Mispila ( s. str. ) obscura Gahan, 1890

Xie, Guanglin, Barclay, Maxwell V. L. & Wang, Wenkai, 2023, The collection of the genus Mispila Pascoe, 1864 housed in the Natural History Museum, London (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae), Zootaxa 5352 (2), pp. 245-265 : 252

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5352.2.6
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8407253
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scientific name	Mispila ( s. str. ) obscura Gahan, 1890
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Mispila ( s. str.) obscura Gahan, 1890 View in CoL

( Figure 5 View FIGURE 5 )

Mispila obscura Gahan, 1890: 62 View in CoL ; Kariyanna et al., 2017: 193.

Mispila ( Mispila) obscura: Aurivillius, 1922: 275 View in CoL ; Breuning, 1961a: 281; Breuning, 1963b: 477.

Alidus madurensis Pic, 1925: 25 View in CoL .

Type material examined. India. Lectotype, female (here designated, Figure 5a–d View FIGURE 5 ): ‘ Type [p, label circular, red framed]; Nilgiri Hills. / G. F. Hampson. / 94–89. [p]; Mispila / obscura / Gahan / Type [h]; NHMUK014596487 About NHMUK ’; Paralectotype, 1 male (here indicated, Figure 5e–h View FIGURE 5 ): ‘ Nilgiri Hills. / G. F. Hampson. / 94–89. [p]; m. obscura [h]; NHMUK014596465 About NHMUK ’.

Non-type material examined. India: 1 female: ‘ Nilgiri Hills / H. L. Andrewes [p]; Andrewes Bequest / B. M. 1922–221. [p]; Mispila obscura Gah. , [h] / Breuning det. [p]’; 1 female: ‘ Nilgiri Hills / H. L. Andrewes [p]; Andrewes Bequest / B. M. 1922–221. [p]; Mispila obscura Gah. [h] / det. Breuning [p]’.

Comments. Two syntypes were confirmed in the collection. Herein we designated the female specimen as the lectotype, which has been labelled with a handwritten identification label marked with ‘Type’.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Cerambycidae
Genus	Mispila