Titinia tenuis (Germar, 1848)

Yunakov, Nikolai, Korotyaev, Boris & Alziar, Gabriel, 2024, Miscellaneous notes on the systematics of and synonymy in Entiminae (Coleoptera, Curculionidae), Contributions to Entomology 74 (2), pp. 249-264 : 249-264

Titinia tenuis (Germar, 1848)

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Merimnetes tenuis Germar, 1848: 220 .

Myllocerus (Pseudanosimus) bacchus Voss, 1949: 75, syn. nov.

Type material.

AUSTRALIA - Victoria • 1 paratype; “ Bacchus / Marsh. Vict. XII. ” [blueish label, handwritten], “ Bacchus / Marsh. Vict. XII. ” [handwritten], “ Paratypus / Myllocerus / bacchus m. ” [red label], “ Coll. E. Voss / Eing. 3-75 ”; ZMH 841041 .

Notes.

While studying African specimens of the genus Myllocerus Schoenherr, 1823 from Eduard Voss’s collection in the Zoological Museum of Hamburg University, we found M. bacchus Voss, 1949 , previously described from East Africa. However, upon closer examination of the paratype, we identified it as the South Australian Titinia tenuis (Germar, 1848) , uncovering a misinterpretation of the label. Eduard Voss had mistakenly assumed that “ Bacchus Marsh. Vict. ” referred to a location near Lake Victoria in Africa, when Bacchus Marsh actually is a peri-urban town near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Titinia tenuis is distributed in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, and Victoria ( Oberprieler and Zimmerman 2020).

Figures

Figure 3. Myllocerus bacchus (= Titinia tenuis): A, B. Paratype, body dorsal and lateral view; C. Paratype, labels. Photo credit: by Matthias Seidel (ZMH), CC-BY 4.0; D. Map showing correction of the type locality from African Lake Victoria to Bacchus Marsh, a peri-urban town near Melbourne (Victoria, Australia).