Saxistena

Löbl, I. & Merkl, O., 2003, On The Type Species Of Several Tenebrionid Genera And Subgenera (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae), Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 49 (3), pp. 243-253 : 251-252

Saxistena

KOCH (1940a: 65) described Saxistena as a subgenus of Mesostena ESCHSCHOLTZ, 1831 to include M. longicornis KRAATZ, 1865 (with its subspecies, M. longicornis cavatica ANDRES, 1926 ) and two new species, M. mequignoni and M. ibnsaudi . Later, KOCH (1940 b) added to Saxistena a new subspecies, M. longicornis rothi , but a type species was not designated in any of these two papers of KOCH. The original description given by KOCH (1940 a: 65) characterizes the group. We designate here as the type species Mesostena longicornis KRAATZ, 1865 .

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Acknowledgements – The authors thank Dr. L. H. HERMAN (American Museum of Natural History, New York) and Dr. L. PAPP (Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest) for precious advice and reviewing this paper.