Basilianus interrogationis Kuwert, 1891

Bezděk, Aleš, Boucher, Stéphane, Hájek, Jiří & Cas, Biology Centre, 2017, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57 (1), pp. 279-293 : 286

Basilianus interrogationis Kuwert, 1891

Basilianus interrogationis Kuwert, 1891: 164 .

One syntype is deposited in NMPC (ex coll. Nickerl).

SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Helfer [hw Kuwert] // Passal. / Tenass. [hw Nickerl, white label, red margin] // Tenasser. / Helfer [hw Nickerl, yellow label] // Basilianus / interrogation. / Kuwert typ / 53 [hw Nickerl] // Basilianus / interrogati- / onis Kuw. [hw Nickerl, yellow label] // Coll. Nickerl / Mus. Pragense [p] // TYPUS [p, red label, black margin] // interrogationis / Kuw. / syntype revised [hw] / S. Boucher det. [p] 13 [hw]’.

Current status. Junior subjective synonym of Ophrygonius cantori (Percheron, 1844) , see e.g. HINCKS & DIBB (1935).

Remark. The locality of the syntype does not agree exactly with the original type locality, which is ‘Sikkim’. However, we follow the same principle as in the previous species, A. hirsutus . The specimen in NMPC belongs to the same species as specimens in Kuwert’s collection. All of them have the length as in the original description, and certainly they came from the same series as the specimen from ‘Helfer’ in the Kuwert’s collection.