Type specimens of Kôno's species of Attelabidae deposited in the Hokkaido University and National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan (Coleoptera:Curculionoidea)

概要

Hiromichi Kôno (1905–1963) was born at Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. His father,
Tsunekichi Kôno, was a well-known historian of Hokkaido. During his early school
years, Hiromichi Kôno studied entomology at the Faculty of Agriculture of the Hokkaido
Imperial University (now the Faculty of Agriculture of the Hokkaido University). A few
years after graduation, he obtained his doctorate at the age of twenty-seven specializing
on Japanese weevils. During World War II, his position at Hokkaido Imperial University
was changed to part-time instructor, because of the oppressive policy of the Japanese
government. In 1944, he resigned from the University and became the head of Northern
Cultures research office established by Hokkaido Shimbun, the largest local newspaper
company. Upon his resignation and employment with the Hokkaido Shimbun, he devoted
himself increasingly to the study of the ethnology and archaeology of northern Japan and
retired from the forefront of entomology.
Kôno studied entomology under Shonen Matsumura (1872–1960) at the
entomological laboratory of Hokkaido Imperial University, and became the first
specialist of Coleoptera there. Between 1926 and 1942, he published more than 80 papers
on entomology, in which he described a lot of new taxa in almost all families of the order
Coleoptera, mainly from Japan, Formosa, Sakhalin and Kurils. In his taxonomic studies,
he took into account not only morphological characteristics of insects but also ecological
aspects derived from his observation in nature. Especially in the taxonomic study of
the family Attelabidae, he wrote many papers about classification of attelabid weevil,
introducing a lot of detailed ecological material based on his observations (Watanabe
1963).
Unfortunately, most of species description by Kôno are not adequate enough
for present-day species recognition, and an examination of type material is usually
an essential part of the revisionary work. Early Kôno’s descriptions also often lacked
information of type specimen (ex. the number of specimens examined). Furthermore,
Kôno did not attach type labels to the type specimens. Therefore, it is necessary
to compare the data of all his specimens with the information given in the original
paper. However, such examinations are often impeded by a lack of information on
the whereabouts of the type material in question. The aim of this study is to clarify
type status of attelabid weevils in Kôno collection housed in the Hokkaido University
Museum, Sapporo, Japan and National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Japan
and compile the data of type specimens in a list with specimen photographs.
Materials and Methods
The list of types is arrayed in alphabetical order by specific epithet. Each name
is followed by the author, date, page reference, original genus–name combination and
figure number. Original genus– name combination and figure number are shown in
parentheses ().
For better preservation of the historical status of the types, information from each
type was recorded exactly as given on labels, with (1), (2), (3), etc., indicating the order
of labels on the pin from top to bottom. In the text of label information, slash marks
including spaces mean line feed in each label (ex. Sapporo / H. Kôno) and slash marks
not including spaces indicate a date separator (ex. 30/VI 1924). ...

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