Bolboceras excavatum R. A. Philippi, 1859

Bezděk, Aleš, Hájek, Jiří & Ascr, Biology Centre, 2009, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (1), pp. 297-332 : 299

Bolboceras excavatum R. A. Philippi, 1859

Bolboceras excavatus R. A. Philippi, 1859: 660 in F. PHILIPPI (1859).

Three syntypes are deposited in NMPC (ex coll. Nickerl):

SYNTYPE (J): ‘ Chile [hw] // Typus [p, red label, black margin] // Coll. Nickerl / Mus. Pragense [p] // Bolboceras / excavatum / Phil. Typ! Chili [hw, green label, black margin] // BOLBOCERAS / EXCAVATUM / PHILIPPI [hw] / LECTOTYPE / A.B. T. SMITH [p, red label] // Southern Neotropical Scarabs / database # AS 2616199 / Bolborhinum laesicolle / ( Fairmaire, 1856) J / DET: A.B. T. SMITH 2008 [p] ’.

SYNTYPE (J): ‘ Chile [hw] // Typus [p, red label, black margin] // Coll. Nickerl, Mus. Pragense [p] // BOLBOCERAS / EXCAVATUM / PHILIPPI [hw] / PARALECTOTYPE / A.B.T. SMITH [p, yellow label] // Southern Neotropical Scarabs / database # AS 2616200 / Bolborhinum laesicolle / ( Fairmaire, 1856) J / DET: A.B.T. SMITH 2008 [p]’.

SYNTYPE (J): ‘ Chile [hw] // Typus [p, red label, black margin] // Coll. Nickerl, Mus. Pragense [p]’.

Current status. Junior subjective synonym of Bolborrhinum laesicolle ( Fairmaire, 1856) , see MONCADA & SMITH (2008).

Remark. PHILIPPI (1859) did not specify the depository of the type specimen(s). MONCADA & SMITH (2008) unsuccessfully checked for the type material at Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago de Chile, Chile, where the majority of Philippi’s types was housed. They concluded that the type series has been lost and they designated a neotype. Our rediscovery of the original syntypes of B. excavatum set the neotype aside.A lectotype designation proposed by Smith is, as of now, unpublished.