Legna rufa (Lacordaire, 1857) SDI

Legna rufa (Lacordaire, 1857) SDI

Plectrosternus rufus Lacordaire, 1857: 228 (original description; type locality: Indes-Orientales); Candèze, 1863: 493 (distributional record; India: Assam); Gemminger & Harold, 1869: 1603 (catalogue; “ India or.”); Candèze, 1890: clvi (distributional record; India: Jharkhand); Candèze, 1891: 214 (catalogue; “Indes orient.”); Candèze, 1892: 495 (distributional record; India: Jharkhand); Candèze, 1893: 179 (distributional remark; India: Kanara = Karavali, Karnataka); Schwarz, 1907: 304 (listed as Plectosternus [sic], unavailable genus name, incorrect subsequent spelling of Plectrosternus not in prevailing usage- ICZN 1999: Art. 33.3; catalogue; “Ost-Indien”); Schenkling, 1927: 503 (catalogue; India: “ Assam ”); Fleutiaux, 1933: 16 (distributional record; India: Karnataka); Ȏhira, 1971: 209 (distributional records; India: Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh); Mukhopadhyay & Chakraborty, 2003: 229 (distributional record; India: Sikkim); Chakraborty & Chakrabarti, 2006: 93, 94 (distributional record; India: West Bengal); Patwardhan & Athalye, 2012a: 53 ( India: Karnataka); Gupta et al., 2018: 502 (catalogue; “2C” as India: Sikkim, Darjeeling District).

Legna rufa (Lacordaire, 1857) : Kundrata et al., 2019a: 123 (transferred to Legna View in CoL ).

Type Locality. East India * [Indes Orientales] .

Type Depository. Type, SU (??).

Distribution in India. Assam **, Jharkhand (Gumla District), Karnataka (Karavali Stretch, Kodagu District), Kerala (Travancore Region), Sikkim **, Tamil Nadu (Travancore Region), Uttar Pradesh (Barabanki District), West Bengal (Alipurduar District, Darjeeling District).

General Distribution. Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Taiwan (Formosa) ( Ôhira 1971; Cate 2007).

Remark. Although Patwardhan & Athalye (2012a: 53) referred to a specimen of this species in NHML as the ‘Type’, the specimen’s data labels do not bear a type label. Furthermore, the type is not listed in NHML’s official records (as per the list shared by M. Barclay and M. Geiser). Therefore, the type depository remains unknown. Non-type specimens are deposited in HNHM from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Uttar Pradesh, and in ZSI from West Bengal. Based on the information provided by Candèze (1890: cxlvi), Candèze (1892: 481), Hayek (1973: 273), and Parekar et al. (2024: 57), the locality is added as Jharkhand. Konbir is a village in the Gumla district of Jharkhand. As the presence of this species in Sikkim requires confirmation, this locality is not included here.