Types of Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) Housed at the Museo de La Plata entomological collection

DEL RÍO, M. GUADALUPE; LANTERI, ANALÍA A.; SUÁREZ, SONIA

Revista del Museo de La Plata

Museo de La Plata

Lugar: La Plata; Año: 2005 vol. 46 p. 1 - 11

0372-4565

We report the type material of Scolytidae and Platypodidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) housed at the Museo de La Plata entomological collection. The specimens examined were mostly syntypes and paralectotypes of Scolytidae, corresponding to species described by the German specialist Karl Schedl, from 1938 to 1958. They come from Argentina and were collected by the entomologists M. J. Viana, J. M. Bosq and C. Bruch. We have examined more than 2000 specimens regarded as types, however, after the comparison of the information of their labels with that of the original species descriptions, only 308 of themwere recognized as true types. They correspond to 46 nominal species (43 of Scolytidae and three of Platypodidae), currently assigned to 23 genera. For each species we provide the following information: original and valid name, bibliographic references, category of types, code-numbers according to the rules of the Museo de La Plata collection, sex of the specimens when it is indicated, data on the labels (exact transcriptions), and remarks.