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Toxicum quadricorne

  • 1. INRA - UMR 1062 CBGP (INRA, IRD, CIRAD, Montpellier Supagro), Campus international de Baillarguet, CS 30016, F- 34988 Montferrier-sur-Lez cedex (France) soldati @ supagro. inra. fr kergoat @ supagro. inra. fr
  • 2. Mathématiques appliquées - UMR 7641 (CNRS, École polytechnique), route de Saclay, F- 91128 Palaiseau cedex (France) fabien. condamine @ gmail. com

Description

Toxicum quadricorne (Fabricius, 1801)

Trogosita quadricornis Fabricius, 1801: 153.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Vanuatu. Espiritu Santo Isl., Luganville, CETRAV in Saraoutou, ecotone between dense rainforest and coffee tree plantation, at night on dead trunks, 2-10.X.2006, leg. L. Soldati, 1 ♂ (coll. LS); Luganville, CETRAV in Saraoutou, 1-11.X.2006, at night with a headlamp, on the decaying trunk of an old mango tree (Mangifera indica L.), leg. L. Soldati, 2 ♂♂ (MNHN), 1 ♀ (coll. LS); same data, but 18-20.X.2006, 1 ♂ (MNHN), 1 ♂ (coll. LS).

DISTRIBUTION. — Indomalayan realm: Indochina, Sunda Islands, Andaman Islands, Sulawesi; Micronesia: Palau, Truk, Marshall Islands, Ponape; Melanesia: New Guinea (Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea), Solomon Islands and Vanuatu (Merkl 1989).

Notes

Published as part of Soldati, Laurent, Kergoat, Gael J. & Condamine, Fabien L., 2012, Preliminary report on the Tenebrionidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) collected during the SANTO 2006 expedition to Vanuatu, with description of a new species of the genus Uloma Dejean, 1821, pp. 305-317 in Zoosystema 34 (2) on page 308, DOI: 10.5252/z2012n2a8, http://zenodo.org/record/5165431

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
LS , MNHN, LS
Event date
2006-10-01 , 2006-10-02 , 2006-10-18
Verbatim event date
2006-10-01/11 , 2006-10-02/10 , 2006-10-18/20
Scientific name authorship
Fabricius
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Tenebrionidae
Genus
Toxicum
Species
quadricorne
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Toxicum quadricorne (Fabricius, 1801) sec. Soldati, Kergoat & Condamine, 2012

References

  • FABRICIUS J. C. 1801. - Systema eleutherathorum secundum ordines, genera, species adiectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomus I. Bibliopolii Academici Novi, Kiliae, XXIV, 506 p.
  • MERKL O. 1989. - Melanesian representatives of Toxicum and Cryphaeus (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae: Toxicini). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 35 (3 - 4): 235 - 254.