Celiasis Laporte, 1840: 263

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Celiasis Laporte, 1840: 263 .

Type species: Lycus mirabilis Laporte, 1840 . Remarks

The genus name Celiasis has not been used except in old literature and catalogues ( Bourgeois, 1883; Kleine, 1933; Blackwelder, 1945). This genus was proposed in a short note attached to the description of Lycus mirabilis Laporte, 1840 from Columbia. Laporte (1840) characterized it as an insect with a triangular head terminating in a point, an almost rectangular pronotum and dilated, convex elytra. The original specimen was in Laporte’s collection destroyed in 1843 ( Evenhuis, 2012), and we do not have access to any Columbian species resembling Celiasis mirabilis Laporte, 1840 because this genus has never been reported again. Its distribution and phenetic similarity raise the possibility that Neolycus and Celiasis are congeneric. Given that we cannot designate the neotype, which would be necessary for the stability of the nomenclature, we have to keep this taxon as a nomen dubium in the classification. Only new specimens from Columbia can provide further information about its relationships to other Neotropical genera.