Cymatodera kolbei Schenkling 1907
Creators: name: Rifkind, Jacques
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cleridae
Cymatodera
Cymatodera kolbei

description: Cymatodera kolbei Schenkling, 1907:303
(Figs. 1–3)
Cymatodera kolbei Schenkling, 1907:303; loc. cit. 1908:365; Cymatodera kolbei Schenkling, 1907:303, Corporaal, 1950:50 (catalogue citation).
Schenkling established this species on the basis of three specimens, two male and one female, collected by Flohr in “ Mexiko (Tepic, Navarette).” The specimens were housed in the Berlin Königlichen Museums, although Schenkling states that one of the three was given to him. It appears that eventually all three were deposited together in the collection of the ZMBH, which loaned them for study to William F. Barr in 1972 (Bernd Jaeger personal communication). Through the courtesy of Frank Merickel, I have been able to examine these specimens, and hereby designate one male as the lectotype of the species (Fig. 1). It bears labels as follows (single slash indicates line break within a label; double slash indicates a separate label): Tepic [white; handwritten] // Mexico / J. Flohr G. [green; machine printed] // 24 [white; handwritten] // male symbol [white; handwritten] // S. Schenkling determinavit [white; machine printed] // Type [red; machine printed] // kolbei Schklg. / Mexico [green; handwritten] // LECTOTYPE / Cymatodera kolbei / Schenkling 1907 / det. J. Rifkind 2014 [red; handwritten]. I assign the two other specimens, both bearing red “ Type ” labels, as paralectotypes: 1 male specimen bearing labels as follows: Mexico / J. Flohr G. [green; machine printed] // Nayarete / 30 [white; machine printed] // 24 [white; handwritten] // male symbol [white; handwritten] // Type [red; machine printed] // S. Schenkling determinavit [white; machine printed] // Paralectotype / Cymatodera kolbei / Schenkling 1907 / det. J. Rifkind 2014 [yellow; handwritten]; 1 female specimen bearing labels as follows: Tepic [white; handwritten] // Mexico / J. Flohr G. [green; machine printed] // 24 [white; handwritten] // female symbol [white; handwritten] // S. Schenkling determinavit [white; machine printed] // Type [red; machine printed] // Paralectotype / Cymatodera kolbei / Schenkling 1907 / det. J. Rifkind 2014 [yellow; handwritten]. Because Schenkling’s original description did not include figures, I provide here a habitus illustration of the male lectotype (Fig. 1) and a sketch of its pygidium (Figs. 2–3), which is diagnostic. The female specimen, described by Schenkling as having the last abdominal segment “simply rounded,” in fact has its sixth ventrite and tergite narrowly excavated at their apex. A second female specimen, housed in the SDEI (depository of Schenkling’s personal collection), was also collected by J. Flohr in Tepic, Mexico; it bears a red “ Syntype ” label, and a label indicating it was determined by Schenkling as this species. However, based on its coloration, pronotal sculpturing and the shape of its pygidium, it does not appear to be conspecific with C. kolbei and, in fact, more likely represents a specimen of the species described directly below; I therefore exclude it from the type series. Cymatodera kolbei is apparently quite rare, and so I take the opportunity to present here a new state record for the species: 1 male, México, Jalisco, Hwy. 80, Bellavista, vic. Acatlan de Juarez, 1300 m, July 3, 1993, J. & E. Beierl, colls.
description: Published as part of Rifkind, Jacques, 2015, New species of Cymatodera Gray (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Tillinae) from México and Central America, with notes on others, pp. 519-552 in Zootaxa 3946 (4) on pages 520-521, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3946.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/238608