Nesotrinchus wallisii ( Montrouzier, 1855 ) Bílý & Kubáň & Volkovitsh, 2009

Bílý, Svatopluk, Kubáň, Vítězslav & Volkovitsh, Mark G., 2009, A study on the tribe Poecilonotini, with a revision of the subtribe Nesotrinchina subtrib. nov. and the description of a new genus and species from Papua New Guinea (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Chrysochroinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (2), pp. 729-767 : 758-759

Nesotrinchus wallisii ( Montrouzier, 1855) , comb. nov.

Buprestis wallisii Montrouzier, 1855: 11 . Type locality: Pacific Islands, Wallis and Futuna (French): Wallis Island [not New Caledonia or Woodlark Island!].

Chalcophora wallisi [sic!]: GEMMINGER & HAROLD (1869): 1359 (catalogue; distribution: ‘Polynesia’).

‘Doubtful genus’ wallisii: SAUNDERS (1871) : 137 (catalogue; genus doubtful; distribution: ‘Polynesia’).

Dicercomorpha wallisii: FAIRMAIRE (1881) : 265 (comment – probably identical with ‘ coeruleipennis [sic!] Fairm.’ or ‘ coeruleipennis [sic!] Thomson’; distribution: Wallis Island); KERREMANS (1885): 135 (as wallisi [sic!]; catalogue; as possible synonym of caeruleipennis Fairmaire ); KERREMANS (1892): 85 (as wallizi [sic!]; catalogue; as valid name, with caeruleipennis Fairmaire and caeruleipennis Thomson as synonyms; distribution: New Caledonia – mistake); KERREMANS (1900a): 294 (as wallisi [sic!]; comment – different from caeruleipennis Fairmaire ).

Paracupta wallisii: KERREMANS (1903) : 84 (as wallisi [sic!]; list of species [see also Haplotrinchus wallisii in KER- REMANS (1903:127)]; distribution:‘Polynésie’); KERREMANS (1909): 109 (as wallisi [sic!]; in key as incertae sedis), 154 (as wallisi [sic!]; monograph; distribution: ‘Iles Woodlark’ – mistake); OBENBERGER (1926b): 125 (as wallisi

[sic!]; catalogue [see also Haplotrinchus wallisii in OBENBERGER (1930): 359]; distribution: Woodlark Island in Papua New Guinea – mistake); CARTER (1929): 301 (as wallisi [sic!]; list of species; distribution: Woodlark Island in Papua New Guinea – mistake).

Haplotrinchus wallisii: KERREMANS (1903) : 127 (as wallisi [sic!]; list of species [see also Paracupta wallisii in KERREMANS (1903): 84]; distribution: New Caledonia – mistake); OBENBERGER (1930): 359 (as wallisi [sic!]; catalogue [see also Paracupta wallisii in OBENBERGER (1926b): 125]; distribution: New Caledonia – mistake); THÉRY (1943): 644 (as wallisi [sic!]; comment); BELLAMY (2008): 508 (catalogue; distribution: Woodlark Island in Papua New Guinea – mistake).

Remarks. We failed to find out any details on the type deposition but the type is not deposited in MNHN as mentioned by BELLAMY (2008). The type locality of N. wallisii is the Wallis Island and no other localities are known; its reported presence in New Caledonia and on the Woodlark Island (see above) is most probably an error. We agree with the concept of FAIR- MAIRE (1881), who compared ‘ Buprestis wallisii Montr. ’ with ‘ Dicercomorpha caeruleipennis Fairm. ’, and attribute this species to the genus Nesotrinchus .

Distribution. Pacific Islands (French Wallis and Futuna: Wallis Island).