Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 99. (Budapest 2007)

Wilson, M. R. ; Takiya, D. M.: Cicadellinae (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) described by Leopold Melichar in the Hungarian Natural History Museum

kept (duplicate?) specimens from other collections (I. MALENOVSKY, in litt.). Syntypes could be thus found also in the MMBC, even though MELICHAR'S original private collection was not listed as a depository in the original description. Because it is difficult to prove which specimens MELICHAR kept, and their status the present authors have accepted the potential status of these specimens as syntypes in the MMBC pending further discussion in a wider context of MELICHAR'S collection. This material in the MMBC is listed when appropriate. Label information of types studied is given in quotations, each label separated by a virgule (/). Except of the "Typus" labels, known to have been placed by MELICHAR, the reviser(s) that placed "Lectotypus" labels in non-lectotype specimens listed below remain(s) unknown. In addition to named specimens of described species, unpublished manuscript names remain associated to specimens in the MELICHAR collection, most of which, however, were described by YOUNG during the course of his revisions. Coelopola adspersa var. peruviana MELICHAR, 1926a: 285, now synonym of Desamera intersecta (GERMAR, 1821) (YOUNG 1968a: 166) [Proconiini]. Original data: Peru: Vilcanota (Budapest). Lectotype female herein considered to be designated by YOUNG (19684: 165), "Peru, Vilcanota/ v. peruviana m. det. L. Melichar/ Typus/ Lectotypus", HNHM. Paralectotype female, "Peru, Vilcanota/ Coelopola adspersa F. v. peruviana Mel. [handwritten]/ Hung.", HNHM. No specimens found in MMBC. Lectotype designation herein formally accepted. Comments - An explicit formal lectotype designation for this species was apparently never published, and as mentioned above, the identity of the reviser who placed the "Lectotypus" label remains unknown. It is certain, however, that YOUNG did visit the HNHM and study these syntypes. He possibly thought that the specimen labelled as lectotype was previously validly designated, leading him not to include this species in his paper on designations of lectotypes of the HNHM (YOUNG & SOÓS 1964a). On the other hand, in YOUNG's (1968*2: fig. 152i) revision he illustrated the characteristic female sternite VII of this species and in the caption of the figure he mentions that it was based on the "lectotype". Considering no prior formal lectotype designation for this species was found, we believe that YOUNG's act can be viewed as a formal designation by means of a figure under the nomenclatural rules (ICZN 1964) because this specimen does belong to the syntype series and he explicitly uses the word "lectotype". Entogonia aprica MELICHAR, 1926^: 364, now Sibovia CHINA, 1927a [Cicadellini]. Original data: Columbia: (Budapest), Bolivia: Mapiri (coll m.). Lectotype male and paralectotype female designated by YOUNG (19774: 699), MMBC. No specimens found in HNHM.