Telephoroides occidentalis Motschulsky, 1854b

Lima, William, Moseyko, Alexey G. & Silveira, Luiz Felipe Lima Da, 2024, New world lampyrid types at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, European Journal of Taxonomy 943, pp. 24-58 : 53

Telephoroides occidentalis Motschulsky, 1854b

Figs 104–106

Telephoroides occidentalis Motschulsky, 1854b: 60 .

Type material examined

Lectotype (designated here)

COUNTRY UNKNOWN (original description lists French Guyana and Brazil) • ♀; “occidenta-,, lis,, Oliv.” // “ Photuris ,, fulvipes,, Blanch.” [E. Olivier handwriting]// “typ”; ZIN.

Preservation status

Well-preserved, lacking one elytron.

Remarks

Motschulsky listed “Ol.” as the provider of specimens for this species, perhaps referring to the entomologist G. Olivier. Kazantsev & Nikitsky (2008) found a female syntype at ZMMU. Here, we found another female syntype from ZIN, which we designate as a lectotype. The ZIN syntype lacks a locality label, but the original description listed French Guiana and Brazil as type localities, which match the known distribution of the species ( Souto et al. 2019).

Current status

Photuris occidentalis ( Motschulsky, 1854b) is a junior synonym of Photuris femoralis Curtis, 1839 (senior synonym). Other junior synonyms of the latter are Photuris fulvipes (Blanchard, 1845) , Photuris fruticola ( Motschulsky, 1854b) , Photuris pallida ( Motschulsky, 1854b) , and Photuris trivialis Boheman, 1858 .

Figures

Figs 104–109. 104–106. Telephoroides occidentalis Motschulsky, 1854b, lectotype, ♀. 104. Habitus, dorsal view. 105. Habitus, ventral view. 106. Labels. 107–109. Telephoroides pallida Motschulsky, 1854b, paralectotype, ♂. 107. Habitus, dorsal view. 108. Habitus, ventral view. 109. Labels.