Centroscelis (Centroscelis) decempustulata Bezděk & Daccordi & Kantner 2012, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Bezděk, Jan
name: Daccordi, Mauro
name: Kantner, František
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Centroscelis
Centroscelis decempustulata

description: Centroscelis (Centroscelis) decempustulata (Thunberg, 1787) comb. nov.
Chrysomela 10-pustulata Thunberg, 1787: 44.
Centroscelis inenarrabilis Vogel, 1871: 127, syn. nov.
Centroscelis trifibulata Vogel, 1871: 131, syn. nov.
Centroscelis bisquinquepustulata Vogel, 1871: 130, syn. nov.
Centroscelis nigripennis Achard, 1924: 38, syn. nov.
Centroscelis quatuordecimmaculata Achard, 1924: 38, syn. nov.
Type localities. Chrysomela decempustulata: not stated. Centroscelis inenarrabilis: ‘Cap b. sp. [= Cape of Good Hope], Port Natal’. Centroscelis trifibulata: ‘Cap b. sp. [= Cape of Good Hope]’. Centroscelis bisquinquepustulata: ‘Cap b. sp. [= Cape of Good Hope]’. Centroscelis nigripennis: ‘ Colonie du Cap: Dunbrody’. Centroscelis quatuordecimmaculata: ‘ Colonie du Cap: Port Alfred’.
Type material. Chrysomela decempustulata: LECTOTYPE (designated here): 1 ♀, ‘ Uppsala Univ.Zool.Mus. / Thunbergsaml. nr: 9781 / Chrysomela decempustulata / Mus. Thunb. TYP [red label, p] // Centroscelis / decempustulata / (Thunberg) [h] / des. Daccordi 2011 [w, p] // Lectotype [red label, p]’ (UUZM).
Centroscelis inenarrabilis: HOLOTYPE: 1♀, ‘29849 [w, p] // inenarrabilis / et var.Vogel.* / Pr.b. sp. Krebs [blue label, h] // HOLOTYPUS / Centroscelis / inenarrabilis Vogel, 1871 / labelled by MNHUB 2012 [red label, p]’ (ZMHB).
Centroscelis trifibulata: not examined, probably deposited in Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet Stockholm (Sweden).
Centroscelis bisquinquepustulata: HOLOTYPE: 1 ♂, ‘29859 [w, p] // bis-5pustulata / Vogel. * [w, h] // Pr. b. sp. Krebs [blue label, h] // HOLOTYPUS / Centroscelis bisquinque- / pustulata Vogel, 1871 / labelled by MNHUB 2012 [red label, p]’ (ZMHB).
Centroscelis nigripennis: SYNTYPE: 1 ♀, ‘Dunbr [w, h] // TYPE [pink label, p] // Centroscelis / nigripennis n sp [h] / J. Achard det. [p] TYPE [w, h]’ (NMPC).
Centroscelis quatuordecimmaculata: SYNTYPE: 1 ♂, ‘Port / Alfred [w, h] // J / 39 [w, h] // TYPE [pink label, p] // Centroscelis / 14 maculata n sp [h] / J. Achard det. [p] TYPE [w, h]’ (NMPC).
Distribution. Republic of South Africa.
Comments. Recently, one of us (M. D.) had a possibility to examine the syntype (female) of Chrysomela decempustulata Thunberg, 1787 deposited in UUZM which proved to be a representative of Centroscelis and conspecific with C. inenarrabilis Vogel, 1871. Centroscelis inenarrabilis with its previously accepted synonyms C. trifibulata, C. bisquinquepustulata, C. nigripennis and C. quatuordecimmaculata (see DACCORDI 1983) are proposed new synonyms of Centroscelis decempustulata (Thunberg, 1787) comb. nov. Because THUNBERG (1787) did not stated the number of available specimens, lectotype is designated to fix the name to a single name-bearing type specimen.
description: Published as part of Bezděk, Jan, Daccordi, Mauro & Kantner, František, 2012, Centroscelis kadleci sp. nov. from Yemen and a new synonymy in the genus Centroscelis (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae), pp. 237-244 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1) on pages 242-243, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5330104