Mispila (Dryusa) flexuosa ( Pascoe, 1864 )

Xie, Guanglin, Barclay, Maxwell V. L. & Wang, Wenkai, 2023, The collection of the genus Mispila Pascoe, 1864 housed in the Natural History Museum, London (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), Zootaxa 5352 (2), pp. 245-265 : 261-262

Mispila (Dryusa) flexuosa ( Pascoe, 1864)

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Dryusa flexuosa Pascoe, 1864: 92 ; Gemminger & Harold, 1873: 3092.

Dryusa fexuosa: Thomson, 1864: 493 (misspelling).

Mispila (Dryusa) flexuosa: Aurivillius, 1922: 276 ; Breuning, 1961a: 282.

Type material examined. Indonesia: Lectotype, male (here designated): ‘Type [p, label circular, red framed]; Mysol [h, label oval, dark green]; Dryusa / flexuosa / Type Pasc. [h]; Dryusa / flexuosa [h]; Dryusa / flexuosa [h]; NHMUK 014596817 [p]’. Paralectotype (here indicated), 1 female: ‘Para/lecto/type [p, label circular, blue framed]; Aru [h, blue-grey circular label]; Dryusa / flexuosa / Pasc [h]; NHMUK 014596816’; Paralectotype (here indicated), 1 female: ‘Para/lecto/type [p, label circular, blue framed]; Aru / 82 [h, white circular label]; Pascoe / Coll. / 93–60. [p]; Dryusa / flexuosa [h]’; Paralectotype (here indicated), 1 male: ‘Para/lecto/type [p, label circular, blue framed]; Ceram [h, label oval, dark green]; Dryusa / flexuosa Pasc. [h] / Det.–E. F. GILMOUR [p]; Data unreliable. / See Brit. Mus. / 1949–314. [Label yellow]’.

Non-type material examined. Indonesia: 1 male: ‘ Ceram [h]; Bowring. / 63·47* [p]’. (West Papua) : 1 male: ‘Para/lecto/ type [p, label circular, blue framed]; Dor. [Dorey, New Guinea]/ 285 [h, white circular label]; Pascoe / coll. / 93–60. [p] ’

Comments. Four syntypes (2 males, 2 females) were confirmed from Pascoe’s collection based on the locality. Herein we designated one male specimen, which has been labelled with a handwritten identification label marked with ‘ Type’ , as the lectotype and the remaining specimens become paralectotypes. One specimen labelled ‘Dor.’ by Wallace is from Dorey (now Manokwari), New Guinea, and although labelled in the past as a paralectotype, it is here excluded from the type series, as this locality is not mentioned in the description.

Figures

FIGURE 14. Habitus of Mispila (Dryusa) flexuosa (Pascoe, 1864). (a–d) lectotype, male; (e–h) paralectotype, female; scale: 5 mm.