Lampyris brutia, A. Costa, 1881

Fanti, Fabrizio & Improta, Roberta, 2020, The Lampyridae of the Achille Costa’s (1823 - 1898) collection, preserved at the Zoological Museum of Naples (Italy), Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 20 (1), pp. 7-14 : 9-11

Lampyris brutia (six specimens): ( Figs. 3 A-4A)

“ Lampyris // brutia m [written in pencil]// Calabria ” “ Cirò ” “M.° Zool.° N.° 22608” ( Fig. 3B ) NOTE: 1 female. It is Lampyris brutia A. Costa, 1881 .

Geisthardt (1987) designated the Lectotype of this species based on a male specimen from the Ernest Olivier collection preserved in the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, which Costa himself had sent to Olivier for study ( Olivier 1884 [“plusieurs exemplaires male symbol et female symbol. Type male symbol / female symbol !!”]).

Geisthardt , however, had not sought and was not interested ( ICZN 1999 Recommendation 74D.) in the Achille Costa collection of the Zoological Museum of Naples , where six other specimens of the typical series are still preserved, with original labels “Cirò” (which is the type locality. Geisthardt’s Lectotype does not report localities), including probably the female illustrated in the original work (see: ICZN 1999 Recommendation 74B.). These specimens present in the Costa collection, after the designation of the Lectotype made by Geisthardt, automatically became Paralectotypes ( ICZN 1999 Art. 74.1.3.). Therefore, to each specimen, we add (which has not been done previously) a red card with typewritten “ Paralectotypus ” ( ICZN 1999 Recommendation 74F.) to facilitate future finds.

N.° of card: 15A.

[without label]

NOTE: 1 male. It is Lampyris brutia A. Costa, 1881 .

N.° of card: 16A.

[without label]

NOTE: 1 female. It is Lampyris brutia A. Costa, 1881 .

N.° of card: 17.

“Cirò” ( Fig. 4B )

NOTE: 1 female. It is Lampyris brutia A. Costa, 1881 .

N.° of card: 18.

[without label]

NOTE: 1 female. It is Lampyris brutia A. Costa, 1881 .

N.° of card: 19.

Figures

Fig. 3. Achille Costa Collection (Zoological Museum of Na- ples).A: Paralectotypus, habitus; B: Paralectotypus, original label.

Fig. 4. Achille Costa Collection (Zoological Museum of Naples). A: Paralectotypi, habitus; B: Paralectotypus (card number: 18), original label.