Aceraius ceylonicus Kuwert, 1891

Bezděk, Aleš, Boucher, Stéphane, Hájek, Jiří & Cas, Biology Centre, 2017, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57 (1), pp. 279-293 : 284

publication ID

C24C12DA-882D-4C40-B0D9-E8229967EFA0

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10542157

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4C3887C8-FFB7-A369-2DB5-D9F6B95CFE04

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scientific name

Aceraius ceylonicus Kuwert, 1891
status

 

Aceraius ceylonicus Kuwert, 1891 View in CoL

Acerajus ceylonicus Kuwert, 1891: 163 View in CoL .

One syntype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. Nickerl).

SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Helfer [hw Kuwert] // Tenasserim / Helfer [hw] // ceylonicus / t. Kuwert / 55 typ! [hw Nickerl] // Nickerl [p] // TYPUS [p, red label, black margin] // ceylonicus / Kuw. / syntype revised [hw] / S. Boucher det. [p] 13 [hw]’.

Current status. Valid species.

Remark. The locality of this syntype does not agree with the original description, which is ‘Ceylon’. Later on, KUWERT (1898b) indicated distribution of this species as ‘ Ceylon, Sikkim’. According to the current knowledge, the species is distributed in Sikkim, but not in Ceylon ( ZANG 1905, GRAVELY 1914). The specimen in NMPC belongs to the same species as the one in Kuwert’s collection in MNHN. Both specimens have the length as given in the original description, and with the same handwritten label ‘Helfer’. There is no doubt that the original locality has been corrected by Kuwert, and that both specimens form the type series. Johann Wilhelm Helfer (1810–1840), an employee of the British East India Company, collected both in northeastern India and Tenasserim, but not in Ceylon. The mislabelling of the specimen might have happened after Helfer’s sudden death in Andaman Islands in 1840, and the relocation of his collection to Europe.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Passalidae

Genus

Aceraius

Loc

Aceraius ceylonicus Kuwert, 1891

Bezděk, Aleš, Boucher, Stéphane, Hájek, Jiří & Cas, Biology Centre 2017
2017
Loc

Acerajus ceylonicus

KUWERT A. F. 1891: 163
1891
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