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

description: Contacyphon parviceps (Sharp, 1878)
(Fig. 11D)
Cyphon parviceps Sharp 1878: 52. Broun 1880: 320 (reprinted excerpt of Sharp 1878). Pic 1914: 34 (catalogue). Macfarlane et al. 2011: 420 (catalogue). Contacyphon parviceps: Zwick et al. 2013: 345.
Type locality. Auckland.
Broun number: 577.
Type material examined. 7 exx. Lectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, “ Cyphon parviceps \ Type D. S.” [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand], “LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “Type \ H. T.” [round label with red border], “Auckland \ New Zealand. [red underline]”, “Auckland Broun” [handwritten], “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.”, “Lectotype \ Cyphon parviceps \ Sharp \ det. T. Nyholm 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand]. Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, “ Cyphon parviceps \ Ind. typ. \ D. S.” [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand], “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “Auckland [red underline]\ New Zealand.”, “Auckland Broun” [handwritten], “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.”, “Paralectotype \ Cyphon parviceps \ Sharp \ det. T. Nyholm 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand]. Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, “ Cyphon parviceps \ Ind. typ. \ D. S.” [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand], “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “Auckland [red underline] \ New Zealand.”, “Auckland Broun” [handwritten], “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.”, “Paralectotype \ Cyphon parviceps \ Sharp \ det. T. Nyholm 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand]. Paralectotypes (NHM, here validated): 2 specimens (♂ & ♀) card-mounted, male genitalia mounted on glass slide pinned together with the specimen, “ Cyphon parviceps \ Ind. typ. D. S.” [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand], “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “Auckland [red underline] \ New Zealand.”, “Auckland Broun” [handwritten], “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.”, “Paralectotypes \ Cyphon parviceps \ Sharp \ det. T. Nyholm 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand]. Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, “ Cyphon parviceps \ Ind. typ. D. S.” [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand], “Tairua [red underline] \ New Zealand. \ Broun”, “Tairua Broun” [handwritten], “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.” Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, “ Cyphon parviceps \ Ind. typ. \ D. S.” [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand], “Tairua [red underline] \ New Zealand. \ Broun”, “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.” Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, genitalia mounted on glass slide pinned together with the specimen, “ Cyphon parviceps \ Ind. typ. \ D. S.” [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand], “Tairua [red underline] \ New Zealand. \ Broun”, “Tairua Broun” [handwritten], “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.”, “n. sp. \ not C. parviceps \ Sharp \ det. T. Nyholm 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand].
Remarks. T. Broun sent several specimens collected in Auckland to D. Sharp (Sharp 1878).
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 43-44, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4366.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1125265