Echo incarnata Karsch, 1892

Mélanie Turiault, 2016, The type material of Calopterygidae in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (Odonata), Odonatologica 45 (1), pp. 95-106 : 97

Original combination: Echo incarnata Karsch, 1892

Status: available species-group name; valid species

Current combination: Archineura incarnata ( Karsch, 1892)

Type material. Two males; collecting locality: Mount Emei (Emei Shan), Sichuan province, China; collector: Franz Kricheldorff

Verbatim label data male 4a9573: (1) »Omi-shan / Westchina / Kricheldorff S.« [printed; “S” stands for the German word “Sammler”, i.e., collector]; (2) » Typus « [printed]; (3) » Echo / incarnata * Karsch« [handwritten]; (4)»6613« [printed]; (5) »http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/4a9573« [printed].

Verbatim label data male 4a9574: (1) » Typus « [printed]; (2) »ad 6613« [handwritten]; (3) »Omi-shan / Westchina / Kricheldorff S.« [printed]; (4)»http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/4a9574« [printed].

Notes. Karsch (1892) described two males: »[...] die Flügel sind glasig, glänzend, im Wurzel-Drittel jedoch undurchsichtig und prachtvoll matt roth, bei einem der beiden Exemplare tief carminroth, bei dem andern rosenroth, [...]«. Figure 1 shows the brighter one (»bei dem andern rosenroth«). He also gave further information concerning the collecting locality: »Omi-shan p. Kiating, China occidentalis«, and »Omi-shan ist nach Herrn Kricheldorff ein Berg von 11.000 Fuß Höhe«. According to HÄmÄlÄinen (2015) the collector was Franz Kricheldorff (1854–1924), who assisted the explorer Antwerp Edgar Pratt (1850–1920) in Sichuan from March 1889 to October 1890. The two males found in Berlin collection should be considered syntypes.

Figures

Figure 1. Echo incarnata Karsch 1892, synonym of Archineura incarnata (Karsch, 1892); male syntype in coll. MNB (♂ 4 a 9574), dorsal view.