Trogolaphysa nigromaculata pallida (Delamare Debouteville in Delamare Debouteville & Pauliani, 1952)

Nguyen, Minh & Soto-Adames, Felipe N., 2018, Annotated checklist of Afrotropical Trogolaphysa Mills, 1938 (Hexapoda: Collembola: Paronellidae) and description of a new species from Madagascar, Zoosystema 40 (10), pp. 179-196 : 190

Trogolaphysa nigromaculata pallida (Delamare Debouteville in Delamare Debouteville & Pauliani, 1952) n. comb

Paronella nigromaculata pallida Delamare Debouteville in Delamare Debouteville & Pauliani, 1952: 77 (Le Banco, Ivory Coast).

Paronella nigromaculata pallida Delamare Debouteville, 1951: 209 ; nomen nudum.

Dicranocentruga nigromaculata pallida – Mitra 2002c: 114.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Le Banco, Ivory Coast.

DISTRIBUTION. — Ivory Coast.

REMARKS

Delamare Debouteville (1951b) first mentions this taxon as a subspecies of P. nigromaculata , but only as a name in a table (1951b: 209). Since no description is attached to this name, P. nigromaculata pallida Delamare Debouteville, 1951b is a nomen nudum. Delamare Debouteville again used the combination P. nigromaculata pallida in 1952, and this time states that the taxon is characterized by very sparse punctate blue pigment but with the same morphological characters as the nominal subspecies.

Paronella n. pallida was described on the same page as P. penicillata pallida (see below). If these two taxa turn out to be good species one of them will require a new epithet.