The genus Selasia Laporte, 1838 (Coleoptera: Elateridae: Agrypninae) in Sri Lanka
Author
Packova, Gabriela
0000-0001-7949-619X
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, 17. listopadu 50, 77146 Olomouc, Czech Republic. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7949 - 619 X
Author
Kundrata, Robin
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, 17. listopadu 50, 77146 Olomouc, Czech Republic.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-02-05
4926
2
285
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journal article
8296
10.11646/zootaxa.4926.2.8
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Selasia isabellae
Bourgeois, 1909
Selasia
(
Euptilia
)
isabellae
Bourgeois, 1909: 434
;
Olivier (1910: 6)
,
Wittmer (1944: 208)
.
Type material
.
Holotype
, male (coll.
Bugnion
) (according to the original description,
Bourgeois 1909
).
The
type specimen has not been found neither in
MNHN
,
Paris
,
France
(pers. observ. by the senior author) nor in the
Bugnion
collection (pars) in
Musée
cantonal de zoologie,
Lausanne
,
Switzerland
(
A. Freitag
, personal communication).
Type
locality
.
Sri Lanka
:
Puwakpitiya
(
Central Province
, ca.
50 km
E of Colombo
)
.
Remark
. Based on the habitus and shape of pronotum as figured in the original description (
Bourgeois 1909
, plate 12, fig. 6), this species belongs to
Lampyridae
rather than to
Drilini
. Because the
type
specimen has not been located, and the description and figure does not enable us to assign the species to any lampyrid genus with a certainty, we suggest
Selasia isabellae
Bourgeois, 1909
is a species
incertae sedis
.