Lepidiota perkinsi Blackburn, 1912

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 : 468

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4885.4.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4340871
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scientific name	Lepidiota perkinsi Blackburn, 1912
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Lepidiota perkinsi Blackburn, 1912: 56 .

Lectotype (here designated) male: Type H. T. (circular red ringed, typeset) | aedeagus dissected and mounted on card | 7900 Cairns [16.93°S, 145.25°E] (handwritten in red) ♂ (handwritten) | Blackburn coll. 1910-236 (typeset) | LEPIDIOTA perkinsi, Blackb. (handwritten) | my lectotype label; in NHML. GoogleMaps

Paralectotypes. 1: Cairns (typeset) | Perkinsi, Blackb. (handwritten) | my paralectotype label; 1: Cairns, E. Allen (typeset) | Co-type (typeset) | 8900 Lepidiota perkinsi Bl. Queensland (handwritten) Cotype (handwritten in red, at right angle) | my paralectotype label; 1: Cairns (typeset) | 8900 idiota [sic] Perkinsi, Blackb. (handwritten) | I.816 Lepidiota perkinsi Blkb. Queensland (handwritten) Cotype (handwritten in red, at right angle) | my paralectotype label; all in SAM; 1 female, Type H.T. (circular red ringed, typeset) | aedeagus dissected and mounted on card | 7900 Cairns (handwritten in red) ♀ T (handwritten) | Blackburn coll. 1910-236 (typeset) | LEPIDIOTA perkinsi, Blackb. (handwritten) | my paralectotype label; in NHML.

Blackburn (1912) did not define the type series, seeing an unknown number of males and females (vide Articles 73.1.2, 72.1.1) from Cairns. Lea (1912) noted that the ‘type’ had been sent to NHML and later ( Lea 1916) saw four “co-types” of this species. Britton (1978) referred to a “ holotype ” male in NHML and three “ paratypes ” in SAM, all from Cairns. Houston & Weir (1992) listed the same material and interpreted Britton’s (1978) incorrect reference to a holotype as a lectotype designation. As Britton (1978) and Houston & Weir (1992) provided no discussion and did not label any specimen in NHML, neither mention of a holotype constitutes a valid lectotype designation (vide Article 74.5). To stabilise nomenclature, I designate the male in NHML the lectotype. The three syntypes in SAM and the female syntype in NHML become paralectotypes.