Melobasina apicalis Kerremans 1900
- 1. Czech University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Department of Forest Protection and Game Management, Kamýcká 1176, CZ- 165 21 Praha 6 - Suchdol, Czech Republic; e-mail: svatopluk _ bily @ nm. cz
- 2. Department of Entomology, National Museum, Golčova 1, CZ- 148 00 Praha 4 - Kunratice, Czech Republic; e-mail: vkuban @ volny. cz
- 3. Zoological Institute RAS, Universitetskaya nab. 1, R- 199034 Saint Petersburg, Russia; e-mail: polycest @ zin. ru
Description
(Figs. 59–65, 123, 128)
Melobasina apicalis Kerremans, 1900b: 69. Type locality: Papua New Guinea, Louisiade Archipelago, Tagula Island (‘Ile Tugela’).
Melobasina apicalis: KERREMANS (1903): 144 (list of species; distribution: ‘Ile Tugela’), pl. 2, Fig. 2; OBENBERGER (1930): 420 (catalogue; distribution: ‘Ins. Tugela’); BELLAMY (2002): 62 (catalogue); BELLAMY (2008): 625 (catalogue; distribution:Australasian: ‘Tugela Island’).
Nosotrinchus [sic!] Ignitus Théry, 1937: 647, syn. nov. Type locality: Papua New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Bougainville province, Bougainville Island, Buin.
Nesotrinchus ignitus: BELLAMY (1987): 101 (note).
Melobasina ignita: BELLAMY (2008): 625 (catalogue; new combination; distribution:Australasian: Solomon Islands – mistake).
Misidentification. Melobasina apicalis Kerremans sensu BELLAMY (2003): 120, Fig. 185. The specimen is in fact a syntype of Nesotrinchus simondsi.
Type material examined. Melobasina apicalis: LECTOTYPE (designated here): ♀ (BMNH), PAPUA NEW GUINEA: LOUISIADE ARCHIPELAGO: ‘Tugela [= Tagula Island], Sol[omon]. Is. ([C. M.] Wodford [leg.]) [p] / apicalis Kerr. Type. [h] / Type [p] [red-framed round label] / Melobasina Kerrem. [h] / M. apicalis Kerr. I. Tugela [h] / Kerremans. 1903–59. [p]’. Since the number of syntypes is unknown, we designate here the female specimen from BMHN as the lectotype to avoid any confusion in the future.
Melobasina ignita: HOLOTYPE (by monotypy): ♀ (NHMB, coll. G. Frey), PAPUA NEW GUINEA: BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO: Bougainville Island: ‘Buin Ile Salomon [h] / Nosotrinchus ignitus Thery [h] Type [p, red] / keine Type aber Paratype 1956 det. Kamp [h]’.
Additional material examined. SOLOMON ISLANDS: GUADALCANAL ISLAND: ‘Wanderers Bay 84. 3 [h] / Solomon Islands, W Guadalcanal Isl., Wanderer Bay coast [h, Kubáň’ s writing] / Melobasina fossicollis Kerr. det from descr. [h] B.Levey det. 196 [p] 8 [h]’ (2 ♀♀, BMNH).
Remarks. BELLAMY (2008) formally transferred ‘ Nesotrinchus ignitus ’ to the genus Melobasina. We have studied the types of M. ignita and M. apicalis and two females from Guadalcanal and failed to find any substantial differences and we consider them conspecific, M. ignita (Fig. 65) being a junior subjective synonym of M. apicalis (Fig. 59). HOŁYŃSKI (1993: 27) most probably studied specimens from Guadalcanal deposited in BMNH and determined by B. Levey as ‘ Melobasina fossicollis Kerr. ’ (see above).
Distribution. Papua New Guinea (Bismarck Archipelago: Bougainville Island; Louisiade Archipelago: Tagula Island), Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal Island).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Buprestidae
- Genus
- Melobasina
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Kerremans
- Species
- apicalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melobasina apicalis Kerremans, 1900 sec. Bílý, Kubáň & Volkovitsh, 2009
References
- KERREMANS C. 1900 b: Buprestides Indo-Malais. Troisieme partie. Memoires de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 7: 61 - 93.
- KERREMANS C. 1903: Coleoptera Serricornia. Fam. Buprestidae, Fascicule XII (b - d). Pp. 49 - 338, 4 colour plates. In: WYTSMAN P. (ed.) 1902 - 1903: Genera Insectorum. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Bruxelles, (4) + 338 pp., 4 colour plates.
- OBENBERGER J. 1930: Buprestidae II. Pars 111. Pp. 213 - 568. In: SCHENKLING S. (ed.) 1926 - 1935: Coleopterorum Catalogus. Volumen XII. W. Junk, Berlin - Den Haag, pp. 1 - 934.
- BELLAMY C. L. 2002: Coleoptera: Buprestoidea. Pp. 1 - 485, pls. 1 - 4. In: HOUSTON W. W. K. (ed.): Zoological catalogue of Australia. Vol. 29.5. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, xii + 492 pp, 4 colour plates.
- BELLAMY C. L. 2008: A world catalogue and bibliography of the jewel beetles (Coleoptera: Buprestoidea). Volume 1. Introduction; fossil taxa; Schizopodidae; Buprestidae: Julodinae - Chrysochroinae: Poecilonotini. Pensoft Series Faunistica, No. 76, (1 - 2) + 1 - 626 pp.
- THERY A. 1937: New Buprestid beetles collected in the Solomon Islands and Fiji Islands by Dr. W. M. Mann, with descriptions of some other new Indo-Malayan species. Psyche 44: 33 - 55.
- BELLAMY C. L. 1987: A new species of Nesotrinchus Obenberger from Tonga (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Coleopterists Bulletin 41: 101 - 105.
- BELLAMY C. L. 2003: An illustrated summary of the higher classification of the superfamily Buprestoidea (Coleoptera). Folia Heyrovskyana, Supplementum 10: 1 - 197.
- HOLYNSKI R. 1993: A reassessment of the internal classification of the Buprestidae Leach (Coleoptera). Crystal, Series Zoologica 1: 1 - 42.