Published June 26, 2024 | Version v1
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Nyctophanes bisignata Motschulsky 1854

  • 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

Nyctophanes bisignata Motschulsky, 1854a

Figs 62–64

Nyctophanes bisignata Motschulsky, 1854a: 12.

Type material examined

Holotype BRAZIL • ♀; “bisignatum,, Motsch” // “Typ” // “ Aspisoma,, bisignatum,, M” [E. Olivier handwriting] // “Brasil.”; ZIN.

Preservation status

Well-preserved, missing one antenna.

Remarks

Motschulsky listed Mannerheim as the provider of the type specimen for this species.

Current status

Aspisoma bisignatum (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 43, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.943.2575, http://zenodo.org/record/12587553

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
ZIN
Scientific name authorship
Motschulsky
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Lampyridae
Genus
Nyctophanes
Species
bisignata
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Nyctophanes bisignata 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.