Melobasina fossicollis
Authors/Creators
- 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
Exagistus fossicollis Kerremans, 1906: 415. Type locality: Solomon Islands: Shortland Island [Not Bismark Archipelago!]
Melobasina fossicollis: OBENBERGER (1923): 17 (note; new combination); OBENBERGER (1930): 420 (catalogue; distribution: ‘Archipel Bismarck’ – mistake); HOŁYŃSKI (1993): 27 (note); BELLAMY (2008): 625 (catalogue; distribution: Australasian: Papua New Guinea, Bismark Archipelago – mistake).
Remarks. KERREMANS (1906) mentioned ‘2 exemplaires, des îles Shortland’ (length 13 mm, width 4 mm); OBENBERGER (1923) transferred this species to the genus Melobasina, evidently based on the study of one of both syntypes and on illustration of M. apicalis in KERREMANS (1903). In the corresponding volume of Obenberger’s catalogue (Obenberger 1930: 420) from the library of Obenberger (deposited in NMPC), we can find his handwritten note that this species is represented in his collection (deposited in NMPC) but we failed to find any corresponding specimen in the collection. It is evident from the description that the type specimens came from the collection of H. E. R. von Bennigsen. A part of Bennigsen’s collection (including material from New Guinea and Bismark Archipelago) was deposited in DEIC (HORN et al. 1990) and the rest was left in the collection of Bennigsen in Waitze an der Warthe (now Wiejce, by Warta river, Wojewódstwo Lubuskie, western Poland) but this species is not mentioned in the list of types deposited in DEIC (GAEDIKE 1985) and we failed to find any data about the fate of the rest of Bennigsen’s collection (e.g. in GAEDIKE 1995). According to BELLAMY (2008), the type is deposited in MNHN but we did not find this type in MNHN or BMNH. It is also not mentioned in the list of types housed in IRSN. Given the original description and the type locality, we accept the transfer proposed by OBENBERGER (1923). We are also inclined to believe that M. fossicollis and M. apicalis are conspecific.
Distribution. Solomon Islands (Shortland Island).
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Kerremans
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Buprestidae
- Genus
- Melobasina
- Species
- fossicollis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melobasina fossicollis (Kerremans, 1906) sec. Bílý, Kubáň & Volkovitsh, 2009
References
- KERREMANS C. 1906: Buprestides recueillis par M. Von Bennigsen en Nouvelle Guinee et dans l'Archipel Bismarck. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1906: 412 - 416.
- OBENBERGER J. 1923: Rada novych rodu celedi Buprestidae (Coleoptera). Une serie de nouveaux genres de Buprestides. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 1: 13 - 44.
- 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.
- HOLYNSKI R. 1993: A reassessment of the internal classification of the Buprestidae Leach (Coleoptera). Crystal, Series Zoologica 1: 1 - 42.
- 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.
- 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.
- HORN W., KAHLE I., FRIESE G. & GAEDIKE R. 1990: Collectiones entomologicae. Ein Kompendium uber den Verblieb entomologischer Sammlungen der Welt bis 1960. Teil I: A bis K. Akademie der Landwirtschaftswissenschaften der DDR, Berlin, pp. 1 - 220.
- GAEDIKE H. 1985: Katalog der in den Sammlungen der Abteilung Taxonomie der Insekten des Institutes fur Pflanzenschutzforschung, Bereich Eberswalde (ehemals Deutsches Entomologisches Institut), aufbewahrten Typen - XXIII. (Coleoptera: Rhipiceridae, Cebrionidae, Elateridae, Eucnemidae, Throscidae, Chelonariidae, Buprestidae, Phylloceridae, Dicronychidae, Dascillidae, Helodidae, Dryopidae, Georyssidae, Heteroceridae, Dermestidae, Byrrhidae). Beitrage zur Entomologie 35: 13 - 96.
- GAEDIKE R. 1995: Collectiones entomologicae (1961 - 1994). Nova Supplementa Entomologica 6: 3 - 83.