Ectinogonia buqueti subsp. speciosa var. obscuripennis Cobos 1954
Creators: name: Pineda, Cristian
name: París, Mercedes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Ectinogonia
Ectinogonia buqueti
Ectinogonia buqueti speciosa var. obscuripennis cobos, 1954:65

description: Ectinogonia buqueti speciosa var. obscuripennis Cobos, 1954:65
[Figures 31–33, 49–51]
Non-type specimen: “El Sauce Coquimbo. Chile R. Wagenknecht c. // Coll. Olave Chile. Amer. m. // EX COLECCION Dr. A. Cobos // Cotipo // Ectinogonia buqueti ssp. speciosa var. obscuripennis nov. A. Cobos det. 1.953 // ¿Sintipo? MNCN Tipos N° 7943 // MNCN_Ent 275887”
Non-type specimen: “Laguna Maule, 15-Enero.48, Cord: Tlaca,. Coll: L.E. Pena. // Ex Colección Dr. A. Cobos. // MNCN_Ent 275888”.
Non-type specimen: “Las Cabras, Cord. Chillan, 1100, 1480 m., 10.23-Dic.54, Coll: L.E. Pena // Ex Colección Dr. A. Cobos. // MNCN_Ent 275889”.
Non-type specimen: “Las Cabras, Cord. Chillan, 1100, 1480 m., 10.23-Dic.54, Coll: L.E. Pena // Ex Colección Dr. A. Cobos. // MNCN_Ent 275890”.
Non-type specimen: “ V. Venado-Vilches, Cord. Talca. 1600, 29-XII-1973, Col. P. Vidal // Ex Colección Dr. A. Cobos. // Ectinogonia buqueti ssp. speciosa f. obscuripennis m. A. Cobos det. 1976// MNCN _Ent 275891”. [Male. Genital structure removed and glued on card].
Current status: This taxon was recently raised to species level by Anguita-Salinas et al. (2019), but the name and authorship should be updated as Ectinogonia (Ectinogonia) oscuripennis Moore, 1994. Moore’s aim was to give a new status to the variety obscuripennis Cobos, but he wrote Ectinogonia speciosa oscuripennis, so oscuripennis and not obscuripennis is the correct spelling for this taxon.
Comments: As the name obscuripennis Cobos was used as an infrasubspecific one is therefore not available according to Article 45.5. (ICZN 1999) (a name expressly proposed to denote an infrasubspecific entity is not an available name). The name oscuripennis Moore, 1994 is the available name for obscuripennis Cobos, 1954 in agreement with Article 45.5.1. (When a subsequent author applies the same word to a species or subspecies in a manner that makes it an available name, even if he or she attributes authorship of the name to the author of its publication as an infrasubspecific name, that subsequent author thereby establishes a new name with its own authorship and date). Moore (1994:154) raised the name obscuripennis Cobos to the subspecies level as Ectinogonia speciosa oscuripennis. He does not mention the specimens studied by Cobos (1954:65) and makes the diagnosis studying seven specimens from "Las Trancas, Chillán, VIII Región, Dic. 1983, 16/I/1987 y Dic. 1988 ”, which are the syntypes of this taxon.
Regarding the specimens identified by Cobos as f. obscuripennis, in the collection of the Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique (RBINS) is currently deposited the specimen mentioned by Cobos (1954:65) as a blackish specimen, which was previously determined by Charles Kerremans as Ectinogonia fastidiosa. This specimen bears the following labels: “ Ectinogonia buqueti ssp. speciosa var. obscuripennis nov. A Cobos det. 1.953 COTIPO Cf.: Rev. Chil. Ent. 1953,3:52–64,5 Para-type // Kerremans det., 1890: Ectinogonia fastidiosa Fairm. // Determ 1890 Kerremans // Coll. R. I.Sc.N.B. Coll. Weyers ”. In the MNCN-CSIC collection are preserved five specimens identified by Cobos as f. obscuripennis. One of them (Fig. 31–33) is labelled as Cotipo, but this specimen is not type of any available taxon.
The specimen deposited at the RBINS collection (Fig. 49–51), and four of the five specimens deposited at the MNCN-CSIC collection (MNCN _Ent 275888, 275889, 275890 and 275891) are conspecific with the specimens studied by Moore (1994:154). The specimen MNCN _Ent 275887 (Fig. 31–33) is an unidentified species of Ectinogonia, which is not conspecific with this taxon.
description: Published as part of Pineda, Cristian & París, Mercedes, 2022, Types of species of Ectinogonia (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) described by Antonio Cobos Sánchez deposited in the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, pp. 478-486 in Zootaxa 5175 (4) on pages 480-481, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5175.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/7006443