Pictonorchestia dentata ( Filhol, 1885 )

Lowry, James K. & Springthorpe, Roger, 2021, Pictonorchestia, a new genus of riparian-hopper from New Zealand (Crustacea Amphipoda, Senticaudata, Talitridae), Zootaxa 4938 (3), pp. 346-350 : 347-349

Pictonorchestia dentata ( Filhol, 1885)

( Figs 1 , 2 )

Orchestia dentata Filhol, 1885: 462 , pl. 53, fig. 1.

Orchestia tucurauna . ― Chilton 1919: 376–386, text-figs 1–14.

Talorchestia dentata . ― Hurley, 1956: 385, figs 149–170.

Not Talorchestia dentata . ―Boos, Bond Buckup, Buckup, Araujo, Magalhães, Almerão, Santos, & Mantelatto, 2012: 1022 (= Talorchestia tucurauna ( Müller, 1864) .

Types. Holotype, male, MNHN-IU-2017-9151. “J’ai recueilli un seul exemplaire de cette espèce, que je crois nouvelle, sur les côtes de l’île de Kapiti” ( Filhol 1885).

Material. Slides (male), tray 45, Chilton Collection; C.5 (female). Also: C.2, (2.3, male, B1-B5, Tray 5-1, Chilton Collection (male), C 4, female, Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand, from the Waitohi Stream Estuary, Picton (originally the material used by Chilton (1919) and by Hurley (1956)).

Type locality. Shores of Kapiti Island , North Island, New Zealand .

Habitat. Marine, supralittoral.

Size. Male, 14 mm, female, 9.5 mm.

Diagnosis (male). With the characters of the genus.

Remarks. Filhol (1885) said his original material was from Rapiti Island. This has been interpreted as Kapiti Island and the species was recollected from Kapiti Island by Dr Cockayne in 1906 ( Hurley 1956).

Hurley designated hypotypes for slides (male), tray 45, Chilton Collection; C.5 (female). Also: C.2, (2.3, male, B1-B5, Tray 5-1, Chilton Collection (male), C 4, female; designated by Hurley (1956) from the Waitohi Stream Estuary, Picton (originally the material used by Chilton (1919)).

Distribution. New Zealand. North Island: Kapiti Island ( Filhol 1885). South Island: Waitohi Stream Estuary, Picton (Chilton 1916, Hurley 1956).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Pictonorchestia dentata (Filhol, 1885), Picton, New Zealand. After Hurley, 1956: 384, text-fig. 12.

FIGURE 2. Pictonorchestia dentata (Filhol, 1885), Picton, New Zealand. After Hurley, 1956: 386, text-fig. 13.