Geotrupes hoffmannseggi Fairmaire, 1856: 530
Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
Bezděk, Aleš
Hájek, Jiří
Ascr, Biology Centre
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2009
2009-06-30
49
1
297
332
3FTJ5
Fairmaire, 1856
Fairmaire
1856
[364,837,1436,1461]
Insecta
Geotrupidae
Geotrupes
Animalia
Coleoptera
3
300
Arthropoda
species
hoffmannseggi
Geotrupes hoffmannseggi Fairmaire, 1856: 530. Two syntypesare deposited in NMPC (ex coll. Nickerl):
SYNTYPE(J): ‘ Geotrupes/ Hoffmannseggi [Fairmaire’s hw] // Fairmaire / coll. Dohrn [hw] // Hoffmanseggi Fairm. / Marocco[hw, pink label, black margin]’. SYNTYPE( ♀): ‘ Maroc[hw] // Fairmaire / coll. Dohrn [hw]’. Current status. Ceratophyus hoffmannseggi( Fairmaire, 1856), see, e.g., ZUNINO (1973).
Remark.The discovery of Fairmaire’s syntypesat NMP is surprising. Nevertheless, there is no doubt about the authenticity of these specimens. The identification label is written by Fairmaire himself. Moreover, it is evident from the primary description that Fairmaire examined both sexes when he described G. hoffmannseggi. ZUNINO (1973)unsuccessfully looked for types of this species at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturele, Paris, France, where the majority of Fairmaire’s types was deposited. He concluded that the types were lost and designated a neotype. Our rediscovery of the original syntypesof G. hoffmannseggiset the neotypeaside.