Bietia rudicollis Fairmaire, 1898

Jákl, Stanislav, Král, David & Kubáň, Vítězslav, 2010, A review of the genus Bietia with a description of a new species from Yunnan, China (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae: Goliathini), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 50 (2), pp. 517-528 : 525

Bietia rudicollis Fairmaire, 1898

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Bietia rudicollis Fairmaire, 1898: 386 . Type locality: Western China, western Sichuan (‘Se-Pin-Lou-Chan (Thibet)’).

Bietia rudicollis: SCHENKLING (1921) : 81 (catalogue); WINKLER (1929): column 1119 (catalogue); MEDVEDEV (1964): 37 (description); MIKŠIĆ (1977): 380 (redescription); SAKAI & NAGAI (1998): 234 (catalogue note in Japanese); SMETANA (2006): 301 (catalogue).

Bietia (Bietia) rudicollis: KRAJČÍK (1998) : 19 (catalogue).

Atropinota funkei Heller, 1923: 78 , syn. nov. Type locality: Western China, western Sichuan, Kangding (‘Tatsienlu’).

Atropinota funkei: WINKLER (1929) :column 1120 (catalogue); MEDVEDEV (1964):105 (description); MA (1995): 110, fig. 88 (description); KRAJČÍK (1998): 25 (catalogue); SMETANA (2006): 284 (catalogue).

Type material examined. Atropinota funkei : LECTOTYPE (hereby designated): ‘ Szetschwan / Tatsienlu [now Kangding] / Stötzner-Expedition [p] // 1923 [p] / 4 [h] // Atropinota / funkei m [h] / det. K. M. Heller 19 [p] 22 [h] // Staatl. Museum für / Tierkunde, Dresden [p]’ (1 J, SMTD) . PARALECTOTYPES (1 J, 1 ♀): ‘Szetschwan / Tatsienlu [now Kangding] / Stötzner-Expedition [p] // PARATYPUS [p] // Para- [h] typus [p] Atropinota funkei Heller [h] [white label with red margin] // coll. / Tesař [p]’ (1 J, NMPC) ; ‘ Szetschwan / Tatsienlu [now Kangding] / Stötzner- Expedition [p] // 1923 [p] / 4 [h] // Atropinota / funkei H [h] / typus [p] [red label] // Staatl. Museum für / Tierkunde, Dresden [p]’ (1 ♀, SMTD) .

Note. One additional male paralectotype of A. funkei deposited in SMTD does not belong to this species but to Aethiessa sp. The label data of this specimen are as follows: ‘Szetschwan / Tatsienlu [now Kangding] / Stötzner- Expedition [p] // Co-Type [h] // Atropinota g.n. / funkei m. (cotypus) [h] / Det. K. M. Heller 19 [p] 22 [h]’.

Additional material examined. CHINA: SICHUAN: ‘Se Pin – Lou Chan / Ya Tcheou / Chasseurs indigènes / 1893 [p] // Bietia / rudicollis Fairm. / comp. with type / St. Jákl det., 2006 [p]’ (1 J, MNHN); ‘Se Pin – Lou Chan / Ya Tcheou / Chasseurs indigènes / 1893 [p] // Coll. Kraatz [p] // Atropinota / funkei Heller [h] / det. Schein, München [p] // Bietia / rudicollis Fairm. / comp. with type / St. Jákl det., 2006 [p]’ (1 J, DEI).

Remarks. The number of syntypes of Atropinota funkei is unknown. Three syntypes were found in SMTD, of which one male belongs in fact to the genus Aethiessa Burmeister, 1842 and does not correspond to the original description. An additional male syntype was found in NMPC (see also BEZDĚK & HÁJEK 2010). As the type series consists of two different species, we designate here the single male deposited in SMTD as the lectotype to fix the identity of Atropinota funkei . We compared this lectotype with two male specimens of Bietia rudicollis which had been compared with a syntype from the Fairmaire collection in MNHN. We failed to find any difference between these specimens. Therefore, we consider Atropinota funkei Heller, 1923 to be conspecific with Bietia rudicollis Fairmaire, 1898 and propose the latter as its junior subjective synonym.

Figures

Figs. 1–4. Habitus, dorsal view. 1 – Bietia naxiorum sp. nov., holotype; 2 – B. naxiorum sp. nov., allotype; 3 – B. rudicollis Fairmaire, 1898 (non-type specimen, MNHN); 4 – B. simillima Fairmaire, 1898 (non-type specimen, MNHN).

Figs. 9–14. Parameres (9, 11, 13 – dorsal view; 10, 12, 14 – lateral view). 9, 10 – Bietia naxiorum sp. nov., holotype; 11, 12 – B. rudicollis Fairmaire, 1898 (non-type specimen, MNHN); 13, 14 – B. simillima Fairmaire, 1898 (non-type specimen, MNHN).