Tetralobus shuckhardi ( Hope, 1842 )

Kundrata, Robin, 2017, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle subfamily Tetralobinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae), Zootaxa 4323 (2), pp. 151-184 : 174

Tetralobus shuckhardi ( Hope, 1842)

Piezophyllus shuckhardi Hope, 1842: 76 .

Tetralobus shuckhardi ( Hope, 1842) : Schwarz (1906): 58.

Tetralobus dufouri Candèze, 1857: 378 [as dufourii ; see the Remark]; synonymized by Candèze (1891): 48. Tetralobus shuckhardi f. i. attritus Laurent, 1965: 676 [unavailable name ( ICZN 1999, Art. 45.6.3)]. Tetralobus cylindricus Laurent, 1965a: 674 [as in litteris name attributed to Buquet, nomen nudum]. Tetralobus dumolinii Hope, 1842: 76 [as in litteris name attributed to Dupont, nomen nudum].

Type depositories. T. shuckhardi : Type, male (OUMNH); T. dufouri : Lectotype, male (RBINS).

Type localities. T. shuckhardi : unknown; T. dufouri : Senegal (lectotype), South Africa: Cape of Good Hope.

Distribution. Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Literature. Hope (1842): original description of T. shuckhardi ; Candèze (1857): original description of T. dufourii ; Lacordaire (1857): remark; Candèze (1859): remark; Gemminger & Harold (1869): catalogue; Quedenfeldt (1886): remark; Waterhouse (1888): remark; Candèze (1891): catalogue; Schwarz (1906): catalogue; Fleutiaux (1919): catalogue; Schenkling (1925): catalogue; Fleutiaux (1926): catalogue; Bünzli & Büttiker (1957): remark; Laurent (1964a): key; Laurent (1965a): revision; Laurent (1967): checklist; Gurjeva (1974): classification; Costa et al. (1994): revision; Riese (1994): catalogue; Girard (2003): catalogue; Girard et al. (2007): description of larva; Costa et al. (2010): handbook of zoology; Costa & Vanin (2010): remark; Rosa et al. (2015): remark.

Remark. Although T. dufouri was dedicated to L. J. M. Dufour, Candèze (1857, 1859) used the spelling dufourii . Gemminger & Harold (1869) corrected the spelling to dufouri and this spelling has been in use since then. We deem this to be the correct original spelling in application of Art. 33.3.1. of the Code ( ICZN 1999).