Contacyphon waikatoensis
Creators: name: Kiałka, Agata
name: Ruta, Rafał
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scirtidae
Contacyphon
Contacyphon waikatoensis

description: Contacyphon waikatoensis (Broun, 1886)
(Fig. 12G)
Cyphon waikatoensis Broun 1886: 838. Pic 1914: 37 (catalogue). Macfarlane et al. 2011: 420 (catalogue). Contacyphon waikatoensis: Zwick et al. 2013: 347.
Type locality. Ngaruawahia.
Broun number: 1491.
Type material examined. 6 exx. Lectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, genitalia mounted on glass slide pinned together with the specimen, “LECTO- \ TYPE ” [round label with blue border], “1491.” [in Broun’s hand], “ Waikato. ” [in Broun’s hand], “Ngaruawahia” [in Broun’s hand], “ New Zealand. [red underline] \ Broun Coll. \ Brit. Mus. \ 1922-482.”, “ Lectotype \ Cyphon waikato- \ ensis Broun \ det. T. Nyholm 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand]. Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, genitalia mounted on glass slide pinned together with the specimen, “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE ” [round label with blue border], “1491.” [in Nyholm’s hand], “ Waikato.” [in Nyholm’s hand], “ Ngaruawahia ” [in Nyholm’s hand], “ New Zealand. [red underline] \ Broun Coll. \ Brit. Mus.
\ 1922-482.” [in Nyholm’s hand], “Paralectotype \ Cyphon waikato- \ ensis Broun \ det. T. Nyholm 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand], “ Cyphon graniger \ Sharp \ det. T. Nyholm 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand]. Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, genitalia mounted on glass slide pinned together with the specimen, “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “1491.” [in Broun’s hand], “Ngaruaw.” [in Broun’s hand], “New Zealand. [red underline] \ Broun Coll. \ Brit. Mus. \ 1922-482.” [handwritten], “Paralectotype ♂ \ Cyphon waikatoensis \ Broun \ det. T. Nyholm 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand]. Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, genitalia mounted on glass slide pinned together with the specimen, “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “1491.” [in Nyholm’s hand], “Waikatos.” [in Nyholm’s hand], “Ngaruawahia” [in Nyholm’s hand], “New Zealand. [red underline] \ Broun Coll. \ Brit. Mus. \ 1922-482.” [in Nyholm’s hand], “Paralectotype ♀ \ Cyphon waikato- \ ensis Broun \ det. T. Nyholm 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand]. Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): cardmounted, genitalia mounted on glass slide pinned together with the specimen, “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “1491.” [in Broun’s hand], “Waikatos.” [in Broun’s hand], “New Zealand. [red underline] \ Broun Coll. \ Brit. Mus. \ 1922-482.” [handwritten], “Paralectotype \ Cyphon waikato- \ ensis Broun \ det. T. Nyholm 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand]. Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, genitalia mounted on glass slide pinned together with the specimen, “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “1491.” [in Nyholm’s hand], “Ngaruaw.” [in Nyholm’s hand], “New Zealand. [red underline] \ Broun Coll. \ Brit. Mus. \ 1922-482.” [in Nyholm’s hand], “Paralectotype ♂ \ Cyphon waikatoensis \ Broun \ det. T. Nyholm 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand].
Remarks. Broun (1886) described the species from an unknown number of specimens collected on Leptospermum at Ngaruawahia, Waikato.
description: Published as part of Kiałka, Agata & Ruta, Rafał, 2017, An illustrated catalogue of the New Zealand marsh beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae), pp. 1-76 in Zootaxa 4366 (1) on pages 52-53, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4366.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1125265