New synonymies for Australian Cleridae (Coleoptera)
Author
Bartlett, Justin S.
text
Zootaxa
2015
4057
2
281
287
journal article
39294
10.11646/zootaxa.4057.2.9
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Lemidia maculicollis
Gorham
Lemidia maculicollis
Gorham, 1877
: 252
.
Lemidia maculicollis
,
var.
apicalis
Gorham, 1877
: 253
(
Fig. 9
).
Lemidia bilineatra
Lea, 1907
: 353
syn. n.
(
Fig. 10
).
Material examined.
Lemidia maculicollis
Gorham
:
LECTOTYPE
(here designated): 29963 /
TYPE
/ Gorham
type
/ Nov. Holl. Moreton Is. / Fry Coll. 1905. 100 / Maculi - collis Gorh. /
Lemidia maculicollis Gorham Austr. Moreton Bay
(
BMNH
).
PARALECTOTYPE
(here designated):
TYPE
/ Nov. Holl. Moreton Is. / Fry Coll. 1905. 100 (1,
BMNH
).
Lemidia maculicollis
var.
apicalis
Gorham
:
LECTOTYPE
(here designated): 32283 /
TYPE
/ Nov. Holl. Moreton Is. / Fry Coll. 1905. 100 / L. apicalis Gorh. /
Lemidia var. apicalis Gorham Austr. Moreton Bay
(
BMNH
).
Lemidia bilineatra
Lea
:
LECTOTYPE
(here designated):
Lemidia bilineatra Lea
TYPE
Victoria (
SAMA
).
Remarks.
The
lectotypes
of
L. maculicollis
var.
apicalis
and
L. bilineatra
are extremely similar, differing by the former having a wholly orange pronotum and an ill-defined pale brown preapical spot on each elytron, and the latter with a pair of dark, longitudinal, paramedial stripes on the pronotum and lacking the preapical elytral spot. While the
L. maculicollis
lectotype
has similar pronotal stripes as that of
L. bilineatra
, the triangular, white, laterally positioned elytral macula of
L. maculicollis
var.
apicalis
and
L. bilineatra
is almost obsolete. The proposed synonymy is based on the overlapping degrees of variation observed among all three
type
specimens.