Seven New Species of Elaphidiini (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) from the Dominican Republic with Taxonomic Notes, New Country Records, and a Key toElaphidionAudinet-Serville from Hispaniola
Author
Lingafelter, Steven W.
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2008
2008-09-30
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/1110.1
journal article
10.1649/1110.1
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Elaphidion fullonium
Newman
(
Fig. 2
)
Elaphidion confusum
Fisher 1932: 32
,
new synonymy
Discussion.
The type of
E. fullonium
Newman (1841)
cannot be located in either the BMNH or Oxford Collection.
Elaphidion confusum
Fisher (1932)
(type locality of Hinche,
Haiti
) matches the original description of
E. fullonium
(type locality also of
Haiti
; shared characters include one apical elytral spine, no femoral spines, bispinose antennae), and I designate it as a
new synonym
of that species. I designate the
holotype
of Fisher’s
E. confusum
(
Fig. 2
) in the USNM as a
neotype
of
E. fullonium
to stabilize the nomenclature and species concept.