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

description: Contacyphon variegatus (Sharp, 1882)
(Fig. 12E)
Cyphon variegatus Sharp 1882: 87. Broun 1893: 1145 (reprinted excerpt of Sharp 1882). Pic 1914: 37 (catalogue). Nyholm 2000: 62 (prehensor and bursella illustrated). Macfarlane et al. 2011: 420 (catalogue). Contacyphon variegatus: Zwick et al. 2013: 347.
Type locality. Greymouth.
Broun number: 2033.
Type material examined. 18 exx. Lectotype & 2 paralectotypes (NHM, here validated): 3 specimens mounted on a single card, 2 ♂♂ and 1 ♀, 1 ♂ marked with x, “Types D. S. \ Cyphon variegatus. \ Greymouth. 1881. Helms.” [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand], “LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “TYPE \ H. T.” [round label with red border], “Greymouth, [red underline]\ New Zealand. \ (Helms)”, “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.”, “X Lectotype \ Cyphon variegatus \ Sharp \ det. T. Nyhom 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand], “Paralectotypes \ Cyphon variegatus \ Sharp \ det. T. Nyhom 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand]. Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, “ Cyphon \ variegatus \ var. \ D. S. \ Greymouth” [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand], “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “Greymouth, \ New Zealand. \ (Helms)”, “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.” Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, “ Cyphon ♂ \ variegatus \ var. \ D. S. \ Greymouth” [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand], “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “Greymouth, \ New Zealand. \ (Helms)”, “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.”, “Paralectotype \ Cyphon variegatus \ Sharp \ det. T. Nyhom 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand]. Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): cardmounted, “ Cyphon \ variegatus \ D. S. \ Greymouth” [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand], “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “Greymouth, \ New Zealand. \ (Helms)”, “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.”, “Paralectotype \ Cyphon variegatus \ Sharp \ det. T. Nyhom 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand]. Paralectotypes (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, 2 ♂♂ mounted on the same card, “ Cyphon variegatus \ Int. typ. D. S. \ Greymouth. Helms 1881.” [written at base of card in Sharp’s hand], “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “Greymouth, \ New Zealand. \ (Helms)”, “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.”, “Paralectotypes \ Cyphon variegatus \ Sharp \ det. T. Nyhom 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand]. Paralectotypes (NHM, here validated): 2 specimens mounted on a single card, “Greymouth N. Z d.” [handwritten on card], “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “Greymouth, \ New Zealand. [red underline]\ (Helms)”, “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.”, “Paralectotypes \ Cyphon variegatus \ Sharp \ det. T. Nyhom 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand]. Paralectotype (NHM): card-mounted, “Greymouth \ N. Z d. Helms” [handwritten on card], “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “Greymouth, \ New Zealand. \ (Helms)”, “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.”, “Paralectotypes \ Cyphon variegatus \ Sharp \ det. T. Nyhom 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand]. Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, “♀ \ Greymouth. N.” [handwritten on card], “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “Greymouth, \ New Zealand. \ (Helms)”, “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.”, “Paralectotype \ Cyphon variegatus \ Sharp \ det. T. Nyhom 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand]. Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “Greymouth, \ New Zealand. \ (Helms)”, “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.”, “Paralectotype \ Cyphon variegatus \ Sharp \ det. T. Nyhom 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand]. Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): cardmounted, same label data as above. Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, genitalia mounted on glass slide pinned together with the specimen, same label data as above. Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, same label data as above. Paralectotype (NHM): card-mounted, same label data as above. Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, genitalia mounted on glass slide pinned together with the specimen, “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “Greymouth, \ New Zealand. \ (Helms)”, “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.”, “Paralectotype \ Cyphon variegatus \ Sharp \ det. T. Nyhom 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand]. Paralectotype (NHM, here validated): card-mounted, “outh. N.Z d.” [handwritten on card], “PARA- \ LECTO- \ TYPE” [round label with blue border], “Greymouth, \ New Zealand. \ (Helms)”, “Sharp Coll \ 1905-313.”, “Paralectotype \ Cyphon variegatus \ Sharp \ det. T. Nyhom 1981” [in Nyholm’s hand].
Remarks. There are no details on the number of specimens in the original description, but remarks on variability suggest that Sharp examined numerous specimens, all collected from Greymouth (Sharp 1882).
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 51-52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4366.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1125265