Holotrichia burmeisteri Brenske 1892
Creators: name: Allsopp, Peter G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Holotrichia
Holotrichia burmeisteri

description: Holotrichia burmeisteri Brenske, 1892
Although Holotrichia Hope, 1837 is a well-used name, it is a junior synonym of Ancylonycha Dejean, 1833, and an application to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature is needed to conserve Holotrichia as the valid name (Bousquet & Bouchard 2013; Allsopp & Schoolmeesters 2024).
Brenske (1892) described Holotrichia burmeisteri Brenske, 1892 from specimens labelled Philippines, Palau and Austrl. (which he presumed to be Australia). He highlighted three specimens but probably saw more; no holotype was designated. ZMB holds six specimens (Figs 2 – 7), five males and one of unknown gender, all of which were labelled as syntypes in 2007. Five are labelled as from Brenske’s collection (three as “cotypes” and two as “types”), and one from Schaufuss’ collection (labelled “Type”). All bear identification labels in Brenske’s handwriting (compare Figs 2–7 with Horn & Kahle (1935 –37, tafel III, fig. 6)). To stabilise the nomenclature, I here designate a lectotype and have labelled it and the paralectotypes.
Type series. Lectotype ♂ (here designated) (Fig. 2): Aedeagus and spiculum gastrale dissected out and mounted on card with one set of tarsomeres; Hist.-Coll. Coleoptera Nr. 100783 Holotrichia burmeisteri Brenske Philippinen. Coll. Schaufuss Zool. Mus. Berlin [printed, yellow label] | 100783 [printed] | Schaufuss [printed] | Type [printed, faded red label] | A 40 Tus Philippen [handwritten] | Burmeisteri Brenske Philippinen [handwritten] | Holotrichia (subg burmeisteri m. [handwritten] | SYNTYPUS Holotrichia burmeisteri Brenske, 1892 labelled by MNHUB 2007 [printed, red label] | MfN URI http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/09eb4f [printed with QR code]; in ZMB.
Paralectotypes (Figs 3–7): 1♂, aedeagus and spiculum gastrale dissected out and mounted on card; Burmeisteri Brsk [handwritten] | Philippin coll. [illegible word] [handwritten] | Coll. Brenske [printed, black border] | SYNTYPUS Holotrichia burmeisteri Brenske, 1892 labelled by MNHUB 2007 [printed, red label] | MfN URI http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/09fcc3 [printed with QR code]; 1♂, Philippin [handwritten] | Coll. Brenske [printed, black border] | Burmeisteri cotyp. Brsk [handwritten]; Burmeisteri Brsk [handwritten]; SYNTYPUS Holotrichia burmeisteri Brenske, 1892 labelled by MNHUB 2007 [printed, red label] | MfN URI http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/09c3ee [printed with QR code]; 1♂, Burmeisteri typ. Brsk [handwritten] | Philippin coll. [illegible word] [handwritten] | Coll. Brenske [printed, black border] | SYNTYPUS Holotrichia burmeisteri Brenske, 1892 labelled by MNHUB 2007 [printed, red label] | MfN URI http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/09ed20 [printed with QR code]; 1♂, Palau Ins. Coll. Felsche [handwritten] | Burmeisteri cotyp. Brsk [handwritten] | Coll. Brenske [printed, black border] | SYNTYPUS Holotrichia burmeisteri Brenske, 1892 labelled by MNHUB 2007 [printed, red label] | MfN URI http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/09fe5b [printed with QR code]; 1♂, Aedeagus and spiculum gastrale dissected out and mounted on card; Austrl. [printed] | Burmeisteri cotyp Brsk [handwritten] | Coll. Brenske [printed, black border] | SYNTYPUS Holotrichia burmeisteri Brenske, 1892 labelled by MNHUB 2007 [printed, red label] | MfN URI http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/0a0b80 [printed with QR code]; all in ZMB.
Brenske (1892) and Matsumoto (2008) thought that the presumed Australian record (labelled as “Austrl.”, Fig. 7) was doubtful. No specimens of H. burmeisteri were recorded by Britton (1978) in his comprehensive revision of the Australian Melolonthini, with the only record of Holotrichia spp. being a single, damaged, presumably transported specimen of H. serrata (Fabricius, 1781) by Blackburn (1890) [as Neolepidiota obscura Blackburn, 1890]. No further specimens of H. burmeisteri are known from the Philippines and the location was more recently considered doubtful by Matsumoto (2008). Brenske’s record presumably refers to when Spain administered the Caroline Islands as Nuevas Filipinas. Matsumoto (2008) concluded that the type series came from Palau.
description: Published as part of Allsopp, Peter G., 2025, Holotrichia burmeisteri Brenske, 1892 and allies (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae: Rhizotrogini): a tale of four genera and four countries, pp. 166-178 in Zootaxa 5631 (1) on pages 167-169, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5631.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/15326977