Achilia validicorniformis Franz, 1996

Kurbatov, Sergey A., Cuccodoro, Giulio & Sabella, Giorgio, 2018, A revision of the Chilean Brachyglutini – Part 3. Revision of Achilia Reitter, 1890: A. frontalis species group (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), Revue suisse de Zoologie 125 (1), pp. 165-188 : 184

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.1196048
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5589394
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scientific name	Achilia validicorniformis Franz, 1996
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Achilia validicornisformis Franz, 1996: 117 fig. 66 (aedeagus).

Type material (17 ex.): CENTRAL CHILE: Región Los Lagos: Chiloé prov.: NHMW (coll. Franz); 1 ♂ (holotype); Chiloé Island, Chepu ; 20.II.1990; T. Cekalovic. – NHMW (coll. Franz); 5 ♂ (4 without label of locality) and 11 ♀ (10 without label of locality) (paratypes); same data; T. Cekalovic .

Comments: We have examined the types of this species and found that all the specimens (holotype and paratypes) belong without doubt to Achilia larvata ( Reitter, 1885) , one of the species we recently revised ( Sabella et al., 2017). Therefore we here place Achilia validicorniformis Franz, 1996 as a junior synonym of A. larvata ( Reitter, 1885) (syn. nov.).