Pseudoscelida nigrolimbata ( Jacoby, 1899 ), 2019

Bezděk, Jan, 2019, Taumacera revisited, with new synonyms, new combinations and a revised catalogue of the species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 59 (1), pp. 23-52 : 49

Pseudoscelida nigrolimbata ( Jacoby, 1899) , comb. nov.

( Fig. 110 )

Platyxantha nigrolimbata Jacoby, 1899: 301 (original description)

Type material examined. SYNTYPES: 1♂, ‘Type / H.T. [white round label with red collar, p] // Soekaranda / Sumatra / Dohrn [w, h] // Jacoby Coll./ 1909-28a [w, p] // Platyxantha / nigrolimbata / type Jac. [b, h]’ ( BMNH); 1 ♀, ‘Dohrn / Sumatra / Soekaranda [w, p] // Jacoby Coll. / 1909-28a [w, p] // nigrolimbata Jac [grey label, h]’ ( BMNH).

Comments. There are two syntypes (male and female) deposited in the BMNH. The male has filiform antennae covered with very long hairs ( Fig. 110 ) and the posterior margin of the procoxal cavities closed as is typical for the genus Pseudoscelida Jacoby, 1894 . Therefore, I transfer Platyxantha nigrolimbata to Pseudoscelida .

Figures

Figs 105–112. Habitus of species excluded from Taumacera. 105 – Fleutiauxia chinensis (Maulik, 1933) (male, syntype); 106 – F. chinensis (female, syntype of F. mutifrons Gressitt & Kimoto, 1963); 107 – Hoplosaenidea abdominalis (Jacoby, 1884) (male, holotype of Platyxantha wallacei Jacoby, 1895); 108 – Hoplosaenidea dohertyi (Jacoby, 1894) (female, syntype); 109 – Hyphaenia balyi (Jacoby, 1895) (female, lectotype); 110 – Pseudoscelida nigrolimbata (Jacoby, 1899) (male, syntype); 111 – Metrioidea grandis (Allard, 1889) (male, syntype of Platyxantha robusta Jacoby, 1895); 112 – Theopella bodjoensis (Duvivier, 1885) (female, syntype of Platyxantha quadraticollis Jacoby, 1896).