Xylographus subsinuatus
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Ciidae
Genus: Xylographus
Name
Xylographus subsinuatus Pic, 1916 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Xylographus subsinuatus Pic 1916: 4. Type-locality: Madagascar.
- Xylographus rufescens Pic 1921[1]: 7. syn. n. Type-locality: Bourbon Island (Reunion).
Type series
MADAGASCAR: male lectotype (MNHN), here designated, labeled: “MADAGASCAR Plantations du Sambirano COLLECTION LE MOULT [printed] \ [red label] Coll. C [handwritten] \ Type [handwritten] \ subsinuatus Pic [handwritten] \ [red label] LECTOTYPE Xylographus subsinuatus Pic [handwritten]”; 6 males, 3 females, 17 specimens of undetermined gender, all paralectotypes (MNHN), labeled: “MADAGASCAR Plantations du Sambirano COLLECTION LE MOULT [printed] \ [red label] Coll. C [handwritten] \ [yellow label] PARALECTOTYPE Xylographus subsinuatus Pic [handwritten]”.
Type material of the junior synonym
REUNION: male lectotype (MNHN) of Xylographus rufescens Pic 1921[1], here designated, labeled: “Ile Bourbon n. sp. [handwritten] \ type [handwritten] \ rufescens Pic [handwritten] \ [red label] LECTOTYPE Xylographus rufescens Pic [handwritten]”.
Remarks
We observed that the lectotype of Xylographus rufescens is a small teneral male of Xylographus subsinuatus. We dissected the types and compared the sclerites of abdominal terminalia, which are identical.
Taxon Treatment
- Sandoval-Gómez, V; Lopes-Andrade, C; Lawrence, J; 2014: Lectotype designations and nomenclatural changes in Xylographus Mellié (Coleoptera, Ciidae) ZooKeys, 374: 23-43. doi