Lomaptera dichropus viridipes Moser, 1908

Vitali, Francesco, 2019, Catalogue of the types of the Scarabaeidae in the National Museum of Natural History of Luxembourg (Coleoptera), ZooKeys 814, pp. 95-114 : 106-108

Lomaptera dichropus viridipes Moser, 1908 Figure 13

Lomaptera dichropus viridipes Moser, 1908: 88 (type locality: "Deutsche Neu-Guinea, Huon-Golf").

Syntypes.

D[eutsche] Neu-Guinea / Sialum [handwritten] // Lomaptera / dichropus Lsbg. / subsp. viridipes Moser / Cotype [handwritten by Moser] // Donateur 1306a / J. Moser, / Berlin III.1917 // 3593, 1♂; ditto, Donateur 1306b / J. Moser, / Berlin III.1917 // 3594, 1♀; ditto, Donateur 1306c / J. Moser, / Berlin III.1917 // 3595, 1♀; ditto, Donateur 1306d / J. Moser, / Berlin III.1917 // 3596, 1♀.

Remarks.

The species was described from an unknown number of specimens measuring from 21 to 25 mm. The type locality “Huon-Golf” (currently, Huon Gulf) is the large gulf in eastern Papua New Guinea belonging to Marobe Province. However, Sialum (at one time, Helena-Hafen) is located at north of the Huon peninsula, beyond that gulf.

Current status.

Rigout and Allard (1997: 88) treated L. d. viridipes as a variety of Lomaptera helleriana Valck Lucassen, 1961 without explanation. However, De Jong (1970: 266) and Carter et al. (2016: 6) treated it as Lomaptera viridipes Moser, 1908.