Quadrideres robynsi Koch, 1956

Kamiński, Marcin Jan, 2015, A taxonomic revision of the Quadrideres simplicipes species-group (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pedinini), including description of a new species from Tanzania, Zootaxa 3986 (2), pp. 217-226 : 223-224

Quadrideres robynsi Koch, 1956

Quadrideres robynsi Koch, 1956: 207 .— Iwan 2002a: 96, 2002b: 296; Kamiński 2013a: 86.

Studied material. During its description Koch (1956) did not selected a holotype specimen. Eight individuals from the type series were available. Although, one of the studied syntypes already had a label indicating a holotype status, which according to the rules of the ICZN (1999) is insufficient for designation a type specimen. Additionally, two of studied specimens, excluded by Koch (1956) from the type series, had a paratypes labels. To fix the taxonomic status of this species a lectotype designation is needed to fix the taxonomic status of the species. Lectotype, male ( MRAC): “Musée du Congo / [unreadable] Uvira / [unreadable] / 3-VII-1912 / Dr. Stappers”, “Allo / type. robynsi / Koch”, “ Holotypus ”. Paralectotypes, female ( MRAC): “Musée du Congo / [unreadable] Uvira / [unreadable] / 3-VII-1912 / Dr. Stappers”, “Allo / type. robynsi / Koch”, “Allotypus”, “1086”; female ( MRAC): “Musée du Congo / [unreadable] Uvira / [unreadable] / 3-VII-1912 / Dr. Stappers”, “Para / type. robynsi / Koch”, “ Paratype ”, “1086”.

Other studied material. Female ( MRAC): Musée du Congo / Urundi: Kitega / - I-1935 / P. Lefèvre”, “ Paratypus ”; female ( MRAC): “Musée du Congo / Kibenga Baraka / -VII_1918 / R. Mayne ”, “ Paratypus ”; female ( MRAC): “Musée du Congo / Nioka / -1934 / P. Lefèvre”, “ Paratypus ”; female ( MRAC): “Coll. Mus. Congo / Ruanda: Kisenyi / 1600 m. 15/II-53 / P. Basilewsky”, “ Paratypus ”; female ( MRAC): “Coll. Mus Congo / Ruanda: Mt. Mbude, S. du / Luhondo, 2000m. / P. Basilewsky 29-I-53 ”, “ Quadrideres / robynsi / Koch / C. Koch det. 1956”; male ( MRAC): “Coll. Mus. Tervuren / Kivu: Uvira / V.1962 / Dr R. Kiss”; 6 males and 3 females ( MRAC): “Coll. Mus. Tervuren / Kivu: Uvira / V.1962 / Dr R. Kiss”; 11 males and 6 females ( MRAC): “Coll. Mus. Tervuren / Burundi: plane de la / Ruzizi / N`Dani S. I/ III.1966 ”; 14 males and 3 females ( MRAC): same data except the date— 17.II.1966; 4 males ( MRAC): same data except the date—IV.1966; 2 males and female ( MRAC): “Coll. Mus. Tervuren / Burundi: plane de la Ruzizi / ( Burundi) I/ III.1968 / S. N`Dani”; male ( MRAC): “Coll. Mus.

Tervuren / Ruanda: Kigali / XI.1961 / Dr R. Kiss.”; female ( MRAC): “Coll. Mus. Tervuren / Kivu: Terr. Uvira / Kasanga / V.1962 / Dr R. Kiss”; female ( MRAC): “Coll. Mus. Tervuren / Kivu: Terr. Uvira Kalima- / benge à Kambekulu V.1962 / Dr R. Kiss”; female ( MRAC): “I.R.S.A.C. - Mus. Congo / Kivu: Uvira / XI-1949 / N. Lelup”; female ( MRAC): “I.R.S.A.C.—Mus. Congo / Kivu: Terr. Uvira / 800m XII-1958 / N. Lelup”, “Récolté dans / bananeraie”, “ Quadrideres / sp.? / P. Ardoin det. 1973”; male ( MRAC): “I.R.S.A.C. - Mus. Congo / Kivu: Ile de M`Boko (lac / Tanganika) terr. Fizi / N. Lelup II-1957 ”, “Récolté / dans / l`humus”; female ( MNHN): “Museum Paris / Congo Belge / Kivou Mokoto / Guy Babault 1927”; male and 2 female ( RBINS): “Katana”, “R.I.Sc.N.B. I.G. / Coll. Roelofs”; 2 females ( MNHN): “ Congo Belge / Rég. Lac Kivu / Uvira”, “Museum Paris / 1930 / Coll. G. Babault”; female ( MNHN): “ Congo Belge / Kivou / Kadjudju”, “Museum Paris / 1930 / Coll. G. Babault”.

Morphological data. Because the description of this species made by Koch (1956) is clear and consistent with the data obtained in this study the morphology of this species was not redescribed.

Distribution. This species has been collected in the following ecoregions of the East Africa ( Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo): Albertine Rift montane forests, Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands and Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic ( Fig. 12, 13 ).

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FIGURES 12 – 13. Distribution of the Quadrideres s implicipes species-group illustrated using digital elevation model (12) and Afrotropical ecoregions and the distribution of the Quadrideres simplicipes species-group (13 A, B). On Fig. 13 the areas of particular ecoregions were distinguished by colors. Their names are provided in black boxes. Fig. 13 B presents a close-up of the frame marked on Fig. 13 A.