A revision of the genus Cholovocera Victor, 1838 (Coleoptera: Endomychidae)
Author
Delgado, Juan A.
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Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Murcia, 30100 Murcia, Spain.
jdelgado@um.es
Author
Palma, Ricardo L.
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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, P. O. Box 467, Wellington, New Zealand.
RicardoP@tepapa.govt.nz
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2023
2023-11-13
906
1
71
https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2329/10133
journal article
10.5852/ejt.2023.906.2329
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Colovocera oculata
Belon, 1891
Belon (1891: 878)
described
Colovocera oculata
from
10 specimens
collected in
Mandalay
(
Myanmar
), associated with
Paratrechina longicornis
. However,
Belon (1897: 117)
regarded his species as a junior synonym of “
Co
.”
maderae
, a position he maintained in a later paper (
Belon 1900: 140
). Considering the
type
locality and the ant-host association of
Co. oculata
, we believe that
Belon (1897
,
1900
) was most likely correct in synonymising these two species names.
Regardless of that synonymy,
Belon (1891)
described
Co. oculata
as having five or six ocelli in the ocular area, a confirmation that it cannot be included in
Cholovocera
, as we have defined it.