ZOOTAXA

ZOOTAXA Nicrophorus scrutator Blanchard, 1842 desig. lectotype65Type locality: “Chuquisaca” [Bolivia:19.083°S, 65.250°W; label]Type depository: MNHN: Paris [!] lectotype male, 1 paralectotype femaleDistribution: Neotropical: Peru, Bolivia, n Argentina1842 Blanchard: 74 (descriptions in French) >> Orig. comb.: Necrophorus scrutator[!N]1854 Lacordaire: 200 (biology, catalog in French)1868 Gemminger & Harold: 719 (catalog)1922 Portevin: 57 (descriptions in French) >> description of variation: 1 unavailablename1922 Sherborn: 5823 (catalog - index)1924 Portevin: 190 (key, descriptions in French)1926a Portevin: 237 (revision: key, descriptions & catalog in French) >> year of Blanchard1842 given as 18401927b Hatch: 353 (revision: key, descriptions & catalog)1928 Hatch: 128 (catalog) >> year of Blanchard 1842 given as 18401933 Semenov-Tian-Shanskij: 156 (catalog in Russian & Latin)1944 Blackwelder: 100 (catalog)1985 Peck & Anderson: 270 (key, descriptions, phylogenetics)1986 Nishikawa: 98 (catalog in Japanese (English summary))2000 Sikes & Peck: 395 (descriptions, phylogenetics)Comments: Lectotype data for Nicrophorus scrutator Blanchard, 1842: 74 "N. srutatorBlanch.Necrophorus scrutator Blanch. Type label upside down";/ " Type" handwritten,black ink.;/"6316 34"-on round label; / label: "TYPE" printed red ink.";/ MUSEUMPARIS"; / [BOLIVIA]: Chuquisaca, 1834 [19.083°S, 65.250°W](coll. d’Orbigny) / redrectangular label with double black border “LECTOTYPE Nicrophorus scrutator (Blanchard1842) det. Sikes 1997”- male (Paris [MNHN]); pronotal width: 6.81 mm.Paralectotype data “N. srutator Blanch. / Necrophorus scrutator Blanch. Type / labelupside down" Type" handwritten, black ink. label: "TYPE" printed red ink." MUSEUMPARIS" / de La Laguna Prov., 1834 (coll. d’Orbigny) / red rectangular label with doubleblack border “PARALECTOTYPE Nicrophorus scrutator (Blanchard 1842) det. Sikes1997”- female (Paris [MNHN]).Nicrophorus semenowi (Reitter, 1887)Type locality: “Centr. Asien, Zuflüsse des Blauen Flusses” [=“tributaries of the BlueRiv”. China?; label]Type depository: HNHM: Budapest [!] holotype femaleDistribution: Palearctic: China: Gansu & Qinghai prov.*, Tibet*1887 Reitter: 216 (descriptions in German) >> Orig. comb.: Silpha (Necrophorus)Semenowi [!N, S]1893 Heyden: 51 (checklist in German)1895b Reitter: 327 (description of variation in German) >> as Necrophorus Semenowi1896 Heyden: 38 (checklist in German)166 © 2002 Magnolia PressSIKES ET AL.