Anthochaera carunculata tregellasi Mathews

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Anthochaera carunculata tregellasi Mathews

Anthochaera carunculata tregellasi Mathews, 1912a: 419 (Victoria) .

Now Anthochaera carunculata carunculata (Shaw, 1790) . See Salomonsen, 1967: 447, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 301–302, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 623– 624.

HOLOTYPE: AMNH 696384 , adult male, collected at Frankston , 38.08S, 145.07E ( USBGN, 1957), Victoria, Australia, on 20 April 1908, by Thomas Tregellas. From the Mathews Collection (no. 3372) via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of tregellasi as ‘‘ Victoria, South Australia.’’ The holotype bears, in addition to Tregellas’ original label, Mathews and Rothschild type labels and a ‘‘ Figured’ ’ label, indicating that it was illustrated in Mathews (1925a: pl. 549, opp. p. 62, text p. 63), where it is confirmed as the type of tregellasi. The following specimens are paratypes: Warunda Creek , Eyre Peninsula , AMNH 696373 ( Mathews no. 9582), male, 27 August 1911, AMNH 696374 (9581), male, 2 September 1911, AMNH 696375 (9583), female, 25 August 1911, AMNH 696376 (9585), sex?, 25 August 1911 ; Arno Bay , AMNH 696377 (9586), female, 8 September 1911 ; Lake Greenly , AMNH 696378 (9584) male, 29 August 1911 ; Phillip Island , AMNH 696383 (8535), female, 19 January 1911 ; Ringwood , AMNH 696387 (3377), female, 25 October 1908 ; Bayswater , AMNH 696390 (8138), female, 12 November 1910, AMNH 696391 (10067), female immature, 20 October 1911 ; Mitcham, AMNH 696407 (10066), sex?, 17 June 1911. The following specimens were collected early enough but I did not find them in Mathews’ catalog and do not know when they came into his possession: AMNH 696372 , male, Port Lincoln , November 1865 ; AMNH 696389 , male, Olinda , 7 April 1909 ; AMNH 696401 , male, Brighton, 1881 ; AMNH 696408 , male, Mordialloc, 1896 ; AMNH 696410 , male, Wonga Park , 1 September 1907 ; AMNH 696411 , female, St. Remo, 13 August 1900. The following four specimens were collected by [C.F.] Cole: AMNH 696399 , male, Auburn , 14 July 1896 ; AMNH 696403 , male, Croydon , 4 April 1907 ; AMNH 696404 , male, Lang Lang , 9 May 1908 ; AMNH 696405 , female, Lang Lang , 14 April 1909. While Mathews did catalog a few specimens that Cole sent him earlier, apparently most of his collection came to Mathews in 1914 ( Whittell, 1954: 158), after Mathews had ceased to catalog specimens and too late for him to have had them by the 31 January 1912 publication date of tregellasi. These were not among the specimens cataloged earlier and I do not consider them paratypes. Other specimens in AMNH are either undat- ed, were collected too late, or were never in the Mathews Collection .