Gnorimus subcostatus ( Ménétriés, 1832 )

Akhmetova, Lilia A. & Frolov, Andrey V., 2025, Name-bearing type specimens in the collection of Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences: tribes Osmodermatini Schenkling, Trichiini Fleming, and Valgini Mulsant (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae), Zootaxa 5692 (1), pp. 195-199 : 197

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5692.1.11

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17320892

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scientific name

Gnorimus subcostatus ( Ménétriés, 1832 )
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Gnorimus subcostatus ( Ménétriés, 1832) View in CoL

Figs. 11–15 View FIGURES 11–20

Trichius subcostatus Ménétriés, 1832: 188 View in CoL .

Name-bearing type material. Lectotype (hereby designated), female ( Figs. 11–14 View FIGURES 11–20 ), labeled: “6429 subcostatus Menets trans cauc. [Ménétriés, Transcaucasus; Ménétriés’ handwritting] / Ms. Talysch [ Azerbaijan, Talysh Mountains ) 6429- 1. / Lectotypus Trichius subcostatus Mén. design. Akhm. et Frol. 25 / Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_COL_ 0001427”.

Additional type material. Paralectotype, female, labeled: “ Ms. Talysch 6429-2. / Paralectotypus Trichius subcostatus Mén. design. Akhm. et Frol. 25 / Zoological Institute St. Petersburg INS_COL_0001428” .

Taxonomic status. Valid species name.

Remarks. From the brief diagnosis of G. subcostatus , it is unclear how many specimens did Ménétriés examine. However, the size range provided and the note that the species is “very common on hawthorn and rosehip flowers” suggest that a number of specimens was examined. In the ZIN collection, there are two specimens bearing small labels with 4- digit numbers, a number 1 or 2 and additional data “Ms. Talysch”. One of these specimens also bears a handwritten label by Ménétriés. There was no practice in Ménétriés’ time to label each specimen; the specimens were just pinned next to a bottom label (“6429 subcostatus Menets trans cauc.” in this case). It was apparently Morawitz, who became the curator after Ménétriés, and who put small labels with 4-digit numbers. There are no records found explaining what the 4-digit numbers mean exactly, but apparently 4-digit number corresponds to a species in the collection and the number after a hyphen – to a specimen. There is no doubt that the both specimens belong to the series from which Ménétriés described G. subcostatus and should be considered syntypes. To ensure stability of the nomenclature, the specimen bearing the original Ménétriés’ label and illustrated in Figs. 11–14 View FIGURES 11–20 is designated the lectotype.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Scarabaeidae

Genus

Gnorimus

Loc

Gnorimus subcostatus ( Ménétriés, 1832 )

Akhmetova, Lilia A. & Frolov, Andrey V. 2025
2025
Loc

Trichius subcostatus Ménétriés, 1832: 188

Menetries, E. 1832: 188
1832
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