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Tetralobus shuckhardi

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Tetralobus shuckhardi (Hope, 1842)

Piezophyllus shuckhardi Hope, 1842: 76.

Tetralobus shuckhardi (Hope, 1842): Schwarz (1906): 58.

Tetralobus dufouri Candèze, 1857: 378 [as dufourii; see the Remark]; synonymized by Candèze (1891): 48. Tetralobus shuckhardi f. i. attritus Laurent, 1965: 676 [unavailable name (ICZN 1999, Art. 45.6.3)]. Tetralobus cylindricus Laurent, 1965a: 674 [as in litteris name attributed to Buquet, nomen nudum]. Tetralobus dumolinii Hope, 1842: 76 [as in litteris name attributed to Dupont, nomen nudum].

Type depositories. T. shuckhardi: Type, male (OUMNH); T. dufouri: Lectotype, male (RBINS).

Type localities. T. shuckhardi: unknown; T. dufouri: Senegal (lectotype), South Africa: Cape of Good Hope.

Distribution. Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Literature. Hope (1842): original description of T. shuckhardi; Candèze (1857): original description of T. dufourii; Lacordaire (1857): remark; Candèze (1859): remark; Gemminger & Harold (1869): catalogue; Quedenfeldt (1886): remark; Waterhouse (1888): remark; Candèze (1891): catalogue; Schwarz (1906): catalogue; Fleutiaux (1919): catalogue; Schenkling (1925): catalogue; Fleutiaux (1926): catalogue; Bünzli & Büttiker (1957): remark; Laurent (1964a): key; Laurent (1965a): revision; Laurent (1967): checklist; Gurjeva (1974): classification; Costa et al. (1994): revision; Riese (1994): catalogue; Girard (2003): catalogue; Girard et al. (2007): description of larva; Costa et al. (2010): handbook of zoology; Costa & Vanin (2010): remark; Rosa et al. (2015): remark.

Remark. Although T. dufouri was dedicated to L. J. M. Dufour, Candèze (1857, 1859) used the spelling dufourii. Gemminger & Harold (1869) corrected the spelling to dufouri and this spelling has been in use since then. We deem this to be the correct original spelling in application of Art. 33.3.1. of the Code (ICZN 1999).

Notes

Published as part of Kundrata, Robin, 2017, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle subfamily Tetralobinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 151-184 in Zootaxa 4323 (2) on page 174, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/898836

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Scientific name authorship
Hope
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Elateridae
Genus
Tetralobus
Species
shuckhardi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Tetralobus shuckhardi (Hope, 1842) sec. Kundrata, 2017

References

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