Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
Author
Bezděk, Aleš
Biology Centre ASCR, Institute of Entomology, Branišovská 31, CZ- 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic; e-mail: bezdek @ entu. cas. cz
Author
Hájek, Jiří
Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ- 148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic; e-mail: jiri _ hajek @ nm. cz
Author
Ascr, Biology Centre
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2009
2009-06-30
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5319147
0374-1036
5319147
Trox novaecaledoniae
Balthasar, 1966
Trox novae-caledoniae
Balthasar, 1966: 184
, Fig. 4.
Four
paratypes
are deposited in NMPC (ex coll. V. Balthasar):
PARATYPE
(J): ‘
NEW CALEDONIA
/ Beach nr La Foa /
19. XI. 1958
[p] // Under dead fish / in sand [p] // C. R. Joyce / Collector [p] //
Trox
novae- / caledoniae n. sp. / Balthasar 66 [hw] /
Paratypus
[p, pink label] //
Trox costatus Wied.
/ =
T. novaecaledoniae
/ Balth. N. SYN. / Det. PITTINO 1985 [hw]’.
PARATYPES
(3 unsexed specimens): ‘
NEW CALEDONIA
/ Beach nr La Foa /
19. XI. 1958
[p] // Under dead fish / in sand [p] // C. R. Joyce / Collector [p] //
Trox
novae- / caledoniae n. sp. / Balthasar 66 [hw] /
Paratypus
[p, pink label]’.
Current status.
Junior subjective synonym of
Omorgus
(
Omorgus
)
suberosus
(Fabricius, 1775)
, see
SCHOLTZ (1986
,
1990
).
Remark.
Five
paratypes
were originally housed in coll. Balthasar (
BALTHASAR 1966
) but we found only
four paratypes
.Although Pittino indicated this species as a junior subjective synonym of
Trox costatus
Wiedemann, 1823
[currently
Omorgus
(
Afromorgus
)
costatus
],
SCHOLTZ (1986
,
1990
) reported it as a junior subjective synonym of
Omorgus
(
Omorgus
)
suberosus
.