<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Taumacera seminigra Reid 1999</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> </head> <body> <h2> <i>Taumacera seminigra</i> Reid, 1999</h2> <p>(Fig. 79)</p> <p> <i>Metellus nigripennis</i> Jacoby, 1899: 297 (original description, junior secondary homonym, nec <i>Platyxantha nigripennis</i> Jacoby, 1884).</p> <p> <i>Taumacera seminigra</i> Reid, 1999: 3 (replacement name for <i>Metellus nigripennis</i> Jacoby, 1899 nec <i>Platyxantha nigripennis</i> Jacoby, 1884).</p> <p> <b>Type material examined.</b> <i>Metellus nigripennis</i> Jacoby, 1899: SYNTYPES: 1 ♁, ‘Type / H. T. [white round label with red collar, p] // Dohrn / Sumatra / Soekaranda [w, h] // Jacoby Coll. / 1909-28a [w, p] // Metellus / nigripennis / Jac. [b, h] // SYN- / TYPE [white round label with pale blue collar, p]’ (BMNH); 1 ♀, ‘Dohrn / Sumatra / Soekaranda [w, h] // Jacoby Coll. / 1909-28a [w, p] // nigripennis Jac. [grey, h] // SYN- / TYPE [white round label with pale blue collar, p]’ (BMNH); 1 ♀, ‘Dohrn / Sumatra / Soekaranda [w, h] // Jacoby Coll. / 1909-28a [w, p] // SYN- / TYPE [white round label with pale blue collar, p]’ (BMNH).</p> <p> <b>Additional material examined. INDONESIA: SUMATRA:</b> Liangagas, 1 ♀, Dohrn leg. (ZMHB).</p> <p> <b>Comments.</b> JACOBY (1899) described <i>Metellus nigripennis</i> only from one locality, Soekaranda. Therefore the female specimen labelled as cotype in the ZMHB collected in Liangagas cannot be treated as part of the type series.</p> </body> </html>