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Galleruca lunata Fabricius 1801

  • 1. Biodiversity Inventory for Conservation npo (BINCO), Walmersumstraat 44, 3380 Glabbeek, Belgium. & Department of Biology, Ecosphere Research Group, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.
  • 2. Zoological Museum, University of Kiel, Hegewischstr. 3, D- 24105 Kiel, Germany.
  • 3. Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, ARS, c / o Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.

Description

Galleruca lunata Fabricius, 1801

Figs 22–23

lunata Fabricius, 1801: 494 (America meridionali).

Material examined

Lectotype (presently designated)

COUNTRY NOT INDICATED ON SPECIMEN • ♀; “ G. lunata en Am. Mer. Schmidt/ TYPE/ Lectotype Galleruca lunata Fabricius 1801 des. Van Roie, Kuhlmann, Mack & Konstantinov, 2023”; Kiel; ZMUC 00031096.

Paralectotype

COUNTRY NOT INDICATED ON SPECIMEN • 1 ♀; “ lunata; red squared label] / Lectotype Galleruca lunata Fabricius 1801 des. Van Roie, Kuhlmann, Mack & Konstantinov, 2023”; ex-Copenhagen.

Status in Zimsen (1964)

P. 111 No.1723. ‘in America meridionali D. Smidt Mus. D. Lund’ Copenhagen 1 specimen, Kiel 1 specimen.

Original description

“G. saltatoria, ferruginea, thorace elytrorum lunula falsciisque duabus albis. Habitat in America meridionali. D. Smidt. Mus. D. Lund. Magna. Caput ferrigineum, antennis fulcis. Thorax albus, immaculatus. Elytra laevia, brunnea, nitida, lunula baseos, margine fasciisque duabus albis. Corpus ferrugineum.”

Current status

Alagoasa lunata (Fabricius, 1801).

Measurements

Lectotype (Fig. 22): LB = 5.02 mm; WB = 3.08 mm. Paralectotype (Fig. 23): LB = 4.92 mm; WB = 2.99 mm.

Remarks

The lectotype for Galleruca lunata is designated here to have a unique bearer of this name and the standard for its application. The right antenna of the lectotype is missing segments 9–11, the rest of the specimen is intact. We confirm the correct placement in the genus Alagoasa based on the following characters: frontal ridge relatively narrow, vertex with a few punctures, sides of pronotum widely explanate, body broadly curved (see also Konstantinov et al. 2022).

Notes

Published as part of Roie, Martijn Van, Kuhlmann, Michael, Mack, Anne & Konstantinov, Alexander, 2024, Fabrician types of new world Oedionychina Chapuis, 1875 (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Alticini) deposited in the Zoological Museum of Kiel University collections with notes on Fabrician types of other collections and new combinations for species formerly placed in the subtribe, pp. 1-60 in European Journal of Taxonomy 920 (1) on pages 32-35, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.920.2411, http://zenodo.org/record/10575389

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
Kiel
Material sample ID
ZMUC 00031096
Scientific name authorship
Fabricius
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Chrysomelidae
Genus
Galleruca
Species
lunata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype , paralectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Galleruca lunata Fabricius, 1801 sec. Roie, Kuhlmann, Mack & Konstantinov, 2024

References

  • Fabricius J. C. 1801. Systema Eleutheratorum secundum ordines, genera, species: adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tom. I (Vol. xxiv). Bibliopolii Academici Novi, Kiel [Kiliae].
  • Zimsen E. 1964. The Type Material of I. C. Fabricius. Munksgaard, Copenhagen.
  • Konstantinov A. S., Van Roie M., Furth D., Clark S. M. & Riley E. 2022. Flea beetles of the West Indies: Subtribe Oedionychina Chapuis 1875, key to genera, new combinations, synonymy, checklist, and description of new genera and species (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Galerucinae, Alticini). Journal of Insect Biodiversity 33: 1 - 56. https: // doi. org / 10.12976 / jib / 2022.33.1.1