Lepidiota oblonga Brenske, 1900

Allsopp, Peter G., 2020, Clarification of the status of the types of Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) described before 1950, Zootaxa 4885 (4), pp. 451-486 : 467-468

Lepidiota oblonga Brenske, 1900

Lepidiota oblonga Brenske, 1900: 622 .

Lectotype (here designated) female ( Fig. 31 ): Thursday Isl. [Thursday Island] [10.59°S, 142.22°E] leg. Dr Semon (handwritten) | Lepidiota oblonga type Brsk (handwritten) | Coll. Brenske (black bordered, typeset) | my lectotype label; in ZMB .

Brenske (1900) did not define the type series, seeing an unknown number of males (vide Articles 73.1.2, 72.1.1). Britton (1978) did not include it in his revision of Australian Melolonthini , but it was listed by Houston & Weir (1992), who referred to a “ holotype ” female in ZMB but provided no discussion as to why they thought Brenske (1900) saw only one specimen. This does not constitute a valid lectotype designation (vide Article 74.5), and I designate the specimen in ZMB the lectotype.

Figures

FIGURES 29–37. 29–30. Lepidiota minuta Moser, 1913, labels on types. 29, lectotype male; 30, paralectotype female. 31, Lepidiota oblonga Brenske, 1900, labels on lectotype; 32, Lepidiota podicalis Moser, 1913, labels on lectotype. 33, Lepidiota sororia Moser, 1913, labels on lectotype; 34, Lepidiota parva Moser, 1913 (junior synonym of Lepidiota rothei Blackburn, 1888), labels on lectotype. 35–36. Lepidiota rugicollis Moser, 1913 (junior synonym of Lepidiota rubrior Blackburn, 1890), labels on specimens. 35, lectotype male; 36, non-type specimen in ZMB. 37. Holophylla furfuracea Burmeister, 1855 (now Pseudholophylla furfuracea), label on lectotype. Figs. 29–36 courtesy of Museum für Naturkunde. Fig. 37 courtesy of Karla Schneider.