ZOOTAXA

ZOOTAXA = flexuosus Portevin,192465Type locality: “Amérique centrale et méridionale, du Mexique au Pérou” [descrip.]Type depository: MNHN: Paris [not found]1924 Portevin: 191 (key, descriptions in French) >> Orig. comb.: Necrophorus flexuosus[!N, S]1926a Portevin: 238 (revision: key, descriptions & catalog in French) >> as valid species1928 Hatch: 128 (catalog) >> as syn. of N. didymus1985 Peck & Anderson: 268 (key, descriptions, phylogenetics) >> as syn. of N. didymus= peruvianus Pic, 1917 CONFIRMED as SYNONYM of N. didymus BlanchardType locality: “Pérou” [Peru; descrip., no data on type]Type depository: MNHN: Paris [!] holotype female1917a Pic: 2 (description of variation in French) >> Orig. comb.: Necrophorus didymusvar. peruvianus [!N, S]1924 Portevin: 191 (key, descriptions in French) >> as N. flexuosus ab. peruvianus1926a Portevin: 238 (revision: key, descriptions & catalog in French) >> as N.didymusab. peruvianus1928 Hatch: 128 (catalog) >> as N. didymus ab. peruvianus1985 Peck & Anderson: 268 (key, descriptions, phylogenetics) >> as syn. of N. didymus= portevini Pic, 1933 CONFIRMED as SYNONYM of N. didymus BlanchardType locality: unknownType depository: MNHN: Paris [!] holotype female1933b Pic: 6 (description of variation in French) >> Orig. comb.: Necrophorus flexuosusvar. Portevini1985 Peck & Anderson: 268 (key, descriptions, phylogenetics) >> as syn. of N. didymus(N. flexuosus first synonymyzed by Hatch 1928)Comments: Lectotype data for Nicrophorus didymus Brullé,1836: pl. 5: 3 "N. didymusBrullé Type"/ "MUSEUM PARIS CORDEILIERES D'ORBIGNY 1834"; /label with redink letters: "TYPE"; /"7450 34"/ [BOLIVIA]: Bard de la riviere altamachi, red rectangularlabel with double black border “LECTOTYPE Nicrophorus didymus (Brullé 1846) det.Sikes 1997” - male (Paris [MNHN]); pronotal width: 7.43 mm.Paralectotype data “N. didymus Brullé Type” / "MUSEUM PARIS CORDEILIERESD'ORBIGNY 1834”; label with red ink letters: "TYPE"; "7450 34" / [BOLIVIA]: Bard dela riviere altamachi, red rectangular label with double black border “PARALECTOTYPENicrophorus didymus (Brullé 1846) det. Sikes 1997” - female (Paris [MNHN]).Regarding N. flexuosus Portevin: DSS could not locate the type in the MNHN but didfind a series of N. didymus flexuosus, one with a label “flexuosus Port” in Pic’s handwriting.In lieu of the type he examined this series and concluded it is N. didymus, with joinedelytral maculae.48 © 2002 Magnolia PressSIKES ET AL.