Titinia tenuis

Titinia tenuis (Germar, 1848) Fig. 3 Merimnetes tenuis Germar, 1848: 220. Myllocerus (Pseudanosimus) bacchus Voss, 1949: 75, syn. nov. Type material. AUSTRALIA - Victoria • 1 paratype; “ Bacchus / Marsh. Vict. XII. ” [blueish label, handwritten], “ Bacchus / Marsh. Vict. XII. ” [handwritten], “ Paratypus / Myllocerus / bacchus m. ” [red label], “ Coll. E. Voss / Eing. 3-75 ”; ZMH 841041. Notes. While studying African specimens of the genus Myllocerus Schoenherr, 1823 from Eduard Voss’s collection in the Zoological Museum of Hamburg University, we found M. bacchus Voss, 1949, previously described from East Africa. However, upon closer examination of the paratype, we identified it as the South Australian Titinia tenuis (Germar, 1848), uncovering a misinterpretation of the label. Eduard Voss had mistakenly assumed that “ Bacchus Marsh. Vict. ” referred to a location near Lake Victoria in Africa, when Bacchus Marsh actually is a peri-urban town near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Titinia tenuis is distributed in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, and Victoria (Oberprieler and Zimmerman 2020).