Lais pruinosa, Hagen in Selys, 1853

Mélanie Turiault, 2016, The type material of Calopterygidae in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (Odonata), Odonatologica 45 (1), pp. 95-106 : 101-102

Original combination: Laïs pruinosa Hagen in Selys, 1853

Status: available species-group name, valid species

Current combination: Mnesarete pruinosa (Hagen in Selys, 1853)

Type material. Two males, one female; collecting locality: Brazil; collector: Friedrich Sellow (var. Sello)

Verbatim label data male 4a9505: (1) »2274 / Pruinosa / Hagen / Brasil. Sellow« [handwritten]; (2) »2274« [printed]; (3) » Typus « [printed]; (4)»Zool. Mus. / Berlin« [printed]; (5) » Mnesarete / pruinosa (Hagen) 1853 / ♂, ♀ - Typen, Kat.-Nr. 2274« [handwritten]; (6) »Appendages / illustrated / R. Garrison 1997« [handwritten]; (7) » Lais (=Mnesareta) pruinosa Hagen « [printed]; (8) »http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/4a9505« [printed].

Verbatim label data male 4a9506: (1) »ad 2274 / Brasilien / Sello.« [handwritten]; (2) » Typus « [printed]; (3) »Zool. Mus. / Berlin« [printed]; (4)»http:// coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/4a9506« [printed].

Verbatim label data female 4a9507: (1) »ad 2274 / Brasilien / Sello.« [handwritten]; (2) » Typus « [printed]; (3) »Zool. Mus. / Berlin« [printed]; (4)»http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/4a9507« [printed].

Notes. In Hagen’s original description of Lais pruinosa , published in Selys (1853), the number of type specimens was not given, but later Selys & Hagen (1854: 93) stated: »M.Hagen a examiné cinq mâles et cinq femelles du Musée de Berlin pris au Brésil par Sellow«. The two males and the female found in the Berlin collection should therefore be considered syntypes. Rosser Garrison (pers. comm.) noted a further two syntype males in the Hagen collection at the MCZ and Jérôme Constant (pers. comm.) found two syntypes, one male and one female, in the collection of the IRSNB. André Nel (MNHN) checked the collection in Paris, but could not recognise any syntype. The whereabouts of the remaining three syntype females are still unknown.