Podocerus laevis ( Haswell, 1885 )

Kilgallen, Niamh M., 2009, Podoceridae *, Zootaxa 2260 (1), pp. 841-860 : 853

Podocerus laevis ( Haswell, 1885)

Dexiocerella laevis Haswell, 1885: 111 , pl. 18 figs 10–12.

Podocerus laevis . — Stebbing, 1906: 704. — Stebbing, 1910: 651. — Sheard, 1937: 28.

Not Platophium laeve Walker, 1904: 295 , pl. 7, fig. 51 (= Podocerus walkeri Rabindranath, 1972 ).

Not Podocerus laevis . — Sivaprakasam 1969: 381, fig. 4e–f (= Podocerus walkeri Rabindranath, 1972 ).

Material examined. Not collected in the current survey.

Type locality. Long Island (previously Port Molle), Whitsunday Islands, Queensland, Australia .

Remarks. Haswell’s (1885) original description and illustrations of this species are extremely sketchy, thus making it hard to discern from other species in the genus. The type material of P. laevis is lost ( Springthorpe & Lowry 1994) and it has not been collected by any subsequent author since its original description (the records of Stebbing (1906, 1910) and Sheard (1937) given in the synonymy section above are based on that of Haswell, that is, these authors never actually examined any material of P. laevis ). At this point, it must be considered as an unidentifiable species.