Hyphaenia balyi ( Jacoby, 1895 ), 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 : 48

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.2478/aemnp-2019-0003

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5062932

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Hyphaenia balyi ( Jacoby, 1895 )
status

comb. nov.

Hyphaenia balyi ( Jacoby, 1895) , comb. nov.

( Fig. 109 View Figs 105–112 )

Platyxantha balyi Jacoby, 1895b: 111 (original description)

Type material examined. LECTOTYPE (designated here): ♀, ‘Type / H. T. [white round label with red collar, p] // Perak [w, h] // Jacoby Coll. / 1909-28a [w, p] // Platyxantha / Balyi Jac. / Type [b, h] // LECTOTYPE / Platyxantha / balyi Jacoby, 1895 / J. Bezděk des. 2017 [r, p]’ ( BMNH). PARALECTOTYPE: ♀, ‘ Perak [w, h] // Jacoby Coll. / 1909-28a [w, p] // PARALECTOTYPE / Platyxantha / balyi Jacoby, 1895 / J. Bezděk des. 2017 [r, p]’ ( BMNH).

Comments. Platyxantha balyi is a species completely overlooked by all subsequent authors and thus missing in all catalogues and publications. It was described from Perak from an unspecified number of specimens, however, Jacoby must have had at least two specimens as he mentioned length span. In the BMNH I have found two syntypes (females) belonging to two different species. One female is certainly Hyphaenia and is designated here as a lectotype ( Fig. 109 View Figs 105–112 ). The other female is a representative of Hoplosaenidea but I am unable to assign it to any species at the moment. The lectotype is similar to Hyphaenia azlani Mohamedsaid, 1998 but I avoid synonymizing them without the study of type specimens.

JACOBY M. 1895 a: Descriptions of new species of Phytophagous Coleoptera from the Indo- and Austro-Malayan-Regions. Entomologische Zeitung (Stettin) 56: 52 - 80.

JACOBY M. 1895 b: Descriptions of some new species of phytophagous Coleoptera from the East. The Entomologist, 25 (Supplement): 105 - 111.

MOHAMEDSAID M. S. 1998 a: Checklist of the Galerucinae from Taman Negara Gunung Gading, Sarawak (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Serangga 3: 67 - 85.

Gallery Image

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).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

SubFamily

Galerucinae

Genus

Hyphaenia