versicolor (Jalloides) Distant 1911b: 350 . [Fig. 228]

Original data: “ Hab. Queensland; Kuranda (F. P. Dodd, Brit. Mus.).” [syntype (s)]

LECTOTYPE ♀ (designated by Thomas 1994: 166): purple-margined lectotype disc; red-margined type disc; “ Queensland. F. P. Dodd. 1907–54.”; “ Kuranda F. P. Dodd. Mch 04”; “ Jalloides versicolor type Dist. [Distant’s handwriting]”; “NHMUK 010592292”. Doubled mounted specimen; second to fifth right antennomeres; and fourth and fifth left antennomeres missing (Fig. 228).

Current status: Australojalla versicolor (Distant, 1911) (see Thomas 1994: 166).

Note: From Distant’s original description, we do not know whether Distant had one or more specimens, nor the sex. We have found only one specimen in the collection, a female, but cannot be sure it was the only one Distant had. Thomas (1994: 166) stated: “Material examined: Holotype female BM(NH).” We suspect he may have meant the specimen marked as type and this is the only specimen of the species in the collection (as Thomas noted: “Unfortunately, specimens seem quite rare.”), we therefore accept Thomas’s mention of the “ Holotype female” as a valid fixation of lectotype by inference of the “ holotype ” (ICZN 1999: Art. 74.6).