Micropodabrus wittmeri

Yang, Yu-Xia & Yang, Xing-Ke, 2009, A new species of Micropodabrus Pic from Hainan, China, and a new name to replace M. coomani (Pic) (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), Zootaxa 2014, pp. 65-68 : 67

Micropodabrus wittmeri nom. nov.

Rhagonycha coomani Pic, 1935: 12 .

Kandyosilis coomani ; Wittmer, 1989: 226.

The specific name M. coomani involves three species. Wittmer (1997) transferred Lycocerus impressicornis Pic (1925) to Micropodabrus , but this became a homonym with M. impressicornis ( Pic, 1921) transferred from Fissocanthris, so he renamed the former to M. pici . However, Švihla (2004) pointed out that Wittmer did not take the two synonyms, L. coomani Pic (1926) and L. pallidior Pic (1926) , into account so that M. pici Wittmer (1997) became a junior objective synonym of M. coomani ( Pic, 1926) .

In our study, we discovered that Kandyosilis coomani ( Pic, 1935) transferred from Rhagonycha by Wittmer (1989) and attributed to Micropodabrus by Wittmer (1997), is a secondary homonym of M. coomani ( Pic, 1926) , thus we rename it M. wittmeri nom. nov., in order to memorialize Dr. W. Wittmer who contributed much to the taxonomy of Cantharidae .