Lepidiota townsvillensis Blackburn, 1912

Allsopp, Peter G., 2020, Clarification of the status of the types of Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae) described before 1950, Zootaxa 4885 (4), pp. 451-486 : 473

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4885.4.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4340887
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C264702F-452C-3508-2BE7-99FEFE78FDF7
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scientific name	Lepidiota townsvillensis Blackburn, 1912
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Lepidiota townsvillensis Blackburn, 1912 :

Lectotype (designated by Britton 1978: 62) male: Type H. T. (circular red ringed, typeset) | 7896 Townsv. [Townsville, 19.26°S, 146.82°E] (handwritten in red) T. (handwritten) | Blackburn coll. 1910-236 (typeset) | Lepidiota townsvillensis, Blackb. (handwritten) | my lectotype label; in NHML. GoogleMaps

Blackburn (1912) described this species from two males; the ‘type’ was sent to NHML ( Lea 1912). Britton (1978) referred to a “ holotype ” male in NHML and a “ paratype ” male in SAM. Houston & Weir (1992) interpreted Britton’s (1978) incorrect reference to a holotype as a lectotype designation and the reference to a paratype as a paralectotype designation. Given that Britton (1978) clearly nominated the specimen in NHML as the holotype, I follow Houston & Weir (1992) in accepting a lectotype designation by Britton (1978) (Article 74.5). I could not find the second specimen in SAM.