Xylographus madagascariensis Mellie , 1849

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 : 31-32

Xylographus madagascariensis Mellie, 1849

Xylographus madagascariensis Mellié 1849: 224, pl. 9, fig. 18. Type-locality: Madagascar.

Xylographus eichelbaumi Reitter 1908: 119. ssyn. n. Type-locality: Amani, Tanzania.

Xylographus rufipennis Pic 1934: 14. syn. n. Type-locality: Gura, Kenya.

Xylographus seychellensis Scott 1926: 10. syn. n. Type-locality: Mahe, Seychelles.

Xylographus tarsalis Fåhraeus 1871: 670. syn. n. Type-locality: Caffraria (Eastern Cape of South Africa).

Type series.

MADAGASCAR: male lectotype (MNHN), here designated, labeled: " Madagascariensis Dup. Madagascar.[handwritten] \ Ex-Musæo Mniszech [printed] \ [red label] LECTOTYPE Xylographus madagascariensis Mellié [handwritten]".

Type material of junior synonyms.

KENYA: female lectotype (NHM) of Xylographus rufipennis Pic, 1934, here designated, labeled: "[red disc]Type [printed] \ R. E, DENT GURA R, 7500 AUG 1929 [printed] \ Xylographus rufipennis n. sp. [handwritten] \ Pres. By Imp. Inst. Ent B. M. 1934-42. [printed] \ [red label] LECTOTYPE Xylographus rufipennis Pic [handwritten]"; 1 female paralectotype (MNHN), labeled: "R. E, DENT GURA R, 7500 AUG 1929 [printed] \ Xylographus rufipennis n. sp [handwritten] \ ex. British museum [handwritten] \ [yellow label] PARALECTOTYPE Xylographus rufipennis Pic [handwritten]". SEYCHELLES: male lectotype (NHM) of Xylographus seychellensis Scott 1926, here designated, labeled: "[purple disc] LECTOTYPE [printed] \ Mahe, 1908-9 Seychelles Exp. [printed] \ Percy Sladen Trust Exped. Brit. Mus. 1926-246. [printed] \ Xylographus seychellensis , Scott TYPE. ♂. [handwritten] \ Figured specimen [printed] (outline whole vis) [handwritten] \ TYPE [printed] \ [red label] LECTOTYPE Xylographus seychellensis Scott [handwritten]". SOUTH AFRICA: male lectotype (NHRS) of Xylographus tarsalis Fåhraeus 1871, labeled: "Caffraria [printed] \ J. Wahlb. [printed] \ ♂ [printed] \ [red label] Lectotype ♂ Xylographus tarsalis FÅHR. Det. Julio Ferrer 1995 [handwritten] \ [green label] Riksmuseum Stockholm [printed]"; 1 male and 1 female paralectotypes (NHRS), labeled: "Caffraria [printed] \ J. Wahlb. [printed] \ [red label] Paralectotype Xylographus tarsalis FÅHR. Det. Julio Ferrer 1995 [handwritten] \ [green label] Riksmuseum Stockholm [printed]". TANZANIA: female holotype (NHMW) of Xylographus eichelbaumi Reitter 1908, labeled: "6. [handwritten] \ Amani [printed] \ D. O. Afrika Eichelbaum’ 03 [printed] \ 13 April 1903 in Fomes nigrolachatus [handwritten] \ Amani. Deutsch Ostafr. [handwritten] \ Xylographus eichelbaumi m. Typ. 1907. [handwritten] \ Eichelbaumi Usambara Reitt. [handwritten] \ [red label] HOLOTYPE Xylographus eichelbaumi Reitt. [handwritten]".

Remarks.

Scott (1926) stated he has not examined the type of Xylographus madagascariensis and that he described Xylographus seychellensis with some hesitation. If he had examined the known male type of Xylographus madagascariensis , he would have observed that it was just slightly more elongate than the specimens he had at hand, with no other differences. Such a small difference in body elongation is expected to occur in Xylographus species with broad geopraphical distribution (see, for instance, the known variation in Xylographus globipennis ; Sandoval-Gómez et al. 2011). In order to make sure they were all conspecifics, we dissected named male Xylographus seychellensis compared to the type and also the lectotype of Xylographus madagascariensis , and we observed the sclerites of abdominal terminalia to be exactly the same. The lectotype of Xylographus tarsalis is a male Xylographus madagascariensis with weak secondary sexual characteristics. Ferrer (1997) stated that two female paralectotypes of Xylographus tarsalis were deposited in NHRS. After studying the material, we have seen that they are a male and a female instead. The names Xylographus eichelbaumi and Xylographus rufipennis were based on females, which clearly correspond to females named Xylographus madagascariensis that we examined.