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Basilianus interrogationis Kuwert 1891

  • 1. ) &) Biology Centre CAS, Institute of Entomology, Branišovská 31, CZ- 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic; e-mail: bezdek @ entu. cas. cz
  • 2. ) &) Département Systématique & Évolution, Entomologie, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CP 50, 57 rue Cuvier, F- 75231 Paris, France; e-mail: sbl @ mnhn. fr
  • 3. ) &) Department of Entomology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, CZ- 19300 Praha 9 - Horní Počernice, Czech Republic; e-mail: jiri _ hajek @ nm. cz

Description

Basilianus interrogationis Kuwert, 1891

Basilianus interrogationis Kuwert, 1891: 164.

One syntype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. Nickerl).

SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Helfer [hw Kuwert] // Passal. / Tenass. [hw Nickerl, white label, red margin] // Tenasser. / Helfer [hw Nickerl, yellow label] // Basilianus / interrogation. / Kuwert typ / 53 [hw Nickerl] // Basilianus / interrogati- / onis Kuw. [hw Nickerl, yellow label] // Coll. Nickerl / Mus. Pragense [p] // TYPUS [p, red label, black margin] // interrogationis / Kuw. / syntype revised [hw] / S. Boucher det. [p] 13 [hw]’.

Current status. Junior subjective synonym of Ophrygonius cantori (Percheron, 1844), see e.g. HINCKS & DIBB (1935).

Remark. The locality of the syntype does not agree exactly with the original type locality, which is ‘Sikkim’. However, we follow the same principle as in the previous species, A. hirsutus. The specimen in NMPC belongs to the same species as specimens in Kuwert’s collection. All of them have the length as in the original description, and certainly they came from the same series as the specimen from ‘Helfer’ in the Kuwert’s collection.

Notes

Published as part of Bezděk, Aleš, Boucher, Stéphane, Hájek, Jiří & Cas, Biology Centre, 2017, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 279-293 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57 (1) on page 286

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References

  • KUWERT A. F. 1891: Systematische Uebersicht der Passaliden-Arten und Gattungen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1891: 161 - 192.
  • HINCKS W. D. & DIBB J. R. 1935: Passalidae. In: JUNK W. & SCHENKLING S. (eds): Coleopterorum Catalogus, Pars 142. W. Junk, s'Gravenhage, 118 pp.