Platylabus rubristernatus Heinrich, 1962

(Figures 32, 33)

Platylabus rubristernatus Heinrich, 1962b: 713 (descr., key); Carlson 1979: 545 (cat., distr.); Yu and Horstmann 1997: 680 (cat.); Yu et al. 2016 (cat.).

Original type series

Holotype ♀, original designation (EMUS); paratypes: 2♀♀ (USNM) and 1♀ (ZSM).

Type locality

United States of America, North Carolina, ‘Mt. Pisgah’.

Type specimens examined (Figure 32)

Holotype: ‘[Yellow label] Mt. Pisgah, N. C./ 5000 – 5749 ft. / 5 September 1939 /H. & M. Townes // [Blue label] HOMOTYPE/ Platylabus / rubricapensis /Prov./ H. K. Townes ’41 // [White label] Platylabus /rubristerna- i/ tus Heinr./det. Heinrich // [Yellow label] Type No./ 194 // [Red label] TYPE/ Platylabus ♀ / rubristernatus ’.

Updated distribution (Figure 33)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Connecticut (Carlson 1979), Illinois (Heinrich 1962b), New York (Heinrich 1962b), North Carolina (Heinrich 1962b), Ohio (Heinrich 1962b).

Host

Unknown.

Male

Unknown.

Comments

The holotype of this species is one of the specimens that Townes and Townes (1951, p. 281) identified as Platylabus rubricapensis from New York . It also bears a label that reads ‘HOMOTYPE Platylabus rubricapensis ’ (Figure 32d), which identifies the hypothesis of species that Townes had in 1941.