Mispila (s. str.) obscura Gahan, 1890

Xie, Guanglin, Barclay, Maxwell V. L. & Wang, Wenkai, 2023, The collection of the genus Mispila Pascoe, 1864 housed in the Natural History Museum, London (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), Zootaxa 5352 (2), pp. 245-265 : 252

Mispila (s. str.) obscura Gahan, 1890

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Mispila obscura Gahan, 1890: 62 ; Kariyanna et al., 2017: 193.

Mispila (Mispila) obscura: Aurivillius, 1922: 275 ; Breuning, 1961a: 281; Breuning, 1963b: 477.

Alidus madurensis Pic, 1925: 25 .

Type material examined. India. Lectotype, female (here designated, Figure 5a–d ): ‘ Type [p, label circular, red framed]; Nilgiri Hills. / G. F. Hampson. / 94–89. [p]; Mispila / obscura / Gahan / Type [h]; NHMUK014596487 ’; Paralectotype, 1 male (here indicated, Figure 5e–h ): ‘ Nilgiri Hills. / G. F. Hampson. / 94–89. [p]; m. obscura [h]; NHMUK014596465 ’.

Non-type material examined. India: 1 female: ‘ Nilgiri Hills / H. L. Andrewes [p]; Andrewes Bequest / B. M. 1922–221. [p]; Mispila obscura Gah. , [h] / Breuning det. [p]’; 1 female: ‘ Nilgiri Hills / H. L. Andrewes [p]; Andrewes Bequest / B. M. 1922–221. [p]; Mispila obscura Gah. [h] / det. Breuning [p]’.

Comments. Two syntypes were confirmed in the collection. Herein we designated the female specimen as the lectotype, which has been labelled with a handwritten identification label marked with ‘Type’.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Habitus of Mispila (s. str.) obscura Gahan, 1890 (a–d) lectotype, female; (e–h) paralectotype, male; scale: 5 mm.