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 49 1 297 332 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 .