Amblycerus gravidus ( Sharp, 1885 )

MORSE, GEOFFREY E. & RIBEIRO-COSTA, CIBELE STRAMARE, 2024, New and Confirmed Combinations of New World Bruchinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) with a List of incertae sedis Species, Zootaxa 5543 (1), pp. 57-82 : 74

Amblycerus gravidus ( Sharp, 1885) . Combination confirmed.

Spermophagus gravidus Sharp, 1885: p. 493 . From Sharp (1885, p. 494): “ Mexico, Almolonga, Jalapa ( Höge ); Guatemala, San Geronimo , San Joaquin , Mirandilla ( Champion )” [ Mexico and Guatemala]. Syntypes deposited in the BMNH. There is a specimen in London with the labels “San Geronimo / Vera Paz. / Champion” with a “ Lectotype ” label affixed, but no lectotype has been published. So , this must remain a syntype.

Spermophagus gravidus : Pic (1913), p. 59 (catalog); Fery (2013), p. 45 (catalog).

Amblycerus gravidus : Blackwelder (1946), p. 762 (catalog, comb. nov.); Wilcox (1975), p. 1 (catalog); Johnson & Kingsolver (1981), p. 410 (catalog); Udayagiri & Wadhi (1989), p. 10 (catalog); Romero-Nápoles & Johnson (2004), p. 616 (catalog).