Taumacera variceps (Laboissière 1933)

(Figs 28, 41, 54, 62, 94)

Platyxanthoides variceps Laboissière, 1933: 71 (original description)

Type material examined. SYNTYPES: 3 ♂♂ (on the same pin), ‘Hoa-Binh / de Cooman [w, h] // TYPE [red letters, p] / ♂ [w, h] // Platyxanthoides / variceps m.[h] / V.Laboissière – Dét.[w, p] // Le Moult Vend./ via Reinbek / Eing Nr. 1, 1957 [white w, p]’ (ZMUH); 1 ♂, ‘ Tonkin / Lac Tho / HOA BINH / A. de Cooman [w, p] // Platyxanthoides / variceps m / paratype ♂ [h] / V. LABOISSIÈRE - DÉT. [w, p] // Para- / type [orange, p] // cf.Ann. Soc. Ent. / Fr., [p] CII, 1933 / p. 71-72, fig. 42 [w, h] // R. Mus. Hist.Nat. / Belg. I. G. 12.752 [w, p]’ (ISNB); 1 ♂, ‘Co- / type [white round label with yellow collar, p] // Tonkin. / A. de Cooman. [w, p] // Pres. by / Imp. Bur. Ent. / Brit.Mus. / 1929-178. [w, p] // Platyxanthoides / variceps / m [h] / V. Laboissière -- Dét.[w, p]’ (BMNH); 1♀, ‘Co- / type[white round label with yellow collar, p] // Tonkin. / A. de Cooman. [w, p] // Hoa Binh / -Tonkin- / de Cooman [w, h] // Pres. by / Imp. Bur. Ent. / Brit. Mus. / 1929-178. [w, p] // COTYPE [red letters, p] / ♂ ♀ [w, h]’ (BMNH).

Additional material examined. THAILAND: MAE HONG SON PROV.: Kiwlom pass near Soppong, 1400 m, 23.vi.–2.vii.2002, 1♂, R.& H.Fouqué leg. (JBCB). VIETNAM: HOA BINH PROV.: Hoa-Binh, viii.1918, 1 ♂, R. V.de Salvaza leg.(BMNH). NINH BINH PROV.: Cuc-Phong, 25.v.1986, 1♂, J. Macek leg. (NMPC). MYANMAR: TENASSERIM: Thagatà, iv.1887, 1♂, Fea leg.(MSNG, paralectotype of Dorydea indica). LAOS: XIENG KHOUANG PROV.: Xieng Khouang, i.1920, 1 ♂, R. Vitalis de Salvaza leg. (NMPC).