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Contacyphon pictulus

Description

Contacyphon pictulus (Sharp, 1878)

(Fig. 11F)

Cyphon pictulus Sharp 1878: 55. Broun 1880: 322 (reprinted excerpt of Sharp 1878). Pic 1914: 34 (catalogue). Macfarlane et al. 2011: 420 (catalogue). Contacyphon pictulus: Zwick et al. 2013: 345.

Type locality. Otago.

Broun number: 585.

Type material examined. 1 ex. Holotype (NHM): card-mounted, genitalia mounted on glass slide pinned together with the specimen, “ Cyphon pictulus \ Type D. S.” [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand], “C. pic- \ tulus” [handwritten on genitalia slide], “Holo- \ type ” [round label with red border], “ Type \ H. T.” [round label with red border], “ Otago, [red underline] \ New Zeal. \ (Hutton)”, “ Otago Hutton” [handwritten], “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.”, “ Holotype \ Cyphon pictulus \ Sharp \ det. T. Nyholm 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand].

Remarks. A single specimen collected by Hutton at Otago was sent to Sharp (Sharp 1878).

Notes

Published as part of Kiałka, Agata & Ruta, Rafał, 2017, An illustrated catalogue of the New Zealand marsh beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae), pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 4366 (1) on page 44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4366.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1125265

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Sharp
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scirtidae
Genus
Contacyphon
Species
pictulus
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Contacyphon pictulus (Sharp, 1878) sec. Kiałka & Ruta, 2017