Published June 30, 2009 | Version v1
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Meligethes kelchii Gistel 1857

  • 1. Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ- 148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic; e-mail: jj. nitidula @ seznam. cz
  • 2. Dipartimento di Biologia animale e dell'Uomo, Sapienza Universitá di Roma, Viale dell'Università 32, I- 00185 Roma, Italy; e-mail: paolo. audisio @ uniroma 1. it

Description

Meligethes kelchii Gistel, 1857

Meligethes kelchii Gistel, 1857: 530 [18].

Type material. NEOTYPE: ♀, ‘Niederbayern / Tann 30.4.71 // Neotypus / Meligethes kelchii Gistel, 1857 des. Jelínek & Audisio, 2007 // Meligethes / aeneus (F.) / det Jelínek, 2007’.

This species is comparable to a ‘quite similar M. aenea ’ and was certainly based on a specimen of M. aeneus (F.). Therefore, it is considered here as a junior synonym of Meligethes aeneus (Fabricius, 1775).

Notes

Published as part of Jelínek, Josef & Audisio, Paolo, 2009, The Kateretidae, Nitidulidae and Monotomidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) described by Gistel (1856, 1857): new synonymies and type designations, pp. 225-238 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (1) on page 231, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5404440

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Gistel
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Nitidulidae
Genus
Meligethes
Species
kelchii
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Meligethes kelchii Gistel, 1857 sec. Jelínek & Audisio, 2009

References

  • GISTEL J. N. F. X. 1857: Achthundert und zwanzig neue oder unbeschriebene wirbellose Thiere. Pp. 513 - 606. In: Vacuna oder die Geheimnisse aus der organischen und leblosen Welt. Unterdruckte Originalien-Sammlung von grosstentheils noch lebenden und verstorbenen Gelehrten aus dem Gebiete sammtlicher Naturwissenschaften, der Medizin, Litteraturgeschichte, des Forst- und Jagtwesens, der Oekonomie, Geschichte, Biographie, und der freien schonen Kunste, herausgegeben von Professor Dr. Johannes Gistel. Zweiter Band. Schorner, Straubing, 1031 pp. [Also issued as a separate reprint in 1857 by Schorner, 94 pp.]
  • FABRICIUS J. C. 1775: Systema entomologiae sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Korte, Flensburgi et Lipsiae, 832 pp.