Discodon nigrocephalum Pic, 1949

Biffi, Gabriel & Geiser, Michael, 2022, A revision of Discodon tricolor (Guérin-Méneville) and its mimics from the Atlantic forests of Brazil (Coleoptera: Cantharidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 834 (1), pp. 148-189 : 169-170

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.834.1907

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7017635

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scientific name

Discodon nigrocephalum Pic, 1949
status

 

Discodon nigrocephalum Pic, 1949

Fig. 5E–G View Fig

Discodon nigrocephalum Pic, 1949: 6 .

Discodon nigrocephalum – Delkeskamp 1977: 255 (catalogue).

Diagnosis

Similar to D. obscurior and D. tenuecostatum sp. nov. by the general coloration. It differs from these species by the wider head ( Fig. 5F View Fig ), apparently nearly as wide as the pronotum, the antennae black, and the elytra coriaceous, rough, without costulae ( Fig. 5E View Fig ).

Type material

Lectotype (here designated) BRAZIL • ♂; São Paulo, Vale do Rio Pardo ; Dec. 1898; E. Gounelle leg.; “ Museum Paris Coll. M. Pic ”; MNHN, Paris EC13556 ( Fig. 5E–G View Fig ).

Remarks

We were not able to examine the type specimen of D. nigrocephalum nor found similar specimens that could be attributed to this species. However, the photographs of the lectotype, deposited at the MNHN, Paris, enable the distinction between D. nigrocephalum on the one hand and D. obscurior and D. tenuecostatum sp. nov. on the other hand.

Distribution

Brazil (São Paulo state) ( Fig. 16 View Fig ).

MNHN

France, Paris, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Cantharidae

Genus

Discodon

Loc

Discodon nigrocephalum Pic, 1949

Biffi, Gabriel & Geiser, Michael 2022
2022
Loc

Discodon nigrocephalum

Delkeskamp K. 1977: 255
1977
Loc

Discodon nigrocephalum

Pic M. 1949: 6
1949
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