A new species of Micropodabrus Pic from Hainan, China, and a new name to replace M. coomani (Pic) (Coleoptera, Cantharidae) Author Yang, Yu-Xia Author Yang, Xing-Ke text Zootaxa 2009 2014 65 68 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.185880 75e1365c-cac3-4ef1-929e-1dff579c4a7b 1175-5326 185880 Micropodabrus wittmeri nom. nov. Rhagonycha coomani Pic, 1935 : 12 . Kandyosilis coomani ; Wittmer, 1989 : 226 . The specific name M. coomani involves three species. Wittmer (1997) transferred Lycocerus impressicornis Pic (1925) to Micropodabrus , but this became a homonym with M. impressicornis ( Pic, 1921 ) transferred from Fissocanthris , so he renamed the former to M. pici . However, Švihla (2004) pointed out that Wittmer did not take the two synonyms, L. coomani Pic (1926) and L. pallidior Pic (1926) , into account so that M. pici Wittmer (1997) became a junior objective synonym of M. coomani ( Pic, 1926 ) . In our study, we discovered that Kandyosilis coomani ( Pic, 1935 ) transferred from Rhagonycha by Wittmer (1989) and attributed to Micropodabrus by Wittmer (1997) , is a secondary homonym of M. coomani ( Pic, 1926 ) , thus we rename it M. wittmeri nom. nov., in order to memorialize Dr. W. Wittmer who contributed much to the taxonomy of Cantharidae .