Labia ridens var. cyclolabia de Bormans, 1894

20. Labia ridens var. cyclolabia de Bormans, 1894

Original combination

Labia ridens var. cyclolabia de Bormans, 1894: 389 .

Current combination

Chaetospania bormansi Srivastava, 1981: 292–295 .

Type material Syntypes ( 1 male, 1 female; dried, on cardboard)

MYANMAR • 1 ♀ (Fig. 63); “ Carin Chebà / 900–1100. m. / L. Fea V XII-88 // var. // Birma / Leon. Fea leg. / vend. 1.1.1895. // A. de Bormans / determ. // Kotype // Paratypoide // ZMH 76589 ” • 1 ♂ (Fig. 64); “ Carin Chebà / 900–1100. m. / L. Fea V XII-88 // Birma / Leon. Fea leg. / vend. 1.1.1895. // A. de Bormans / determ. // Kotype // Paratypoide // ZMH 76590 ”

Type locality

Carin Chebà [ Myanmar].

Current status

Accepted synonym of Chaetospania bormansi Srivastava, 1981 .

Remarks

In the section where de Bormans (1894) describes Labia ridens , he also describes a variety of the same species— Labia ridens var. cyclolabia . In the first ZMH type catalogue for Dermaptera ( Weidner, 1964) , all type specimens are listed as Labia ridens . However, one specimen has a label stating “var.”. Furthermore the variety has a smaller habitus than the nominal species. Based on those two facts, we assumed that the specimens listed here actually belong to said variety.

As is often the case with type series from de Bormans, there seem to be far more specimens than listed in the original description. For Labia ridens var. cyclolabia , he lists five specimens in total. However, the Museum of Natural History “Giacomo Doria” in Genoa alone houses five type specimens ( Srivastava 1981). Since the information from the labels matches the collection data of the type specimens, the material present in the ZMH belongs to the type series as well.