Xylographus subsinuatus Pic, 1916

Sandoval-Gomez, Vivian Eliana, Lopes-Andrade, Cristiano & Lawrence, John F., 2014, Lectotype designations and nomenclatural changes in Xylographus Mellie (Coleoptera, Ciidae), ZooKeys 374, pp. 23-43 : 35

Xylographus subsinuatus Pic, 1916

Xylographus subsinuatus Pic 1916: 4. Type-locality: Madagascar.

Xylographus rufescens Pic 1921: 7. syn. n. Type-locality: Bourbon Island (Reunion).

Type series.

MADAGASCAR: male lectotype (MNHN), here designated, labeled: "MADAGASCAR Plantations du Sambirano COLLECTION LE MOULT [printed] \ [red label] Coll. C [handwritten] \ Type [handwritten] \ subsinuatus Pic [handwritten] \ [red label] LECTOTYPE Xylographus subsinuatus Pic [handwritten]"; 6 males, 3 females, 17 specimens of undetermined gender, all paralectotypes (MNHN), labeled: "MADAGASCAR Plantations du Sambirano COLLECTION LE MOULT [printed] \ [red label] Coll. C [handwritten] \ [yellow label] PARALECTOTYPE Xylographus subsinuatus Pic [handwritten]".

Type material of the junior synonym.

REUNION: male lectotype (MNHN) of Xylographus rufescens Pic 1921, here designated, labeled: "Ile Bourbon n. sp. [handwritten] \ type [handwritten] \ rufescens Pic [handwritten] \ [red label] LECTOTYPE Xylographus rufescens Pic [handwritten]".

Remarks.

We observed that the lectotype of Xylographus rufescens is a small teneral male of Xylographus subsinuatus . We dissected the types and compared the sclerites of abdominal terminalia, which are identical.