Rhopaea assimilis Blackburn 1911
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Rhopaea assimilis Blackburn, 1911
Rhopaea assimilis Blackburn, 1911: 191.
Rhodaea assimilis: Lea 1912: xxxvi (in error).
Lectotype (here designated) male: Type H. T. (circular red ringed, typeset) | 3270 Bulli [34.30°S, 150.92°E] (red, handwritten) T (handwritten) | Blackburn coll. 1910-236 (typeset) | RHOPAEA assimilis Blackb. (handwritten) | aedeagus dissected out and mounted on card | my lectotype label; in NHML.
Blackburn (1911) did not define the type series, seeing an unknown number of males (vide Articles 73.1.2, 72.1.1). Lea (1912) noted that the ‘type’ had been sent to NHML, and Britton (1978) referred to a “ holotype ” male from Bulli in NHML. Houston & Weir (1992) listed a “ holotype (probable)”. As Britton (1978) and Houston & Weir (1992) provided no discussion and did not label any specimen in NHML, neither mention of a holotype constitutes a valid lectotype designation (vide Article 74.5). To stabilise nomenclature, I designate the male in NHML the lectotype.
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- T, NHML
- Scientific name authorship
- Blackburn
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Melolonthidae
- Genus
- Rhopaea
- Species
- assimilis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhopaea assimilis Blackburn, 1911 sec. Allsopp, 2020
References
- Blackburn, T. (1911) Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. No. XLI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 35, 173 - 203.
- Lea, A. M. (1912) The late Rev. Canon Thomas Blackburn, B. A., and his entomological work. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 36, v-xl.
- Britton, E. B. (1978) A revision of the Australian chafers (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae). Vol. 2. Tribe Melolonthini. Australian Journal of Zoology, Supplementary Series, 60, 1 - 150. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / AJZS 060
- Houston, W. W. K. & Weir, T. A. (1992) Melolonthinae. In: Houston, W. W. K. (Ed.), Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea. Vol. 9. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, pp. 174 - 358.