﻿Typification of the name Arthopyreniaparolinii Beltr. (Ascomycota, Dothideomycetes, Pleosporales, Arthopyreniaceae)

﻿Abstract Arthopyreniaparolinii Beltr. is one of the few species of the lichen genus Arthopyrenia A. Massal. described by Italian authors of the XIX century, lacking type formal association. In this regard, the name Arthopyreniaparolinii is hereby lectotypified using a specimen stored in the lichen herbarium of A.B. Massalongo at VER. Additional original material was found only at M, while another specimen at MSNVE, labelled as Spermatodiumparolinii, although referable to this species, should not be considered as original material. Arthopyreniaparolinii is among the least well-known species in the genus. Given the genus Arthopyrenia is still very poorly known, it is important to clarify the original material of the species and propose the lectotyping. The selected lectotype is the only sample among the analyzed ones reporting complete data on the locus classicus; it conforms to the characters described in the protologue and comes from the Herbarium Beltramini.

As part of the research carried out by the authors focusing on the occurrence of Arthopyrenia and Naetrocymbe in Italy (Ravera 2006(Ravera , 2014;;Puntillo and Ravera 2013;Ravera and Isocrono 2021;Isocrono and Ravera 2022) we aimed to establish the identity of Arthopyrenia parolinii Beltr., a neglected species not yet typified.A. parolinii, such as several other multiseptated species described by Italian authors of the XIX Century -e.g., A. cembricola (Anzi) Lettau, A. cinerescens A. Massal., A. molinii Beltr., etc.-still await a critical study.Given the challenges relating to the genus Arthopyrenia which according to Wijayawardene et al. (2022) includes 5 + approximately 100 orphaned species -i.e.species that have been named and formally described, but have not been updated and reassessed following a revision of the genus -it is crucial to analyze and clarify the poorly known original material of such species and propose the lectotyping.We have therefore examined several historical lichen samples probably attributable to Arthopyrenia parolinii Beltr.Among the checked exsiccates, the sample of A. parolinii stored in the Abramo Bartolomeo Massalongo lichen herbarium in VER, revealed that it originates from the Francesco Beltramini de' Casati collection and it was collected in the location reported in the protologue, i.e. locus classicus.
Francesco Beltramini de ' Casati's (1828' Casati's ( -1903) ) primary botanical interest lay in lichens.In this field, he published a richly illustrated work on the lichen flora of Bassano del Grappa, Vicenza, Italy (Beltramini de' Casati 1858).Massalongo, his friend and mentor, is honored in this work.
The possibility that Beltramini's lichenological collections may have merged into the renowned lichenologist's herbarium is plausible because of Massalongo's well-known friendship with his fellow countryman and student Beltramini.

Methods
This study is based on: i) analysis of the protologue, ii) pinpointing the location of the locus classicus, iii) search for the original material, iv) examination of specimens in M (Botanische Staatssammlung München), MSNVE (Lichenotheca Veneta by Vittore Trevisan kept at Natural History Museum of Venice Giancarlo Ligabue), and VER (Herbarium of A.B. Massalongo at the Civic Natural History Museum of Verona).High-resolution digital images from MSNVE and M were also consulted.
Macroscopic and microscopic characteristics were observed in dried specimens with a Zeiss dissecting microscope equipped with a Leica camera.Microscopic characters were examined from hand-cut sections and squashes mounted in a 5% KOH solution from dried specimens with a Zeiss Axioscope optical microscope equipped with AxioCam MRc camera (Zeiss, Welwyn Garden City, UK).
Typification follows the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi and plants (Turland et al. 2018).
According to Beltramini's explanation in the paper, the epithet is in honor of the "Cavaliere Nob.Alberto Parolini" (1788-1867) a renowned Italian naturalist known for his rich botanical garden named Parolini Garden at Bassano del Grappa, and for his donation of a sizable collection of natural history objects to the local civic museum.
The collecting site of the sample is mentioned as "le tiglie nel passeggio di Belvedere in Bassano" [on Tilia along Belvedere stroll in Bassano].
The sample stored in the Lichenological Herbarium of A.B. Massalongo in Verona (Fig. 1A, B) is made up of a piece of bark glued to the herbarium sheet.The label reports the location "Tilia di Bassano" [Tilia of Bassano del Grappa] and the note "Herb.Beltramini".The two sentences display different handwriting: a calligraphic comparison made with original material preserved in the Library of University of Padua (see https://phaidra.cab.unipd.it/)allowed us to identify the locality, in red ink, as written by Beltramini while the name of the species and the herbarium attribution as written by Massalongo.
We also found a second undated collection of Arthopyrenia parolinii in Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns Herbarium (M).This sample -M-0207340-shows the same set-up and comes from Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold personal herbarium.
On the sheet (Fig. 2), some notes are reported: the name of the species accredited to Beltramini, the note "nov.spec ?", the substratum "ad Tiliae truncos", the location "Pr Vicez."[Province of Vicenza], the herbarium from which the sample was taken "herb.Massalongo".All these notes appear to be written by Massalongo.
Consequently, among the few original materials that currently exist, we designate the specimen stored in VER as lectotype, as this is the most complete, and informative, and in line with the protologue.

Notes
Studies on Arthopyrenia species with 5-7 septate spores in Europe are still lacking.Several species formally named and described by Beltramini (e.g.Arthopyrenia molinii Beltr.)(Isocrono and Ravera 2022) and Massalongo have not been updated or re-evaluated in recent studies.The main reason is the difficulty of working with material dating back to the 19 th century, for which there are an extremely limited number of samples, which are often difficult to locate and obtain in loan, and in many cases these species are only known from the locus classicus (Nimis et al. 2018).

The locus classicus
In Bassano del Grappa, an Italian town located in the province of Vicenza, Italy, the avenue once known as Viale Belvedere is now named as Viale delle Fosse.This avenue was built in 1790 when the moats surrounding the Visconti walls were covered.After this work, a double row of linden trees (Fig. 4) and various statues were added to the avenue which, starting from the Porta delle Grazie, reached the Parolini Garden.This new tree-lined avenue was called "Passeggio pubblico di Belvedere o Fosse" [Public Walk of Belvedere or Fosse], the same name reported in the A. parolinii protologue.
220 of the original linden trees were removed for plant health reasons during World War I, and they were replaced by American elms, effectively preventing us from searching for current material on the original phorophytes (Bordignon 2016).

Figure 1 .
Figure 1.Exsiccata of Arthopyrenia parolinii Beltramini from the lichen herbarium of A.B. Massalongo in VER A fragment of linden bark, colonized by the lichen and glued to the herbarium sheet with the name of the species and note "Herb.Beltramini" written by Massalongo in black ink, and the locality of collection, in red ink, written by Beltramini B detail of thallus and perithecia in surface view.Scale bar: 1 mm.

Figure 2 .
Figure 2. Exsiccata of Arthopyrenia parolinii Beltramini from M Lichen herbarium (M-0207340) registered as "Type Material" A the original label from Arnold personal herbarium B a fragment of linden bark, colonized by the lichen, glued to the herbarium sheet with the name of the species accredited to Beltramini and a few notes written by Massalongo.