The mother of synonyms: on the Meotica species of the Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae, Oxypodini) Author Assing, Volker Author Vogel, Jürgen text Linzer biologische Beiträge 2019 2019-12-20 51 2 731 772 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.3738506 685869d3-363a-4373-8250-4d5abe080321 0253-116X 3738506 016AAB3F-8AE2-4759-B95A-DEAA074768CD Tectusa killinica nov.nom. Leptusa ( Micropisalia ) kuehnelti SCHEERPELTZ, 1963: 441 ff. Meotica kuhnelti [sic] ( SCHEERPELTZ, 1963 ): PACE (1980) . Meotica kuehnelti ( SCHEERPELTZ, 1963 ) : SMETANA (2004b) . Meotica kuehnelti ( SCHEERPELTZ, 1963 ) : SCHÜLKE & SMETANA (2015). Type material examined: Holotype ♀ : " ♀ / Ziria-Massiv , 2100 m , 21.IV.60, Felsspaltenmulm / Peloponnes , Griechenland , W. Kühnelt / Ziria, 2100 m , 21.IV.60 / ex coll. Scheerpeltz / Typus Leptusa ( Micropisalia ) Kühnelti O. Scheerpeltz / Meotica nec Leptusa , det. R. Pace 1979, tarsi 5-5-5 / Tectusa killinica nom. n. , det. V. Assing 2017" ( NHMW ). Comment: The original description of Leptusa kuehnelti is based on a unique "♂ (Typus)" collected "in Felsspaltenmulm in 2100 m Höhe am 21.4.1960 " in the Killini range, northeastern Pelopónnisos ( SCHEERPELTZ 1963 ). PACE (1980) subsequently examined the specimen, noticed it was a female, and transferred the species to the genus Meotica . The present revision of the holotype , however, revealed that the species belongs to Tectusa BERNHAUER, 1899. Tectusa kuehnelti ( SCHEERPELTZ, 1963 ) is preoccupied by T. kuehnelti ( SCHEERPELTZ, 1962 ), a species described from the same mountain range "in etwa 1600 m Höhe in einem Walde von Abies cephalonica " ( SCHEERPELTZ 1962 ) and distinguished by completely different coloration alone ( T. kuehnelti ( SCHEERPELTZ, 1962 ): forebody and abdominal apex pale reddish-brown; T. kuehnelti ( SCHEERPELTZ, 1963 ): forebody blackish-brown, abdomen uniformly blackish). Therefore, the junior secondary homonym T. kuehnelti ( SCHEERPELTZ, 1963 ) is replaced with the nomen novum Tectusa killinica .