Pseudholophylla cavifrons ( Lea, 1919 )

Allsopp, Peter G., 2020, Clarification of the status of the types of Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) described before 1950, Zootaxa 4885 (4), pp. 451-486 : 476-477

Pseudholophylla cavifrons ( Lea, 1919)

Paralepidiota cavifrons Lea, 1919: 186 .

Pseudholophylla cavifrons: Britton 1978: 34 .

Holotype (by original designation) male ( Figs. 60–62 ): cavifrons (handwritten) Lea, TYPE (typeset) Chillagoe [17.15°S, 144.52°E] (handwritten) | I.10783 Paralepidiota cavifrons Lea Queensland (handwritten) TYPE (handwritten in red, at right angle) | SAMA Database No. 25-034460 (typeset) | my holotype label; in SAM.

Paratype. 1 male: Chillagoe (typeset) | Paralepidiota cavifrons Lea (handwritten by Britton) | SAMA Database No. 25-034460 | my paratype label; in SAM .

Lea (1916) did not define the type series, seeing an unknown number of males (vide Articles 73.1.2, 72.1.1). However, in that paper he unequivocally designated a “Type” with the SAM registration number I.10783 (vide Article 73.1.1). It is presumably the specimen considered as the holotype by Britton (1978) and is the one noted as the holotype by Houston & Weir (1992). Britton (1978) also noted two male paratypes with the same data in SAM and ANIC; this was followed by Houston & Weir (1992).

Figures

FIGURES 51–62. 51–53, Lectotype male of Microrhopaea flavipennis Lea, 1920. 51, dorsal; 52, lateral; 53, labels. 54–56, Lectotype male of Rhopaea callabonnensis Blackburn, 1894 (now Pararhopaea callabonnensis). 54, dorsal; 55, lateral; 56, labels. 57–59, Holotype male of Pararhopaea rhipidocera Lea, 1916. 57, dorsal; 58, lateral; 59, labels. 60–62, Holotype male of Paralepidiota cavifrons Lea, 1919 (now Pseudholophylla cavifrons). 60, dorsal; 61, lateral; 62, labels. Photographs courtesy of the South Australian Museum Board.