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Melixanthus coorgensis Bryant 1941
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Description
Melixanthus coorgensis Bryant, 1941: 405
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NFIC has only one paratype with five labels, Label 1: White label stating collection locality '(INDIA: Tamil Nadu); North Salem, Aiyur; 4.viii.1930; collected by FRI Sandal Insect Survey'. Label 2: white with ' Plot 18'. Label 3: with number '659'. Label 4: White label with ' Melixanthus coorgensis Bryant, Paratype (hand written), Det. GE Bryant'. Label 5: Green label stating ' Paratype'.
Comments: The species was described on the basis of two specimens. In the original description author did not mention the depository.
Notes
Published as part of Faisal, Mohammad & Singh, Sudhir, 2018, Type specimens of Chrysomelidae and Megalopodidae (Coleoptera) in the National Forest Insect Collection (NFIC), Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, India, pp. 509-529 in Zootaxa 4420 (4) on page 518, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4420.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1455409
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NFIC, FRI
- Event date
- 1930-08-04
- Verbatim event date
- 1930-08-04
- Scientific name authorship
- Bryant
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Genus
- Melixanthus
- Species
- coorgensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- paratype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Melixanthus coorgensis Bryant, 1941 sec. Faisal & Singh, 2018
References
- Bryant, G. E. (1941) New species of Indian Chrysomelidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 8, 11, 409 - 410.