Hispellinus chinensis Gressitt, 1950

Sekerka, Lukáš, Jia, Fenglong, Pang, Hong & Borowiec, Lech, 2016, Cassidinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) types deposited at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, Zootaxa 4084 (1), pp. 50-78 : 70

Hispellinus chinensis Gressitt, 1950

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Hispellinus chinensis Gressitt, 1950: 96 .

Monochirus callicanthus: Gressitt, 1939a: 169 (ex parte misidentification).

Type locality. China, Guangdong prov., Lianzhou Co., Fongtongping [this locality is unknown to us].

Original type series. Holotype ( LMNH), and two paratypes, one from Hunan ( CAS) and the one from Sichuan ( MCZ).

Type material examined. Holotype, pinned: ‘Kwangtung,S. China | Fong Tong Ping, Hoh | Kai Hon, Linhsien | (Dist.) July4 –5,1934 | F. K. To [w, p, cb] || HOLOTYPE | MONOCHIRUS [hw] | CHIENSIS [hw] | J.L.Gressitt [r, p + hw by Gressitt, cb] || 83 [w, t, cb] || MONOCHIRUS | CHINENSIS | GRESSITT [w, hw by Gressitt, cb] || [vernacular name in Chinese, hw] | Hispellinus [hw] | chinensis Gressitt [hw] | det. Li-Zhong Hua [in Chinese, p] 1982 [hw] [w, p, cb] || En-289765 | [Data Matrix barcode] SYS [w. p, cb]’.

Current status. Valid species.

Remarks. Gressitt (1939) published Hispellinus callicanthus (Bates, 1866) as new for China. Later on, Gressitt (1950) found that several specimens actually belong to a new species he named H. chinensis .

Figures

FIGURES 26 – 31. 26. Dactylispa planispina Gressitt, 1950 (holotype, 7.1 mm); 27. D. setifera zeae Chen & Tʼan unpublished manuscript name (5.7 mm); 28. D. uhmanni Gressitt, 1950 (holotype, 4.0 mm); 29. Hispellinus chinensis Gressitt, 1950 (holotype, 4.5 mm); 30. Monohispa tuberculata (Gressitt, 1950) (holotype, 6.5 mm); 31. Platypria yunnana Gressitt, 1939 (holotype, 6.2 mm).