Lydus (Alosimus) tauricus Maran 1941
Creators: name: Batelka, Jan
name: Hájek, Jiří
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Meloidae
Lydus
Lydus tauricus

description: Lydus (Alosimus) tauricus Mařan, 1941   
 Lydus (Alosimus) tauricus Mařan, 1941b: 60.   
Twenty two syntypes are deposited in NMPC (general collection).  
SYNTYPE (J): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // TYPUS [p, red label with black frame] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 397 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / tauricus [hw] / 19 [p] 40 [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p] m. [hw]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // Paratypus [p, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 398 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / tauricus [hw] / 19 [p] 40 m. [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // Paratypus [p, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 399 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / tauricus [hw] / 19 [p] 40 m. [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // Paratypus [p, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 401 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / tauricus [hw] / 19 [p] 40 Mař. [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // Paratypus [p, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 402 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / 19 [p] 40 tauricus [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p] m. [hw]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // Paratypus [p, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 403 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / tauricus [hw] / 19 [p] 40 Mař. [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // Paratypus [p, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 404 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / 19 [p] 40 tauricus [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p] m. [hw]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // Paratypus [p, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 405 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / 19 [p] 40 tauricus [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p] m. [hw]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // paratypus [hw, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 406 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / 19 [p] 40. tauricus [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p] m. [hw]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // Paratypus [p, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 407 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / 19 [p] 40. tauricus [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p] m. [hw]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // paratypus [hw, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 408 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / 19 [p] 40. tauricus [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p] m. [hw]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // paratypus [hw, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 409 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / 19 [p] 40 tauricus [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p] m. [hw]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // Paratypus [p, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 410 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / 19 [p] 40 tauricus [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p] m. [hw]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // Paratypus [p, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 411 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / 19 [p] 40 tauricus [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p] m. [hw]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // Paratypus [p, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 412 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / 19 [p] 40 tauricus [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p] m. [hw]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // Paratypus [p, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 413 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / 19 [p] 40 tauricus [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p] m. [hw]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // Paratypus [p, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 414 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / 19 [p] 40 tauricus [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p] m. [hw]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // Paratypus [p, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 415 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / 19 [p] 40 tauricus [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p] m. [hw]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // Paratypus [p, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 416 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / 19 [p] 40 tauricus [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p] m. [hw]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // Paratypus [p, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 417 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / 19 [p] 40 tauricus [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p] m. [hw]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus [hw] // Paratypus [p, pink label] // Mus. Nat. Pragae / inv. [p] 418 [hw] [orange label] // Lydus / 19 [p] 40 tauricus [hw] / Dr. J. Mařan det. [p] m. [hw]’.  
SYNTYPE (unsexed specimen): ‘Mortana / Taurus / Reitter [p] // Co [hw] TYPUS [p] [red label with black frame] // Lydus / tauricus m. [hw] / Dr. Mařan det. [p]’.  
 Current status. Muzimes tauricus (Mařan, 1941), see BOLOGNA (2008).
description: Published as part of Batelka, Jan & Hájek, Jiří, 2015, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 825-858 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (2) on pages 841-842, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5302853