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Agrypnus costicollis Hayek 1973

  • 1. National Pusa Collection, Division of Entomology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India. akashkotru 100 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0008 - 0478 - 2149
  • 2. Zoological Survey of India, M- Block, New Alipore, Kolkata, West Bengal 700019, India. anil. 2 kd @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0831 - 9780
  • 3. National Pusa Collection, Division of Entomology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India. akashkotru 100 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0008 - 0478 - 2149 & Department of Entomology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1 / 12, Moscow, 119234, Russia. carrabus 69 @ mail. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5846 - 8755 * Corresponding author: nithyachandran @ iari. res. in; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3084 - 2853 & National Pusa Collection, Division of Entomology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India. akashkotru 100 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0008 - 0478 - 2149

Description

Agrypnus costicollis (Candèze, 1857)

Lacon costicollis Candèze, 1857: 116.

Archontas costicollis (Candèze) Fleutiaux, 1947: 282.

Agrypnus costicollis (Candèze) Hayek, 1973: 144.

Type depository. Holotype (BMNH).

Type locality. “Des Indes Orientales”.

Distribution. India: Assam, Arunachal Pradesh *, Meghalaya * Sikkim, Uttarakhand, West Bengal Uttar Pradesh (Chakraborty, Chakrabarti, 2000). Elsewhere: Cambodia, Tonkin, Yunnan.

Literature. Candèze (1857: 116): original description; Fleutiaux (1947: 282): combination; Hayek (1973: 144): combination; Chakraborty and Chakrabarti (2000: 77): catalogue; Chakraborty and Chakrabarti (2006: 38): records of the zoological survey of India, occasional paper no. 254.

Notes

Published as part of Kotru, Akash, Chandran, Nithya, Dubey, Anil Kumar & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2025, A catalogue of Indian Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 1-66 in Zootaxa 5614 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/15217075

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Scientific name authorship
Hayek
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Elateridae
Genus
Agrypnus
Species
costicollis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Agrypnus costicollis Hayek, 1973 sec. Kotru, Chandran, Dubey & Prosvirov, 2025

References

  • Fleutiaux, E. (1947) Revision des Elaterides de I' Indo-Chine Francaise. Notes d'Entomologie Chinoise, 11, 233-420.
  • Hayek von, C. M. F. (1973) A reclassification of the subfamily Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Entomology, 20, 1-309. https://doi.org/10.5962/p.150325
  • Chakraborty, P. & Chakrabarti, S. (2000) Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of India: A Taxonomic Review and Check List. Records of Zoological Survey of India, 98 (3), 71-83. [in the original publication the surname of the second author was misspelled as " Chakraborty "] https://doi.org/10.26515/rzsi/v98/i3/2000/159662
  • Chakraborty P. & Chakrabarti S. (2006) A contribution to the Fauna of Click-Beetles (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Elateridae) of West Bengal. Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper Number 254, 1-220.