Anellobia chrysoptera halmaturina Mathews

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Anellobia chrysoptera halmaturina Mathews

Anellobia chrysoptera halmaturina Mathews, 1912d: 101 (Kangaroo Island).

Now Anthochaera chrysoptera halmaturina (Mathews, 1912) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 446, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 297–298, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 620–621.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696470 , female, collected on Kangaroo Lagoon , 35.49S, 137.00E ( USBGN, 1957), center of Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia, on 14 April 1912, by S.A. White (no. 690). From the Mathews Collection (no. 12794) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range as ‘‘Kangaroo Island.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to White’s original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a ‘‘Figured’’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1925a: pl. 551, lower fig., opp. p. 78, text p. 80), where it is confirmed as the type of halmaturina. Paratype in AMNH: AMNH 696469 (Mathews no. 12795), female, collected on Kangaroo Lagoon, Kangaroo Island, on 14 April 1912, by S.A. White (no. 762).