Amydetes detrusa Olivier, 1907

Silveira, Luiz Felipe Lima Da & Mermudes, José Ricardo M., 2014, Systematic review of the firefly genus Amydetes Illiger, 1807 (Coleoptera: Lampyridae), with description of 13 new species, Zootaxa 3765 (3), pp. 201-248 : 209

Amydetes detrusa Olivier, 1907

Amydetes detrusus Olivier, 1907b ; Laporte, 1833: 127; 1840: 264; Lacordaire, 1857: 334; Blackwelder, 1957: 360. (lis.); McDermott, 1966: 77 (cat.).

Description 1. Body elongate, narrow, pitchy. Prothorax yellow, short, rounded, riddled, sulcate, posterior angle acute. Scutellum black. Elytron narrow, elongate, slightly dehiscent, rugous, with three costae, black, distinct, with a yellowish humeral macula, extended up to half the elytral margin. Leg black.

Type-material. Amydetes detrusa was described from specimens deposted at Bruch’s collection ( Olivier 1907b). The type was cited from Uruguay: Maldonado. We chased this material in the collection of the argentine entomologist Carlos Bruch, actually split between Museo De Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia and the Museo La Plata ( Argentina). The material is present neither in these collection anymore, nor in the the Olivier's excollection, or any of the visited Instituions.

Comments. The original description did not allow us to properly identify any of the studied specimens as Amydetes detrusa . As we didn’t find the type-material of this species, we keep the originial description.