Coelioxys (Paracoelioxys) elongatulus “ Alfken, 1938 ”

Notes. This name is likely a confusion with Coelioxys elegantulus Alfken, 1934 . Coelioxys elegantulus is the only Coelioxys mentioned in Alfken (1938), which contains no description of Coelioxys . The first mention of C. elongatulus appears in the checklist of Ornosa et al. (2007: 128). The name “ C. elongatulus ” was later used by Özbek & Schwarz (2016), who distinguished it in their list of Turkish Coelioxys from C. elongatus Lepeletier, 1841 and C. elegantulus . However, this also appears to be a mistake due to a confusion between the names of C. elegantulus and C. elongatulus, as Özbek & Schwarz claim that C. elongatulus Alfken, 1938, was reported from Bursa by Friese in 1895; this publication only reports C. elongatus . Finally, the name of C. elongatulus does not figure in the review of the European member of the afra species group (Pasteels 1982), nor in the review of Warncke (1992c) where only C. elegantulus is featured. As a result, the name of C. elongatulus that circulates in the literature appears to be a nomen nudum.