Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle subfamily Tetralobinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae)
Author
Kundrata, Robin
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-09-21
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Tetralobus rotundifrons
Guérin-Méneville, 1847
Tetralobus rotundifrons
Guérin-Méneville, 1847
: 52
.
Tetralobus amakosus
Candèze, 1857
: 376
[as
in litteris
name attributed to Dupont,
nomen nudum
].
Tetralobus glaber
Candèze, 1857
: 376
[as
in litteris
name attributed to Buquet,
nomen nudum
].
Tetralobus heros
Boheman, 1851
: 377
; synonymized by
Candèze (1857)
: 375
.
Tetralobus rondanii
Bertoloni, 1849
: 423
[as
rondani
, see Remark 2]; synonymized by
Laurent (1964d)
: 862
.
Type depositories.
T. rotundifrons
: Type, female (RBINS);
T. heros
: Syntype, male (NRMS); number and location of remaining syntypes unknown;
T. rondani
: Holotype, sex unknown (collection unknown).
Type localities.
T. rotundifrons
: South Africa: Durban ["Port Natal"; but see the remark];
T. heros
: South Africa: Natal ["Caffraria tota"];
T. rondani
: Mozambique: Inhambane.
Distribution.
Angola
,
Democratic Republic of the
Congo
,
Ethiopia
,
Guinea
,
Malawi
,
Mozambique
,
Namibia
,
South
Africa
,
Tanzania
,
Uganda
,
Zambia
,
Zimbabwe
.
Literature.
Guérin-Méneville (1847)
: original description of
T. rotundifrons
;
Bertoloni (1849)
: original description of
T. rondani
;
Guérin-Méneville (1849)
: redescription;
Boheman (1851)
: original description of
T. heros
;
Candèze (1857)
: catalogue;
Lacordaire (1857)
: remark;
Klug (1862)
: catalogue;
Gemminger & Harold (1869)
: catalogue;
Harold (1879)
: remark;
Quedenfeldt (1886)
: remark;
Fairmaire (1887)
: remark;
Quedenfeldt (1888)
: remark;
Waterhouse (1888)
: remark;
Candèze (1891)
: catalogue;
Candèze (1893)
: remark;
Schwarz (1896)
: remark;
Kolbe (1897)
: catalogue;
Schwarz (1906)
: catalogue;
Heyne & Taschenberg (1908)
: catalogue;
Fleutiaux (1919)
: catalogue;
Schenkling (1925)
: catalogue;
Fleutiaux (1940)
: remark;
Bünzli & Büttiker (1957)
: remark;
Ferreira (1963)
: catalogue;
Laurent (1964d)
: revision;
Laurent (1965a)
: remark;
Laurent (1965b)
: distributional note;
Laurent (1967)
: checklist;
Girard (1979)
: distributional note;
Wang (1987)
: remark [probably an error];
Costa
et al
. (1994)
: revision.
Remark 1. G
uérin-Méneville (1847) described
T. rotundifrons
together with other taxa from
Abyssinia
(=
Ethiopia
), but without exact locality data. However,
Laurent (1964d)
stated that the
type
specimen of
T. rotundifrons
comes from Port Natal (Durban) in
South
Africa
. The
type
specimen deposited at the RBINS bears the label "
Abyssinie
, Natal" (J. Constant, pers. com.). The specimen labelled by Laurent as "
Type
glaber
" (
T. glaber
) from Natal is deposited at the BMNH.
Remark 2.
Although this species was dedicated to Carlo Róndani,
Bertoloni (1849)
used the spelling
rondani
in the original description, followed by
Candèze (1857
,
1891
,
1893
) and
Lacordaire (1857)
.
Gemminger & Harold (1869)
corrected the spelling to
rondanii
and this spelling was used by
Schwarz (1906)
,
Fleutiaux (1919)
,
Schenkling (1925)
,
Ferreira (1963)
, and
Laurent (1964d
,
1965a
,
1967
). We deem this to be the correct original spelling in application of Art. 33.3.1. of the Code (
ICZN 1999
).