Phyllobaenus rufipes ( Newman, 1840: 363 )

Leavengood, John M. & Garner, Beulah H., 2014, Nomenclatural notes on some checkered beetle (Coleoptera: Cleridae) types of the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH), Zootaxa 3760 (3), pp. 301-335 : 314

Phyllobaenus rufipes ( Newman, 1840: 363)

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Original combination. Hydnocera rufipes

Types. In the BMNH there is a specimen with a type label (applied by a BMNH curator) and another specimen with nearly identical label data. The second specimen indicates the collector whereas the first does not. However, Newman’s species descriptions from the Entomology Club were often based on specimens that lacked the locality and/or collector data cited in his original publications. Because only “a single specimen” was collected by Doubleday ( Newman 1840), I here recognize the specimen with the locality data most perfectly matching the publication (i.e., “ East Florida ” with no additional information). The specimen from St. John’s Bluff, East Florida is presumed to have been collected after the description of rufipes . Nonetheless, a lectotype is designated herein as it is certain that this mystery will never meet any solution.

Series/ Type locality. East Florida.

HOLOTYPE (fixed by monotypy): Type [circular, red-bordered label], Hydnocera rufipes, Ent. Club 44-12, Hydnocera rufipes Newm. , East Florida ( BMNH; 1).

Figures

FIGURES 21 – 26. Fig. 21) Phyllobaenus obscurus (Gorham), Lectotype (BMNH); Fig. 22) P. r ud i s (Gorham), Lectotype (BMNH); Fig. 23) P. rufipes (Newman), Holotype (BMNH); Fig. 24) P. testaceus (Gorham), Lectotype (BMNH); Fig. 25) P. testaceus (Gorham), Paralectotype (BMNH); Fig. 26) P. testaceus (Gorham), Paralectotype (BMNH).