Cryptoxyleborus eggersi

Genus / Species: Cryptoxyleborus eggersi | Image Author: TH Atkinson | Location: Phillipines, Mindanao, Kolambugan | Image Type: lectotype | Collection: Entomology

Schedl (1936: 60) did not designate a holotype, simply stating: “types in the collections of Eggers and Schedl”. Anderson & Anderson (1971: 12) designated the specimen in the Eggers collection at the USNM as the lectotype. Consequently Schedl’s (1979: 87) designation of a “holotype” is invalid and unnecessary. Wood & Bright (1992: 828) mistakenly cited the Schedl designation.

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