Sypilus venturae Dohrn, 1882

Pirkl, Jiří, Santos-Silva, Antonio & Casari, Sônia A., 2019, On the type depository of some species of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera), especially of the holotype of Quercivir dohrni Lameere, 1912, Zootaxa 4603 (3), pp. 520-536 : 521

Sypilus venturae Dohrn, 1882 (= Sypilus orbignyi Guérin-Méneville, 1840 )

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Sypilus venturae Dohrn, 1882: 465 ; Monné, 2018c: 189 (cat.; in syn.).

Described based on a single specimen from Argentina (Mendoza). Berg (1883) synonymized S. venturae with S. orbignyi (translated): “I especially mention these wide distributional districts, because often one and the same species, or varieties of a species, which originated from Mendoza and Patagonia, are set up as new species because of the widely scattered localities. Even the species of our revered President, Sypilus Venturae, I suspect is only a variety of S. Orbignyi Guér.” Thus, Berg (1883) did not formalize the synonymy, as usually has been recorded. Furthermore, Dohrn (1883) not only keep the species as valid, but also corrected the type locality (translated): “It has already been designated by Professor Berg, p. 392, as a candidate for death, so that I can bury him without conscience in the ocean of synonymy. But I have received a second specimen from the same source, from the Argentine Mendoza, and it is precisely this second specimen that brings the former to its specific value. For, first, it is smaller and slimmer than the latter, so it refutes the reasons that arise from the stature, but second, the sender now gives me a correction of the locality. Not both from Mendoza but from Chacabuco in the province of Buenos Aires, both specimens were found. The antennae and legs of the second smaller specimen are not so blackish brown, but brighter than those of the one sent earlier, but they do not show the yellowish-green color of these parts of the body remotely, as they do on the plate in Plate 20, fig. 1 in Voyage de d’Orbigny.” Dias (1986) pointed out the correction of the type locality from Dohrn (1883). It was Lameere (1902b) who formalized the synonymy between S. venturae and S. orbignyi .

Monné (2018c) and Tavakilian & Chevillotte (2018) reported the holotype being deposited in the CMSP collection. However, the specimen currently is in ZMPA collection.

Figures

FIGURES 1–8. Sypilus venturae, holotype male: 1) Dorsal habitus; 2) Ventral habitus; 3) Lateral habitus; 4) Labels. Prionapterus woltersi, lectotype male: 5) Dorsal habitus; 6) Ventral habitus; 7) Lateral habitus; 8) Labels.