Lepidiota minuta Moser, 1913

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Lepidiota minuta Moser, 1913

Lepidiota minuta Moser, 1913: 49 .

Lectotype (designated by Britton 1978: 70) male ( Fig. 29 ): Queensland Cooktown [15.47°S, 145.25°E] (black bordered, typeset and handwritten) | Lepidiota minuta Type ♂ Mos. (handwritten) | LECTO-TYPE (circular darkblue ringed, typeset) | LECTOTYPE Lepidiota minuta Moser selected by E.B. Britton det. 1964 (handwritten and typeset) | my lectotype label; in ZMB .

Paralectotype female ( Fig. 30 ): Queensland Cooktown (black bordered, typeset and handwritten) | Coll. Brenske (black bordered, typeset) | Lepidiota minuta Type ♀ Mos (handwritten) | my paralectotype label; in ZMB .

Moser (1913) did not define the type series, seeing an unknown number of specimens (vide Articles 73.1.2, 72.1.1) but he gave a range of body lengths and noted the different lengths of the antennal clubs of males and females. Britton (1978) located two specimens in ZMB from type locality of Cooktown and designated the male with the aedeagus dissected and mounted the lectotype. He did not specifically designate the second specimen (gender not stated) as a paralectotype. Houston & Weir (1992) listed a male paralectotype in ZMB, but I presume that they mistakenly thought that the second specimen seen by Britton (1978) was a male. There are three additional specimens from Cooktown in ZMB, but these were not labelled at types by Moser.

Figures

FIGURES 29–37. 29–30. Lepidiota minuta Moser, 1913, labels on types. 29, lectotype male; 30, paralectotype female. 31, Lepidiota oblonga Brenske, 1900, labels on lectotype; 32, Lepidiota podicalis Moser, 1913, labels on lectotype. 33, Lepidiota sororia Moser, 1913, labels on lectotype; 34, Lepidiota parva Moser, 1913 (junior synonym of Lepidiota rothei Blackburn, 1888), labels on lectotype. 35–36. Lepidiota rugicollis Moser, 1913 (junior synonym of Lepidiota rubrior Blackburn, 1890), labels on specimens. 35, lectotype male; 36, non-type specimen in ZMB. 37. Holophylla furfuracea Burmeister, 1855 (now Pseudholophylla furfuracea), label on lectotype. Figs. 29–36 courtesy of Museum für Naturkunde. Fig. 37 courtesy of Karla Schneider.