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Chironitis lohsei Balthasar 1968

  • 1. K. Chocholy 16, CZ- 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic; e-mail: bezdek @ entu. cas. cz
  • 2. Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ- 148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic; e-mail: jiri _ hajek @ nm. cz

Description

Chironitis lohsei Balthasar, 1968

Chironitis lohsei Balthasar, 1968: 955.

The holotype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. V. Balthasar):

HOLOTYPE (♀): ‘Shirati / 19 [p] 09. V. [hw] // Africa or. / Katona [p] // ex coll. V. Balthasar / National Museum / Prague, Czech Republic [p] // Chironitis / lohsei n.sp. / ♀ Balthasar [hw] / Holotypus [p, pink label]’.

Current status. Junior subjective synonym of Aptychonitis anomalus (Gestro, 1895), see CAMBEFORT (1976).

Remark. Chironitis Janssens, 1937 is an unjustified emendation of the genus-group name Cheironitis Lansberge, 1875, see BRANCO & ZIANI (2005) for details.

Notes

Published as part of Bezděk, Aleš & Hájek, Jiří, 2013, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 387-442 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1) on page 390, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5739743

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
V
Scientific name authorship
Balthasar
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Chironitis
Species
lohsei
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Chironitis lohsei Balthasar, 1968 sec. Bezděk & Hájek, 2013

References

  • BALTHASAR V. 1968: Neue Scarabaeiden-Arten. Beitrage zur Entomologie 18: 953 - 958.
  • CAMBEFORT Y. 1976: Quelques synonymies de coleopteres Scarabaeinae. Nouvelle Revue d'Entomologie 6: 269 - 272.
  • BRANCO T. & ZIANI S. 2005: Cheironitis Lansberge, 1875 - its correct spelling and validity (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 37: 267 - 272.