Phyllobaenus chalybeatus (Gorham, 1883: 170)

Leavengood, John M. & Garner, Beulah H., 2014, Nomenclatural notes on some checkered beetle (Coleoptera: Cleridae) types of the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH), Zootaxa 3760 (3), pp. 301-335 : 305

Phyllobaenus chalybeatus (Gorham, 1883: 170)

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Original combination. Hydnocera chalybeata

Types. Gorham referred to seven specimens in his description (which I consider to represent the complete type series). All have been accounted.

Series locality. Calderas, San Gerónimo and Capetillo, Guatemala and Playa Vicente, Mexico.

Type locality. Playa Vicente, Mexico.

LECTOTYPE (here designated): Type [round, red-bordered label]; Playa Vicente, Mexico, Hoege, Hydnocera chalybeata Gorham , Type, B. C. A. Col. III. (2). Hydnocera chalybeata Gorham ( BMNH; 1). PARALECTOTYPES: Mexico, Salle Coll; B. C. A. Col. III. (2). Hydnocera chalybeata Gorham ( BMNH; 2); Calderas, Guatemala, Champion, Hydnocera chalybeata Gorham, B. C. A. Col. III. (2). Hydnocera chalybeata Gorham ( BMNH; 1); Calderas, Guatemala, Champion, Hydnocera chalybeata Gorham , Museum Paris Coll Gorham 1914 [blue label], Museum Paris ex. Coll. R. Oberthur [blue label] ( MNHN; 1); S. Geronimo, Guatemala, Champion, Hydnocera chalybeata Gorham , Museum Paris Coll Gorham 1914 [blue label], Museum Paris ex. Coll. R. Oberthur [blue label] ( MNHN; 1); Capetillo, Guatemala, G. C. Champion, Museum Paris Coll Gorham 1914 [blue label], Museum Paris ex. Coll. R. Oberthur [blue label] ( MNHN; 1).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 6. Fig. 1) Phyllobaenus aeneicollis (Schenkling), Lectotype (BMNH); Fig. 2) P. chalybeatus (Gorham), Lectotype (BMNH); Fig. 3) P. clavatus (Gorham), Lectotype (BMNH); Fig. 4) P. haematicus (Gorham), Lectotype (BMNH); Fig. 5) P. haematicus (Gorham), Paralectotype (BMNH), actually P. gorhami (Wolcott); Fig. 6) P. nigroaeneus (Gorham), Lectotype (BMNH).