Blaesiophthalmus variegatus ( Blackburn, 1891: 304 )

Leavengood, John M. & Garner, Beulah H., 2014, Nomenclatural notes on some checkered beetle (Coleoptera: Cleridae) types of the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH), Zootaxa 3760 (3), pp. 301-335 : 326

Blaesiophthalmus variegatus ( Blackburn, 1891: 304)

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Original combination. Metabasis variegata

Types. Blackburn referred to more than one specimen in his description. One Paralectotype is deposited in the Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, two more are deposited in the South Australian Museum. Series/ Type locality. Near Port Lincoln, South Australia.

LECTOTYPE (here designated): T. 898 [written on card mount], Type [round, red-bordered label], Australia, Blackburn Coll., B. M. 1910-236, Metabasis variegata, Blackb. (BMNH; 1).

Figures

FIGURES 48 – 53. Fig. 48) Allelidea brevipennis Pascoe, Lectotype (BMNH); Fig. 49) A. ctenostomoides Waterhouse, Paralectotype (BMNH); Fig. 50) A. viridis Blackburn, Lectotype (BMNH); Fig. 51) Blaesiophthalmus accinctus (Newman), Lectotype (BMNH); Fig. 52) B. variegatus (Blackburn), Lectotype (BMNH); Fig. 53) Lemidia nitens (Newman), Holotype (BMNH).