Solervicensia Barr, 1979

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Genus Solervicensia Barr

Solervicensia ovata (Spinola) : Two synonyms of this native species of southern South America were described by Maurice Pic from Australia: Korynetes nigrosignatus Pic, 1941 , synonymised with S. ovata above; and Labasiella duboulayi Pic, 1950 , synonymised with S. ovata by Solervicens (2001) who supposed that the published type locality ‘Swan River’ must correspond with a labelling error. It could, however, be possible that the error relates more to interpretation of the label as there is a Rio Cisnes (i.e., Swan River) in the Aysén Province of Chile (Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region), within the documented range of S. ovata ( Solervicens 2001) . The association of the specimen with Francis Houssemayne du Boulay, an English collector who immigrated to Western Australia in the late 1850’s, cannot be explained, but the L. duboulayi type specimen ( Fig. 5 , examined by the author) is definitely a specimen of S. ovata , a species not represented by a single specimen confirmed as having been collected in Australia.

Distribution: Chile and Argentina ( Solervicens 2001).

Status: Non-native and absent in Australia (probable erroneous Australian type localities of synonyms; no Australian specimens known) .

Figures

FIGURES 1–8. (1) Syntype specimen of Chalciclerus pantomelas Boisduval (MNHN); (2) specimen of Balcus violaceus (Fabricius) erroneously labelled as a type specimen of Chalciclerus pantomelas Boisduval (MNHN); (3) specimen of Thallis janthina Erichson (Erotylidae) (SDEI) misidentified by Sigmund Schenkling as Korynetes abdominalis (Fabricius); (4) syntype specimen of Corynetes unicolor Chevrolat, 1876 (MNHN), a synonym of Korynetes coeruleus (De Geer); (5) syntype specimen of Labasiella duboulayi Pic, 1950 (MNHN), a synonym of Solervicensia ovata (Spinola); (6) syntype specimen of Elasmocerus picticollis Blackburn, 1901 (NHML), a synonym of Monophylla terminata (Say).