Hoplasoma celebense Jacoby, 1886

Bezděk, Jan, 2008, A review of the genus Hoplasoma (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia, with the description of H. bosi sp. nov., Zootaxa 1941 (1), pp. 55-66 : 60-61

Hoplasoma celebense Jacoby, 1886

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Hoplasoma celebensis Jacoby, 1886: 81 (original description); Wilcox, 1973: 479 (catalogue); Medvedev 2000: 125 (key)

Hoplosoma celebensis: Baly, 1889: 308 (= ventralis Baly, 1886 )

Hoplasoma celebensis: Weise 1924: 18 (catalogue); Kimoto 1990: 54 (catalogue)

Hoplasoma celebensis ab. butonensis Weise, 1922: 69 (unavailable name); Weise 1924: 18 (catalogue).

Type locality. Hoplasoma celebensis : “ Celebes, Kandari” [Sulawesi Tenggara prov., Kendari , 3°58´S 122°34´E] .

Type material. Lectotype ♂ ( MSNG), designated here, labelled: „ Celebes [p] / Kandari III. 74 [h] / O. Beccari [w, p] // Typus [w, red letters, p] // celebensis / Jac. [w, h] // Hoplasoma / celebensis Jac. [blue label, h] // SYNTYPUS [p] / Hoplasoma / celebensis / Jacoby, 1886 [pink label, h] // Museo Civico / di Genova [w, p]“. Paralectotypes: 3 ♀♀ ( MSNG), labelled: „ Celebes [p] / Kandari III. 74 [h] / O. Beccari [w, p] // SYNTY- PUS [p] / Hoplasoma / celebensis / Jacoby, 1886 [pink label, h] // Museo Civico / di Genova [w, p]“; 1 ♂ ( MCZ), labelled: „ Celebes [p] / Kandari III. 74 [h] / O. Beccari [w, p] // celebensis / Jac. / ( Hoplasoma ) [blue label, h] // 1st Jacoby / Coll. [w, p] // Type [p] / 17586 [red label, h] // Jan.–Jul. 2004 / MCZ Image / Database [w, p] // celebensis Jac [grey label, h]“; 2 ♀♀ ( MCZ), labelled: „ Celebes [p] / Kandari III. 74 [h] / O. Beccari [w, p] // 1st Jacoby / Coll. [w, p]“; 1 ♀ ( BMNH), labelled: „ Celebes [p] / Kandari VII. 74 [h] / O. Beccari [w, p] // H. / celebensis / Jac [w, h] // Jacoby Coll. / 1909–28a. [w, p] // celebensis Jac [grey label, h]“. The specimens are provided with one red label: „ LECTOTYPUS [or PARALECTOTYPUS, resp.], / Hoplasoma celebensis / Jacoby, 1886, / des. J. Bezdĕk 2007 “.

Additional material studied. 7 specimens — INDONESIA: SULAWESI : SULAWESI TENGGARA PROV.: 1 ♂ 1 ♀, Kendari [3°58´S 122°34´E] ( ZMHB) ; 2 ♂♂, Buton Isl. [5°00´S 122°96´E] ( ZMHB) ; 1 ♂ 1 ♀, Kolaka [4°2´S 121°35´E], Drs. Sarasin leg. ( SMTD) ; PROVINCE?: 1 ♀, Central Sulawesi, v. 1980, M. J. D. Brendell leg. ( BMNH) .

Distribution. So far known only from Sulawesi Archipelago, exactly known localities are placed in Sulawesi Tenggara province.

Comments. Described from unknown number of specimens. In the institutions housing the parts of Jacoby´s collection I have found 8 syntypes altogether. One male from MSNG is designated as lectotype here.

Jacoby (1886) mentioned that only hind legs are black. However, the examination of the type series proved that also middle legs are black (but more or less delighted by the influence of light in different specimens). Weise (1922) described ab. butonensis based on just one female with the dark middle legs. This female was found in NHRS and bears following labels: „Jns. Buton [w, p] // celebensis / Jac. ab. / butonensis / m. [w, h] // NRM Sthlm / Loan 1561/08 [grey label, p]“. Because described as an aberration H. celebensis ab. butonensis is treated as an unavailable name. Its coloration fully agrees with all other specimens of H. celebense thus ab. butonensis is conspecific with H. celebense , what is supported also by the dissection of males from Buton Isl. found in ZMHB.

Figures

FIGURES 2–7. Habitus of males of Hoplasoma. 2—H. apicale (lectotype); 3—H. celebense; 4—H. paradoxum (holotype); 5—H. rostripenne; 6—H. sulawesianum (holotype); 7—H. bosi sp. nov. (holotype).

FIGURES 8–13. Aedeagus of Hoplasoma (dorsal view at left, lateral view at right). 8—H. apicale; 9—H. celebense; 10—H. paradoxum; 11—H. rostripenne; 12—H. sulawesianum; 13—H. bosi sp. nov. Scale bar 1 mm.

FIGURES 14–24. Details of Hoplasoma. 14–19: male abdomen; 20–23, 25: H. bosi sp. nov.; 24: H. sulawesianum. 14—H. apicale; 15—H. celebense; 16—H. paradoxum; 17—H. rostripenne; 18—H. sulawesianum; 19—H. bosi sp. nov.; 20—male hind tarsus; 21— male middle tarsus; 22— male fore tarsus; 23—spermatheca; 24–25—hind tibia (lateral view). Scale bar 1 mm for Figs. 14–22 and 24–25; 2 mm for Fig. 23.