MESOPORINI Cameron 1959

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MESOPORINI Cameron 1959

Paraconosoma Bernhauer 1941

Paraconosoma Bernhauer 1941: 35 . Type species: Paraconosoma naviculare Bernhauer, 1941 , by monotypy. Note: revision, key to species, Steel (1960); tribal placement, Newton (1985). Notes: Paraconosoma is an isolated genus tentatively placed in the tribe Mesoporini , with a basal position in Aleocharinae based on larval and adult characters (Ashe 2005). It is endemic to New Zealand, with two valid species.

Paraconosoma naviculare Bernhauer 1941

Paraconosoma naviculare Bernhauer 1941: 36 . Type locality: Hope. Type depository: BMNH LT; FMNH 1PLT (designated below). Note: redescription, distribution, Steel (1960). Distribution: New Zealand (AK; BR,MB,NN,SD,WD).

Remarks. Bernhauer did not indicate the number of specimens in the Broun collection he studied for naming this

species. In order to stabilize this name a lectotype and 1 paralectotype are here designated for the two specimens

we recognized as syntypes of Paraconosoma naviculare .

Type material examined. Lectotype ( BMNH): card-mounted (genitalia in microvial, remaining terminalia

separated on same card), “ Type [round label with red border] // Hope – 23.12.14. [in Broun’s hand] // / New

Zealand. [red underline] Broun Coll. Brit. Mus. 1922-482. // Paraconosoma n. gen. naviculare Brh M. Bernhauer

det. Type [in Bernhauer’s hand, partly printed]”. Paralectotype: 1 ( FMNH), card-mounted (body split in half),

“Hope 23.12.1914 [in Bernhauer’s hand] // New Zealand Broun Coll Brit. Mus. 1922 [in Bernhauer’s hand] //

Paraconosoma n. gen. naviculare Brh. Type [in Bernhauer’s hand]. Bernhauer det. // BRIT. MUS. DON. ARROW.

// naviculare Bernh. Typus Paraconosoma [in Bernhauer’s hand, red label] // Chicago NHMus M.Bernhauer

Collection // SYNTYPE teste D. J. Clarke2014 GDI Imaging Project [violet label] // Photographed Kelsey Keaton

2014 Emu Catalog [blue label] // FMNHINS 2819184 FIELD MUSEUM [barcode label]”.

Paraconosoma polita Steel 1960

Paraconosoma polita Steel 1960: 44 (attributed to Broun in litt. (in Acarellus )). Type locality: New Zealand: North Island, Pirongia, Auckland District. Type depository: BMNH HT, 4PT; NZAC 1PT. Distribution: New Zealand (AK,BP,ND,TO,WO; BR).

Remarks. The holotype and 4 paratypes were located in the Broun Collection, but we did not find the paratype in the NZAC indicated by Steel (1960).