Hetaerina infecta Calvert, 1901 1901
Creators: name: Turiault, Mélanie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Odonata
Calopterygidae
Hetaerina
Hetaerina infecta

description: <b>Original combination: <i>Hetaerina infecta</i> Calvert, 1901</b> Status: available species-group name; valid species Current combination: <i>Hetaerina infecta</i> Calvert, 1901 <b>Type material.</b> One male, one female; collecting locality: Atoyac, Veracruz, Mexico; collectors: Schumann and Herbert Huntingdon Smith Verbatim label data male 4a9513: (1) »Atoyac, / Vera Cruz. / Schumann.« [printed]; (2) »Co-« [handwritten] / » Typus « [printed]; (3) » HETAERINA « [printed] / »&amp;male;« [handwritten] / » INFECTA CALV.« [printed] / »cotype« [handwritten] / »P. P. Calvert det.« [printed], » 1900 « [handwritten]; (4) »B. C. A. Neur., p.« [printed], » 39 « [handwritten]; (5) »http://coll.mfn-berlin. de/u/ 4a9513 « [printed]. Verbatim label data female 4a950 b: (1) [a piece of abdomen adheres to the label]; (2) »Atoyac, / Vera Cruz. / May. H. H. S.« [printed]; (2) »Co-« [handwritten] / » Typus « [printed]; (3) » HETAERINA « [printed] / »&amp;female;« [handwritten] / » INFECTA CALV.« [printed] / »cotype« [handwritten] / »P. P. Calvert det. « [printed], » 1900 « [handwritten]; (4) »B. C. A. Neur., p. « [printed], » 39 « [handwritten]; (5) »http://coll.mfn-berlin.de/u/ 4a950 b« [printed]. <b>Notes.</b> Calvert (1901–1908: 39) wrote: »Hab. Mexico, Presidio in Vera Cruz (Barrett, coll. P.P.C.: 1 <b>&amp;female;</b>), Atoyac (H. H. Smith, Schumann: 24 <b>&amp;male;</b>, 22 <b>&amp;female;</b>);? Guatemala, Panima in Vera Paz (Champion: 2 <b>&amp;female;</b> of large size, one having hind wing 36 mm. long, may belong here).« and described the two sexes in detail as well as their age related attributes (»young«, »old«). Because the primary type concept was not considered as important at that time as it is nowadays, Calvert, like many other authors, did not designate a particular specimen as the type. After completing this seminal work (Calvert 1901– 1908), in the concluding introduction that was written in November 1908, he designated several holotypes in the Biologia Centrali-Americana, including that of <i>Hetaerina infecta</i> Calvert, 1901 (Calvert 1908). Kimmins (1969: 305) accepted Calvert’s designations and subsequent authors have stretched the rules to accept this. The male and the female preserved in the Berlin collection should consequently be considered paratypes. Garrison (1990: 217) stated » Types.− Lectotype male in BMNH (examined). I also examined a paralectotype in the CM«. Since he examined the holotype, stated as lectotype in his Synopsis, he was unaware of the existence of “cotypes” housed in Berlin. After consulting Rosser Garrison, who revised his previous statement (pers. comm.), the two mentioned specimens should be considered paratypes and not paralectotypes. They have no name-bearing function in terms of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
description: Published as part of <i>Mélanie Turiault, 2016, The type material of Calopterygidae in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (Odonata), pp. 95-106 in Odonatologica 45 (1)</i> on pages 97-99, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.50852
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