Anobium micans Fabricius 1792

Jelínek, Josef, 2007, Nomenclatural changes in the family Ciidae (Coleoptera), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 47, pp. 135-141 : 137

Anobium micans Fabricius 1792

Material examined. Two SYNTYPES ( ZMHB), one of them with missing head, prothorax and left elytron, both with common handwritten label: ‘Micans* n./ Anob. micans F* Pr *Pz*/ An. festivum m. Pz./ An. hispidum Pz. *’.The completely preserved specimen is designated as lectotype and labelled: ‘/53117 [white label, printed] // Hist.-Coll. ( Coleoptera ) / Nr.53117 (2 Ex.) / Cis micans Fabr. / Germania-Anglia / Zool. Mus. Berlin [white, printed] // SYN- TYPUS / Anobium micans / Fabricius 1792 / labelled by MNHUB 2000 [red, printed] // LECTOTYPUS / Anobium micans Fabricius 1792 / des.J. Jelínek 2006 [red, printed and handwritten]’.The second specimens is labelled: ‘Hist.- Coll. ( Coleoptera ) / Nr.53117 (2 Ex.) / Cis micans Fabr. / Germania - Anglia / Zool. Mus. Berlin [white, printed] // SYNTYPUS / Anobium micans / Fabricius 1792 / labelled by MNHUB 2000 [red, printed] // PARALECTOTYPUS / Anobium micans Fabricius 1792 / des. J. Jelínek 2006 [red, printed and handwritten]’.

Both specimens belong to the species currently known as Cis hispidus ( Paykull, 1798) . Anobium micans Fabricius, 1792 , has priority and must be the valid name of the species. The latter name has been used for a different species of the genus Cis ( Cis micans auct., non Fabricius, 1792) whose only available name seems to be Cis submicans Abeille de Perrin, 1874 . This nominal taxon was described by ABEILLE DE PERRIN (1874) as Cis setiger var. submicans and said to combine body shape and some other traits of Cis setiger Mellié, 1849 , with the uniform pubescence of Cis micans . It was subsequently synonymized with Cis micans by REITTER (1901) and the synonymy was accepted by DALLA TORRE (1911) and ABDULLAH (1973). Unfortunately, I was not able to examine any type specimen of Cis submicans .