Linurgus elgonensis van Someren

Linurgus elgonensis van Someren, 1918b: 283 (forests on Elgon).

Now Linurgus olivaceus elgonensis van Someren, 1918 . See Hartert, 1928: 199; Howell et al., 1968: 282; Fry and Keith, 2004: 531–533; ArnaizVillena and Moscoso, 2007: 826–834; and Clement, 2010: 541.

LECTOTYPE: AMNH 714358, adult male, collected on Mount Elgon, ca. 01.08N, 34.33E (Polhill, 1988), Kenya / Uganda border, on 16 November 1916. From the V.G.L. van Someren Collection via the Rothschild Collection.

COMMENTS: In the original description, van Someren did not designate a type but noted that he had three male and two female specimens. Van Someren (1922: 156) later mentioned that the type was in the Rothschild Collection without giving further information; by that time he had acquired an additional male, but only the three cited in the original description were part of his type series. Hartert (1928: 199) listed the male collected on 16 November 1916 as the type, thereby designating it the lectotype. This specimen, now AMNH 714358, is marked on the original label ‘‘TYPE Linurus elgonensis vS’’ and bears a Rothschild type label. No paralectotypes of elgonensis came to AMNH.