Arthrobrachus (Heteracrius) decoratus Kirsch, 1865

Hájek, Jiří & Švihla, Vladimír, 2012, Catalogue of the type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (2), pp. 603-654 : 610-611

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5332821
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5411120
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scientific name	Arthrobrachus (Heteracrius) decoratus Kirsch, 1865
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Arthrobrachus (Heteracrius) decoratus Kirsch, 1865: 92 .

The holotype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. Nickerl):

HOLOTYPE (J): ‘Kirsch / typ. [hw] // Heteracrius / decoratus. / Kirsch Bogota [hw, green label, black margin] // Syn- / typus [p, red label, black margin] // Astylus J / (Heteracrius) / decoratus KIRSCH [hw] / K. Majer det. [p] 1980 [hw]’.

Current status. Astylus (Heteracrius) decoratus ( Kirsch, 1865) , see PIC (1920).

Remark. KIRSCH (1865) mentions a single female in the original description. However, no other type specimen was found in the Senckenberg Museum für Tierkunde, Dresden, Germany (O. Jäger, pers. comm. 2012), where the collection of Kirsch is housed. Therefore we suggest to consider our specimen as the holotype, in which the author wrongly determined its sex.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Melyridae
Genus	Arthrobrachus