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Dermolepida aruensis Lansberge 1879
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Dermolepida aruensis Lansberge, 1879
Rhopaea aruensis Lansberge, 1879: CL.
Lepidioderma aruensis: Brenske 1895: 42.
Dermolepida aruensis: Arrow 1941: 448.
Rhopaea aruense: Britton 1957: 58.
The status of the types of Rhopaea aruensis is not clear. It was described from an unknown number of males and females from the Aru Islands, Indonesia and listed as a synonym of D. albohirtum by Britton (1957). However, direct examination of the syntypes (in IRSB) by James Harrison (University of the Witwatersrand, personal communication) and through images by me suggests that it may represent a different species. This requires further study.
Notes
Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G., 2020, Clarification of the status of the types of Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) described before 1950, pp. 451-486 in Zootaxa 4885 (4) on page 483, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4296848
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Lansberge
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Melolonthidae
- Genus
- Dermolepida
- Species
- aruensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dermolepida aruensis Lansberge, 1879 sec. Allsopp, 2020
References
- Lansberge, J. W. van (1879) Diagnoses de quelques especes nouvelles de buprestides et de scarabaeides de la Malaise. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique, 22, cxlvii-clv.
- Brenske, E. (1895) Uebersicht der Arten der Coleopteren-Gattung " Lepidioderma Wath. ". Societas Entomologica, 9, 41 - 42.
- Arrow, G. J. (1941) Some undescribed species of melolonthid Coleoptera from western New Guinea and the adjacent islands of Waigeu and Japen. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 11, 7, 448 - 464. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745481.1941.9727945
- Britton, E. B. (1957) A revision of the genus Dermolepida (Coleoptera: Melolonthinae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London B, 26, 51 - 59. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1365 - 3113.1957. tb 01509. x