Tesserodon intricatus Lea, 1923

Cupello, Mario, Bouchard, Patrice, Hart, Maximillian & Barclay, Maxwell V. L., 2025, The nomenclature of the Australasian dung beetle genera Mentophilus Castelnau, 1840 and Tesserodon Hope, 1837 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae), Zootaxa 5659 (4), pp. 483-510 : 500

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5659.4.2
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scientific name	Tesserodon intricatus Lea, 1923
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Tesserodon intricatus Lea, 1923 View in CoL

Tesserodon intricatus Lea, 1923: 357–358 View in CoL .

Name-bearing type: Male holotype by original designation in the South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia ( Lea 1923; Matthews 1974). Type locality: Groote Eylandt Island, off the eastern coast of the Northern Territory, Australia ( Lea 1923; Matthews 1974).

Remarks: Lea (1923) clearly examined more than one specimen for the original description, as he described both sexes and gave a length range (“Length, 5.5–6 mm ”). We have a holotype by original designation, however, instead of a series of syntypes, because he indicated one of these specimens as the “Type”, in the singular, the specimen under number “I. 15426”, so fulfilling the requirements for original holotype designation as established by Article 73.1.1. Matthews (1974) found the specimen in the South Australian Museum, to which Lea’s collection had been bequeathed following his death in 1932 ( Horn et al. 1990b).

Distribution: Northern Northern Territory, Australia ( Lea 1923; Matthews 1974; Storey 1991; Atlas of Living Australia 2024).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Scarabaeidae
SubFamily	Scarabaeinae
Genus	Tesserodon