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Ellychnia californica Motschulsky 1854
Authors/Creators
- 1. Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Coleoptera (LASEC), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA). Av. Bem-Te-Vi, 8 - 406 - Campus II, Petrópolis, 69067 - 001, Manaus, AM, Brazil.
- 2. Laboratory of Insect Systematics, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya nab. 1, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia.
- 3. Biology Department, Western Carolina University, 535 Apodaca Building, 1 University Drive Cullowhee, NC 28723, USA.
Description
Ellychnia californica Motschulsky, 1854a
Figs 14–16
Ellychnia californica Motschulsky, 1854a: 3.
Type material examined
Lectotype (designated here) USA • ♀; “ Ellychnia,, californica,, Motsch” [E. Olivier handwriting] // “Typ” // “californica,, M. P.”// “Nov. Helvet.”; ZIN.
Preservation status
Complete, well-preserved.
Remarks
Kazantsev & Nikitsky (2008) found a male syntype from ZMMU, which was missing its head, as well as its pro and mesothorax. Here, we designate a female lectotype from ZIN, which renders the ZMMU specimen a paralectotype. “Nov. Helv.” (New Switzerland) probably refers to present-day Sacramento, California.
Current status
Photinus californicus (Motschulsky, 1854a).
Notes
Published as part of Lima, William, Moseyko, Alexey G. & Silveira, Luiz Felipe Lima Da, 2024, New world lampyrid types at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pp. 24-58 in European Journal of Taxonomy 943 on page 31, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.943.2575, http://zenodo.org/record/12587553
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZIN
- Scientific name authorship
- Motschulsky
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Lampyridae
- Genus
- Ellychnia
- Species
- californica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ellychnia californica Motschulsky, 1854 sec. Lima, Moseyko & Silveira, 2024
References
- Motschulsky V. I. 1854 a. Lampyrides. Etudes Entomologiques 2: 1 - 14; 2: 33 - 43. Imprimerie de la Societe de Literature Finnoise, Helsinki.
- Kazantsev S. V. & Nikitsky N. B. 2008. Types of fireflies (Coleoptera, Lampyridae) in the Motschulsky collection at the Zoological Museum of Moscow Lomonosov University. Bulletin de la Societe des Naturalistes de Moscou 113 (5): 23 - 30.