Metapyrophorus pharolim Rosa & Costa, 2009

Ferreira, Vinicius De Souza, 2015, An annotated catalogue of the type material of Elateroidea Leach, 1815 (Coleoptera) deposited in the Coleoptera collection of the Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, Zootaxa 3937 (2), pp. 263-310 : 285

Metapyrophorus pharolim Rosa & Costa, 2009 : 45

Holotype: 1 ♂. Caparo Trinidad, A. Heynes, Berlin–Wilm; n. sp. Collection Fleutiaux; MNHNP; [on red] Metapyrophorus pharolim Rosa & Costa, 2009 , Holótipo; [on red] Holótipo.

Conservation status: Good condition; genitalia and abdomen glued on a card under specimen. Paratypes: 2 ♂. Idem, parátipo.

Conservation status: Idem; one specimen with abdomen glued on card under specimen. Paratype: 1 ♂. St. Anns. Port of Spain, Trinidad, June. 28. 1957, M. Nieves; AMNH; [on red] Metapyrophorus pharolim Rosa & Costa, 2009 , Holótipo; [on red] Holótipo.

Conservation status: Good condition; genitalia into microvial with glycerinunder specimen. Paratypes: 1♂, 1 [unknown sex]. Venezuela, Inst. Zool. Agrícola, Fac. Agronomia, Univ. Central; J. Salgado, L. Rodriguez. V.; Venezuela—Monagas, Jasepin, 5–VI–1967; Venezuela; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Metapyrophorus pharolim Rosa & Costa, 2009 , Parátipo.

Conservation status: Good condition; one specimen with abdomen glued on a card under specimen; other specimen with head and abdomen glued on card under specimen and with genitalia into microvial with glycerin. Paratype: 1 [unknown sex]. Pie del Cerro, Morrocoy, T.F.A, 31–III–58; talvez ♀, estava sem a genitalia; MIS; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Metapyrophorus pharolim Rosa & Costa, 2009 , Parátipo.

Conservation status: Good condition; abdomen glued on card under specimen.

Additional note: translated from Portuguese: “maybe ♀, [the specimen was] without the genitalia”.