Lesteva (s.str.) torrentum Cameron, 1924

Shavrin, Alexey V., 2016, New taxonomic and faunistic data on the Himalayan Lesteva Latreille, 1797 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae), Zootaxa 4205 (2), pp. 143-150 : 148-149

Lesteva (s.str.) torrentum Cameron, 1924

Lesteva torrentum Cameron, 1924: 171

Lesteva torrentum: Cameron, 1930: 159 ; Lohse, 1982: 201, 204 Lesteva (s.str.) torrentum: Shavrin, 2015a: 536

Type material examined: Lectotype (here designated) of Lesteva torrentum Cameron, 1924 , ♂: ‘ Kemti Falls , | Mussoorie’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘Dr. Cameron. | 25. III. 1921 .’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘M.Cameron | Bequest. | B.M. 1955-147.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘Para- | type’ <round curator label with yellow margin, printed>, ‘LECTOTYPE | Lesteva (s.str.) | torrentum Cameron, 1924 | Shavrin A.V. des. 2016’ <red rectangular label, printed> (BMNH).

Paralectotypes of Lesteva torrentum Cameron, 1924 , 2 ♂: same labels as the lectotype (BMNH); 1 ♀: ‘ Type | H.T.’ <round curator label with red margin, printed>, ‘ Dhobi Ghat, | Mussoorie’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘Dr. Cameron | 14. IV. 22.’ <rectangular label, printed>,‘ Lesteva | torrentum | Cam.’ <rectangular label, handwritten>, ‘ M.Cameron | Bequest. | B.M. 1955-147.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Lesteva | torrentum Cameron | Shavrin A.V. det. 2016’ <rectangular label, printed> ( BMNH) ; 2 ♂: ‘ Arni Gad , | Mussoorie.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘Dr. Cameron | 13. IV. 22.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ M.Cameron | Bequest. | B.M. 1955-147.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘Para- | type’ <round curator label with yellow margin, printed> ( BMNH) ; 1 ♀: ‘Co- | type’ <round curator label with yellow margin, printed>, ‘ United Prov., | N. India [underlined by yellow] | B.M.1924-335.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Aglar River , | Mussoorie. | Dr. Cameron. | 16. IV. 22.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Lesteva | torrentum Cam . | Co- type’ <rectangular label, handwritten>, ‘Co- | type’ <round curator label with yellow margin, printed> (BritMus); 1 ♂ [The specimen was reglued on a new card, aedeagus is glued under the beetle; old card under the new card]: ‘ Kemti Falls, | Mussoorie’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘Dr. Cameron. 25. III. 1921.’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘COTYPE’ <pink rectangular curator label, handwritten>, ‘ Lesteva | torrentum | Cam . ’ <rectangular label, handwritten>, ‘ Lesteva | torrentum | Cameron’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ Coll. W. Chapman | in Coll. P. Griveau | MHNG—2007’ <rectangular label, printed>, ‘ torrentum | Cam.’ <rectangular label with yellow margins, handwritten>, ‘ Lesteva | torrentum Cameron | Shavrin A.V. det. 2016’ <rectangular label, printed> ( MHNG). All paralectotypes with my additional label: ‘ PARALECTOTYPE | Lesteva (s.str.) | torrentum Cameron, 1924 | Shavrin A.V. des. 2016’ <red rectangular label, printed>.

Remarks. The species was described from an unspecified number of syntypes from ‘Mussorie District […]’ ( Cameron 1924). Based on the study of non-type material, Shavrin (2015a) redescibed it. Lohse (1982) studied material from BMNH: ‘[…] holotype from Mussoorie, Dhobi Ghat, 14.v.1922 […] 9 paratypes and other specimens from Mussoorie, West Almora and Kashmir’. Recently I had an opportunity to study the type material in BMNH: 1 ♀ (from Dhobi Ghat, Mussoorie) labeled by curator as ‘ Type | H.T.’, 3 ♂ and 2 ♀ labeled as paratypes (from Kemti Falls and Arni Gad, Mussoorie) and 1 ♀ (from Aglar River, Mussoorie) labeled as cotype (for details see above). I designated the lectotype and paralectotypes for L. torrentum in order to fix the identity of the name.