Dermaptera

Lonsdale, Owen & Locke, Michelle M., 2018, Name-bearing type specimens in the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids & Nematodes (CNC): Blattodea, Dermaptera, Notoptera, Mecoptera, Megaloptera, Myriapoda, Neuroptera, Odonata, Orthoptera, Phthiraptera, Pseudoscorpiones, Psocoptera, Raphidioptera & Siphonaptera, Zootaxa 4526 (2), pp. 101-126 : 106

Dermaptera

assamensis Sakai, 1997 , Chaetospania

Valid name: Irdex nitidipennis (de Bormans, 1894)

holotype (1 male, preparation unknown).

Verbatim: [locality data not provided on genitalia slide] / CNC 607392.

Interpretive data: INDIA. Assam: Amatulla , 26°55′47″N 92°7′18″E, 417 to 667m, 10.iii.1961, F. Schmid, Swiss Zoological Expedition, CNC607392 .

Determination: Chaetospania assamensis Sakai (1997) Syntype ♂ / Holotype ♂ genitalia S. Sakai.

Comments: Locality data taken from the original description ( Sakai 1997). Unique identifier added to unit tray for eventual addition to specimen. Whereabouts of the specimen body unknown, genitalia on slide in CNC. A letter from R. Skidmore (dated 1998, in response to loan L- 1999-01-11) indicates that the body of the holotype specimen was not returned by Sakai with the paratypes, however, a slide of the holotype genitalia was received. Remainder of body possibly in Sakai collection at Osaka Museum of Natural History. Almost all other paratypes (labelled as “ syntypes ”) from the specific collecting event appear to be present except for the allotype, which is also absent and may be with Sakai collection. Genitalia dissected on slide with same Specimen ID ( CNC607392 ) .