Lemidia nitens ( Newman, 1841: 36 )

Leavengood, John M. & Garner, Beulah H., 2014, Nomenclatural notes on some checkered beetle (Coleoptera: Cleridae) types of the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH), Zootaxa 3760 (3), pp. 301-335 : 326

Lemidia nitens ( Newman, 1841: 36)

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Original combination. Hydnocera nitens

Types. Described from one specimen.

Series/ Type locality. Van Dieman’s Land.

HOLOTYPE (fixed by monotypy): Type [round, red-bordered label]. Hydnocera L. nitens Newm. [cursive], Van Diem[en’s] L[and] J. Walker, Ent. Club 44-12 ( BMNH; 1).

(Diem = Diemen's, Ln = Land, as in Van Diemen's Land. Also, the L after Hydnocera must represent Lemidia ).

Figures

FIGURES 48 – 53. Fig. 48) Allelidea brevipennis Pascoe, Lectotype (BMNH); Fig. 49) A. ctenostomoides Waterhouse, Paralectotype (BMNH); Fig. 50) A. viridis Blackburn, Lectotype (BMNH); Fig. 51) Blaesiophthalmus accinctus (Newman), Lectotype (BMNH); Fig. 52) B. variegatus (Blackburn), Lectotype (BMNH); Fig. 53) Lemidia nitens (Newman), Holotype (BMNH).