synonyms of this native species of southern South America were described by
Maurice
Pic from
Australia
:
Korynetes nigrosignatus
Pic, 1941
, synonymised with
S. ovata
above; and
Labasiella duboulayi
Pic, 1950
, synonymised with
S. ovata
by
Solervicens (2001)
who supposed that the published
type
locality ‘Swan River’ must correspond with a labelling error. It could, however, be possible that the error relates more to interpretation of the label as there is a Rio Cisnes (i.e., Swan River) in the
Aysén Province
of
Chile
(
Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region
), within the documented range of
S. ovata
(
Solervicens 2001
)
. The association of the specimen with Francis Houssemayne du Boulay, an English collector who immigrated to
Western Australia
in the late 1850’s, cannot be explained, but the
L. duboulayi
type
specimen (
Fig. 5
, examined by the author) is definitely a specimen of
S. ovata
, a species not represented by a single specimen confirmed as having been collected in
Australia
.
Distribution:
Chile
and
Argentina
(
Solervicens 2001
).
Status:
Non-native
and absent in
Australia
(probable erroneous Australian
type
localities of synonyms; no Australian specimens known)
.