Taxonavigation

Familia: Scirtidae
Subfamilia: Scirtinae
Genus: Cyphon
Species: Cyphon oscillans

Name

Cyphon oscillans Sharp, 1878

• Primary type: lectotype
  • Fixation: designated by Nyholm (2000: 45)
• Secondary types: paralectotypes (6)
• NOTE: one paralectotype represents an undescribed species, misidentified as C. oscillans by Nyholm (1972)

References

• Broun, T. 1883. On the New Zealand Dascyllidae, etc. New Zealand Journal of Science (Dunedin) 1(8): 367–382. BHL Reference page. 
• Kuschel, G. 1990. Beetles in a suburban environment: A New Zealand case study. The identity and status of Coleoptera in the natural and modified habitats of Lynfield, Auckland (1974–1989). DSIR Plant Protection report, 3. 119 pp. ISBN 0-477-02596-X PDF. Reference page. 
• Nyholm, T. 1972. Zur Morphologie und Funktion des Helodiden-Aedoeagus. Entomologica Scandinavica 3(2): 81–119. DOI: 10.1163/187631272X00193 Reference page. 
• Nyholm, T. 2000: New species, taxonomic notes, and genitalia of New Zealand Cyphon (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). New Zealand entomologist 22(1): 45–67. DOI: 10.1080/00779962.1999.9722054 Reference page. 
• Sharp, D. 1878d. On the Dascillidae of New Zealand. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2: 40–59. DOI: 10.1080/00222937808682380. . Reference page.