Blethisa multipunctata subsp. aurata Fischer

• Main Authors: Goulet, Henri, Lafer, German S., Morita, Seiji
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Carabidae; Blethisa; Blethisa multipunctata; Blethisa multipunctata aurata fischer; Bonanza; Gora; Sotka; Kamchatka; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6217019; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EEA039FFD3FFAFFF33FAEEB494FDD6

Blethisa multipunctata aurata Fischer von Waldheim (Figs. 1 and 3) Blethisa aurata Fischer von Waldheim, 1828: 262 (orig. descr.). Type loc.: Kamchatka. Location of type series uncertain (see taxonomic notes). Blethisa aurata Fischer von Waldheim: Chaudoir, 1844: 438 [redescr.]. Jakobson, 1906: 267 [Yakut., Kamchatka]. Blethisa curtula Motsch: Heyden, 1886: 294 [Chabarovka]. Misidentification. Blethisa multipunctata aurata : Lindroth, 1954: 15 –16 [Chabarofka, Amur. Reg., 1882. Graeser, 1 3, in Mus. Budapest; Chabarovsk, 1 3, Bodemeyer, col. Bänninger; “Sotka Gora”, 1 Ƥ, Bodemeyer, col. Bänninger; Kamchatka, 1 3, Bodemeyer, col. Bänninger; “Kamchatka, Eschscholtz”, 1 3, Univ. Mus. Helsinki.], fig. 7c; Lindroth, 1961: 106 –107. Uéno, 1985: 61 [Japan: Hokkaido], Pl. 12, fig. 1. Kryzhanovskij et al., 1995: 60. Berlov and Berlov, 1996: 64 [Irkutskaya Reg.: Kharat, Chernorud, Salari; 3 ex.]. Goulet, 2003: 206 [Russian Far East and Nearctic]. Blethisa hudsonica Lindroth, 1954: 15 –16; not Casey 1924: 18. Blethisa inexspectata Goulet and Smetana, 1983: 551 (orig. descr.) Type loc.: United States, Alaska, Bonanza Creek 150°40’N 66°40’W. Holotype, seen and in CNC. NEW SYNONYM . Type material. We know of five likely syntypes, three males and one female and one of undetermined sex. Two of the specimens are in the Zoological Museum of Moscow University (Moscow, Russia), one is in the Finnish Museum of Natural History (Helsinki, Finland), one in the Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde (Dresden, Germany) (Grämer, 1960) and one from the Chaudoir/Oberthür collection (Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris) (Chaudoir, 1844). They are all from Kamchatka. The labels of the specimens in Moscow are hand written by Fischer von Waldheim, but there is no collector mentioned. The specimen from Dresden, originally from Fischer von Waldheim’s private collection, is a male from Kamchatka. The specimens in Helsinki and Paris were collected by Eschscholtz, as mentioned in the original description (Fischer von Waldheim, 1828: 262). The last two ...