Alphitobius arnoldi, Schawaller, Wolfgang & Grimm, Roland, 2014

Schawaller, Wolfgang & Grimm, Roland, 2014, The genus Alphitobius Stephens (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Alphitobiini) in Africa and adjacent islands, ZooKeys 415, pp. 169-190 : 170-171

Alphitobius arnoldi nom. n. Figs 4, 19

Alphitobius ulomoides Koch, 1953 (homonym, not Cryptops ulomoides Solier, 1851, syn. n.)

Type specimens examined.

Zimbabwe (labelled as S Rhodesia), Bulawayo, leg. G. Arnold, holotype TMSA (sex not examined).

New material.

Somalia, Car-Car Mts., IX.1959, leg. C. Koch, 2 ex. TMSA (det. Ferrer). - Somalia, Gardo, 810 m, 22.X.1957, leg. G. Scortecci, 1 ex. TMSA. - Kenya, Witu, Lamu, Wangi, without date, leg. G. Denhardt, 1 ex. ZSM, 3 ex. MNB (det. Bremer). - Tanzania, Mgorogoro Prov. 10 km N Mikumi, 11.I.2007, leg. F. Kantner, 1 ex. SMNS.

Type locality.

“Bulawayo”.

Remarks.

Cryptops ulomoides Solier, 1851 from Chile is a junior synonym of Alphitobius diaperinus (Panzer, 1796) (see below). Thus Alphitobius ulomoides Koch, 1953 is a homonym and must have a new name, arnoldi nom. n.

Etymology.

The new name is derived in honor of George Arnold (1881-1963), former curator in the "Rhodesia Museum" (now Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo), specialist of African Hymenoptera , and collector of the holotype.

Distribution.

Zimbabwe, Congo ( Koch 1953); Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania (new records).