Matrona kricheldorffi Karsch, 1892

Mélanie Turiault, 2016, The type material of Calopterygidae in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (Odonata), Odonatologica 45 (1), pp. 95-106 : 99-100

Original combination: Matrona kricheldorffi Karsch, 1892

Status: available species-group name, junior synonym

Current combination: Matrona basilaris Selys, 1853

Type material. One male ( Figs2 , 3 ), one female ( Fig.4 ); collecting locality: Mount Emei (Emei Shan), Sichuan province, China; collector: Franz Kricheldorff

Verbatim label data male 4a9514: (1) »6612« [printed]; (2) » Typus « [print- ed]; (3) » Matrona / kricheldorffi * Karsch« [handwritten]; (4) »Omi-shan/ Westchina / Kricheldorff S.« u/4a9514« [printed] ( Fig.3 ). [printed]; (5) »http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/

Verbatim label data female 4a9567: (1) »ad 6612« [printed]; (2) »Omishan / Westchina / Kricheldorff S.« [printed]; (3) »http://coll.mfn-berlin. de/u/4a9567« [printed].

Notes. Karsch (1892) described two specimens: » 1 ♂, 1 ♀ «, and specified the collecting locality similarly as in Echo incarnata : »Omi-shan p. Kiating, China occidentalis«. The male and female found in the Berlin collection should be considered syntypes, although the female bears no type label.

Figures

Figure 2. Matrona kricheldorffi Karsch 1892, junior synonym of Matrona basilaris Selys, 1853; male syntype in coll. MNB (♂ 4 a 9514), dorsal view.

Figure 3. Matrona kricheldorffi Karsch 1892, junior synonym of Matrona basilaris Selys, 1853; labels of male syntype in coll. MNB (♂ 4 a 9514)

Figure 4. Matrona kricheldorffi Karsch 1892, junior synonym of Matrona basilaris Selys, 1853; female syntype in coll. MNB (♀ 4 a 9567), dorsal view.