Lectotype designations and nomenclatural changes in Xylographus Mellie (Coleoptera, Ciidae)
Author
Sandoval-Gomez, Vivian Eliana
Author
Lopes-Andrade, Cristiano
Author
Lawrence, John F.
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ZooKeys
2014
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.374.6553
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.374.6553
1313-2970-374-23
Xylographus subsinuatus Pic, 1916
Xylographus subsinuatus
Pic 1916: 4. Type-locality: Madagascar.
Xylographus rufescens
Pic 1921
: 7. syn. n. Type-locality: Bourbon Island (Reunion).
Type series.
MADAGASCAR: male lectotype (MNHN), here designated, labeled: "MADAGASCAR Plantations du Sambirano COLLECTION LE MOULT [printed] \ [red label] Coll. C [handwritten] \ Type [handwritten] \ subsinuatus Pic [handwritten] \ [red label] LECTOTYPE
Xylographus subsinuatus
Pic [handwritten]"; 6 males, 3 females, 17 specimens of undetermined gender, all paralectotypes (MNHN), labeled: "MADAGASCAR Plantations du Sambirano COLLECTION LE MOULT [printed] \ [red label] Coll. C [handwritten] \ [yellow label] PARALECTOTYPE
Xylographus subsinuatus
Pic [handwritten]".
Type material of the junior synonym.
REUNION: male lectotype (MNHN) of
Xylographus rufescens
Pic 1921
, here designated, labeled: "Ile Bourbon n. sp. [handwritten] \ type [handwritten] \ rufescens Pic [handwritten] \ [red label] LECTOTYPE
Xylographus rufescens
Pic [handwritten]".
Remarks.
We observed that the lectotype of
Xylographus rufescens
is a small teneral male of
Xylographus subsinuatus
. We dissected the types and compared the sclerites of abdominal terminalia, which are identical.