Cautires africanus

Dudkova, Pavla & Bocak, Ladislav, 2010, A review of the Cautires obsoletus species group from Indo – Burma (Coleoptera: Lycidae), Zootaxa 2527, pp. 28-48 : 46

Cautires africanus nom. n.

Cautires reticulatus Kleine, 1930b: 9 ; a junior secondary homonym of Cautires reticulatus ( Kleine, 1930a) . Remark. Although the exact dates of publication are not available, we consider Cautires reticulatus ( Kleine, 1930a) to be an older name as it was published in the number 3 of Treubia and Cautires reticulatus Kleine, 1930 b in the annually published Revue de zoologie et de botanique africaines (volume 19, presumed to be published on Dec. 31, 1930).

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the area of occurrence.