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Pachyschelus lunifer Waterhouse 1889

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Pachyschelus lunifer Waterhouse, 1889 original combination reinstated

Pachyschelus lunifer Waterhouse, 1889: 148. Hylaeogena lunifer: Hespenheide, 1974: 106.

This species was inadvertently transferred to Hylaeogena (Hespenheide 1974). After examination, based on the genus diagnosis, it belongs to Pachyschelus and is herewith returned to the original combination. Specimen examined:

BMNH: holotype: Guatemala, Volcan de Atitlan 3000 feet (Champion).

Notes

Published as part of Hornburg, Michael, 2012, Nomenclatural changes in Neotropical Tracheini with the description of Hylaeogena aeneonitens sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from the Orinoco basin in Venezuela, pp. 53-61 in Zootaxa 3242 on page 57, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.280497

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Waterhouse
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Buprestidae
Genus
Pachyschelus
Species
lunifer
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pachyschelus lunifer Waterhouse, 1889 sec. Hornburg, 2012

References

  • Waterhouse, C. O. (1889) Biologia Centrali Americana, Insecta, Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Volume 3, part 1, pp. 49 - 166, plates IV-VIII and Supplement, pp. 167 - 193.
  • Hespenheide, H. A. (1974) Nomenclatural notes on the Agrilinae (Coleoptera: Buprestidae): III Pachyschelus and Hylaeogena. Entomological News, 85 (4), 102 - 107.