Contacyphon viridipennis (Broun, 1880)

Kiałka, Agata & Ruta, Rafał, 2017, An illustrated catalogue of the New Zealand marsh beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae), Zootaxa 4366 (1), pp. 1-76 : 52

Contacyphon viridipennis (Broun, 1880)

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Cyphon viridipenne Broun 1880: 322 . Pic 1914: 37 (catalogue). Macfarlane et al. 2011: 420 (catalogue). Contacyphon viridipennis: Zwick et al. 2013: 347 .

Type locality. Parua.

Broun number: 583.

Type material examined. 1 ex. Holotype (HNM), card-mounted, genitalia mounted on glass slide pinned together with the specimen, “Holo- \ type” [round label with red border], “583” [handwritten], “Parua. \ Whangarei.“ [in Broun’s hand], New Zealand. [red underline] \ Broun Coll. \ Brit. Mus. \ 1922-482.”, “ Cyphon \ viridipennis ” [in Broun’s hand], “Holotype \ Cyphon viridipennis \ Broun \ det. T. Nyholm 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand].

Remarks. Broun (1880) studied a single specimen of this species, collected from Parua near Whangarei Harbour. According to Nyholm (2000) this species belongs to an undescribed genus.

Figures

FIGURE 12. Primary type specimens of New Zealand Scirtidae. A) Lectotype, Contacyphon remotus (Broun, 1883); B) Lectotype, Contacyphon suffusus (Sharp, 1878); C) Holotype, Contacyphon suturalis (Broun, 1883); D) Lectotype, Contacyphon trivialis (Broun, 1886); E) Paralectotype, Contacyphon variegatus (Sharp, 1882); F) Holotype, Contacyphon viridipennis (Broun, 1880); G) Lectotype, Contacyphon waikatoensis (Broun, 1886); H) Lectotype, Contacyphon zealandicus (Sharp, 1878); I) Syntype, Cyphanodes vestitus Broun, 1893; J) Holotype, Cyphanus capax Broun, 1880; K) Holotype, Cyphanus debilis Sharp, 1878; L) Syntype, Cyphanus dubius Broun, 1893.Scale bar = 1 mm.