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Pseudimatidium bicoloricornis Sekerka 2017, comb. nov.

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Description

Pseudimatidium bicoloricornis (Pic, 1926) comb. nov.

Demothispa bicoloricornis Pic, 1926a: 14 (original description).

Type locality. Original type locality ‘Guyane Fr.ʼ specified by DESCARPENTRIES & VILLIERS (1959) to French Guyana: Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni based on the label data of the holotype.

Type material examined. HOLOTYPE: glued, ‘ GUYANE FRANÇSE | St-Jean du Maroni | COLLECTION LE MOULT [w, p, cb] || coll Pic [w, hw by Pic, s] || type [y, hw by Pic, s] || TYPE [r, p, cb] || Museum Paris | Coll. M. Pic [b, p, cb] || bicoloricornis | n sp [w, hw by Pic, s]’ (MNHN).

Remarks. When I was assembling the data for my previous paper on Imatidiini (SEKERKA 2014) I tentatively placed this species to Windsorispa Sekerka, 2014 because PIC (1926a) compared it to W. latifrons (Weise, 1910) and the type was on loan to another researcher. Last year I had opportunity to study the holotype and found that it in fact belongs to the genus Pseudimatidium Aslam, 1966 and is most similar to P. madoni (Pic, 1936), which differs in stronger punctation of elytra and pronotum.

Distribution. French Guyana: Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni (DESCARPENTRIES & VILLIERS 1959).

Notes

Published as part of Sekerka, Lukáš, 2017, Taxonomic changes within Imatidiini and Hybosispini (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae), pp. 351-380 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 57 (2) on page 364, DOI: 10.1515/aemnp-2017-0081, http://zenodo.org/record/5316262

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Biodiversity

Collection code
MNHN
Scientific name authorship
Sekerka
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Chrysomelidae
Genus
Pseudimatidium
Species
bicoloricornis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Pseudimatidium bicoloricornis (Pic, 1926) sec. Sekerka, 2017

References

  • PIC M. 1926 a: Nouveautes diverses. Melanges Exotico-Entomologiques 46: 1 - 32.
  • DESCARPENTRIES A. & VILLIERS A. 1959: Les types de la collection M. Pic. I. Chrysomelinae et Hispinae du nouveau-monde. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris 31: 137 - 154.
  • SEKERKA L. 2014: Review of Imatidiini genera (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54: 257 - 314.
  • WEISE J. 1910: Beitrag zur Kenntnis der amerikanischen Hispinen. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 76: 67 - 127.