Ectinogonia peñai Cobos, 1954:66

Pineda, Cristian & París, Mercedes, 2022, Types of species of Ectinogonia (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) described by Antonio Cobos Sánchez deposited in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Zootaxa 5175 (4), pp. 478-486 : 483-485

Ectinogonia peñai Cobos, 1954:66

[ Figures 43–48 ]

Syntype: “ ♂ // El Quisco Perú. 24-II-1950 L. E. Peña coll. // PARATYPUS A. COBOS // Ectinogonia (s. str) peñai nov. sp. A. Cobos det. 1.953 // EX COLECCION Dr. A. Cobos // Ectinogonia melichari ssp. peñai mihi A. Cobos det. 1970. // Sintipo MNCN Tipos N° 7946 // MNCN _Ent 275903”

Syntype: “ El Quisco Peru 24-II-1950 L. E. Peña coll. // EX COLECCION Dr. A. Cobos // PARATYPUS A. COBOS // Sintipo MNCN Tipos N° 7946 // MNCN _Ent 275904”

Current status: Ectinogonia (Kheiliella) melichari penai Cobos, 1954 ( Bellamy, 2008; Giraldo-Mendoza 2019).

Comments: The type specimens of Ectinogonia penai are syntypes because a holotype was not designated. The type locality and data of the type series of this taxon is “El Cuzco ( Perú), 24-II-1950. L. E. Peña coll.”. Peña (1974: 263) indicates that the holotype and one homotopotype are deposited in his own collection (Luis E. Peña G. collection), which is now housed in the Field Museum of Natural History, Illinois, USA (FMNH). The syntype labelled as holotype was recently found at the FMNH and illustrated by Pineda (2022). The FMNH specimen bears a holotype label and a handwritten label by A. Cobos, reading: “ Ectinogonia (s. str.) peñai nov. sp. A. Cobos det. 1.953”. The original description of this taxon clearly established that A. Cobos received two specimens from his colleague Luis E. Peña when he was finishing his Ectinogonia review, which are probably the ones deposited in the MNCN-CSIC collection ( Fig. 43–48 ). It is possible that A. Cobos labeled the two specimens that he received from Luis E. Peña as paratypes, and one specimen in Peña's collection was labeled as the holotype of this taxon as stated by Peña (1974: 263), although we do not know if it was seen by A. Cobos despite its identification label.

Figures

FIGURES 37–51. Type specimens of Ectinogonia spp. 37–39) Syntype of Ectinogonia chalyboeiventris wagenknechti Cobos, 1954: Dorsal and lateral view, and labels. 40–42) ¿Syntype? of Ectinogonia minor Olave, 1936: Dorsal and lateral view, and labels. 43–48) Syntype of Ectinogonia penai Cobos, 1954: Dorsal and lateral view, and labels. Scale bars: 5 mm. 49–51) Nontype specimen of Ectinogonia buqueti speciosa var. obscuripennis Cobos, 1954: Dorsal and lateral view, and labels. Scale bars: 1 mm.