The collection of the genus Mispila Pascoe, 1864 housed in the Natural History Museum, London (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Author Xie, Guanglin 0000-0002-4482-076X Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW 7 5 BD, UK. & Institute of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, 434025, China wwk @ yangtzeu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4482 - 076 X wwk@yangtzeu.edu.cn Author Barclay, Maxwell V. L. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW 7 5 BD, UK. Author Wang, Wenkai 0000-0002-4482-076X Institute of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, Hubei, 434025, China wwk @ yangtzeu. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4482 - 076 X wwk@yangtzeu.edu.cn text Zootaxa 2023 2023-10-03 5352 2 245 265 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5352.2.6 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5352.2.6 1175-5326 8407247 8D2CD481-8C0E-4E14-A8FE-5C5F43A81D28 Mispila ( s. str. ) obscura Gahan, 1890 ( Figure 5 ) Mispila obscura Gahan, 1890: 62 ; Kariyanna et al ., 2017: 193 . Mispila ( Mispila ) obscura : Aurivillius, 1922: 275 ; Breuning, 1961a: 281 ; Breuning, 1963b: 477 . Alidus madurensis Pic, 1925: 25 . Type material examined. India . Lectotype , female (here designated, Figure 5a–d ): ‘ Type [p, label circular, red framed]; Nilgiri Hills. / G. F. Hampson. / 94–89. [p]; Mispila / obscura / Gahan / Type [h]; NHMUK014596487 ’; Paralectotype , 1 male (here indicated, Figure 5e–h ): ‘ Nilgiri Hills. / G. F. Hampson. / 94–89. [p]; m. obscura [h]; NHMUK014596465 ’. Non-type material examined. India : 1 female : ‘ Nilgiri Hills / H. L. Andrewes [p]; Andrewes Bequest / B. M. 1922–221. [p]; Mispila obscura Gah. , [h] / Breuning det. [p]’; 1 female : ‘ Nilgiri Hills / H. L. Andrewes [p]; Andrewes Bequest / B. M. 1922–221. [p]; Mispila obscura Gah. [h] / det. Breuning [p]’. Comments. Two syntypes were confirmed in the collection. Herein we designated the female specimen as the lectotype , which has been labelled with a handwritten identification label marked with ‘Type’.