Melobasina suturalis Bílý &amp; Kubáň &amp; Volkovitsh 2009, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Bílý, Svatopluk
name: Kubáň, Vítězslav
name: Volkovitsh, Mark G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Buprestidae
Melobasina
Melobasina suturalis

description: <i>Melobasina suturalis</i> (Deyrolle, 1864), comb. nov. (Figs. 66–70) <i>Poecilonota suturalis</i> Deyrolle, 1864: 58 (key) 64 (characters). Type locality: Indonesia, Maluku Islands, Halmahera island (‘Gilolo’). <i>Poecilonota suturalis</i>: GEMMINGER &amp; HAROLD (1869): 1376 (catalogue; distribution: ‘Gilolo’); SAUNDERS (1871): 38 (catalogue; distribution: ‘Gilolo’); KERREMANS (1892): 92 (catalogue; distribution: ‘Gilolo’). <i>Lampra suturalis</i>: KERREMANS (1903): 135 (list of species; new combination; distribution: ‘Gilolo’); OBENBERGER (1930): 356 (catalogue; distribution: ‘Gilolo’). <i>Lamprodila</i> (<i>Palmar</i>) <i>suturalis</i>: BELLAMY (2008): 622 (catalogue; new combination; distribution: Indonesia: Halmahera, Kalimantan). <b>Type material examined.</b> LECTOTYPE (designated here): sex not examined (MNHN, coll. Oberthür), <b>INDONESIA: MALUKU ISLANDS:</b> Halmahera Island: ‘suturalis HDeyr. I. Gilolo [h]’. Since the number of syntypes is unknown, we designate here the specimen mentioned above as the lectotype to avoid any confusion in the future. <b>Additional material examined.</b> <b>INDONESIA: MALUKU ISLANDS:</b> Halmahera Island (1 &amp;female;, NMPC); Halmahera Island NW, 7 km SE of Jailolo, 200 m, 1°1′18″N 127°31′39″E, 26.–27.i.2006, UWP + clearing, A. Skale leg. (1 &amp;female;, MNCA). <b>Remarks.</b> BELLAMY (2008) formally transferred this species to the genus <i>Lamprodila</i> (subgenus <i>Palmar</i>) and mentioned it also from Kalimantan. We failed to trace any specimen or data from Kalimantan and suppose that its presence there is highly improbable. We find <i>M. suturalis</i> rather different from other species of the genus. <b>Distribution.</b> Indonesia (Maluku Islands: Halmahera Island).? Kalimantan.
description: Published as part of <i>Bílý, Svatopluk, Kubáň, Vítězslav &amp; Volkovitsh, Mark G., 2009, A study on the tribe Poecilonotini, with a revision of the subtribe Nesotrinchina subtrib. nov. and the description of a new genus and species from Papua New Guinea (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Chrysochroinae), pp. 729-767 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (2)</i> on pages 753-754, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5324888
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