Phrynocaria crotchi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Coccinelloidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Superphylum: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Coccinelloidea

Phrynocaria crotchi Li, Tomaszewska, Pang & Ślipiński, 2014

Type locality: Indonesia, Maluku Islands: Bacan Islands ("Batchian" = Batjian) and Ternate "Ternate". (Not specimen from Halmahera "Gilolo", see Chilocorus crotchi Li, Tomaszewska, Pang & Ślipiński, 2014).

Typus: Lectotype Male ♂, UMZ ("UMZC")(designated by Gordon, 1987). Paralectotype female "Ter." legit Alfred R. Wallace].

Chilocorus wallacii Crotch, 1874: 187; Gordon, 1987: 23.
Chilocorus wallaci [sic] Crotch, 1874: Korschefsky, 1932: 243
Phrynocaria crotchi Li, Tomaszewska, Pang & Ślipiński, 2014: 597, figs. 1C, 1D, 2A–2H. (Replacement name, junior secondary homonym, nec Phrynocaria wallacii (Crotch, 1874) from Coelophora wallacii Crotch, 1874: 156)

Li, J-H., Tomaszewska W., Pang, H. & Ślipiński, A., 2014. Ladies in stripes: taxonomic confusion in a potential mimicry complex among Wallacean Coccinellidae (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae). Zootaxa 3900(4): 592–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3900.4.9 ResearchGate Reference page.
Gordon, R.D. 1987. A catalogue of the Crotch collection of Coccinellidae (Coleoptera). Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology 3: 1–46. ISBN 0-565-01016-6 Reference page.

Crotch, G.R. (†) 1874. A revision of the coleopterous family Coccinellidae. E. W. Janson, London. xv. + 311 pp. Internet Archive BHL. Reference page.
Korschefsky, R. 1932. Pars 120: Coccinellidae. II. In: Junk, W. & Schenkling, S. (Eds.), Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, Berlin, pp. 225–659.