Bostrychoplites peltatus Lesne, 1899

Jerzy, Borowski, 2022, Taxonomic changes in Bostrichidae (Insecta, Coleoptera), Zootaxa 5154 (5), pp. 590-594 : 592

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.5.7

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:90D36C8C-C29F-4C84-AFA1-14F9CB1FF995

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6675150

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DE043E-FFE4-BA70-9BD5-FB53D81FC1D2

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Plazi

scientific name

Bostrychoplites peltatus Lesne, 1899
status

 

Bostrychoplites peltatus Lesne, 1899 View in CoL

Bostrychoplites peltatus Lesne, 1899b: 58 View in CoL (male)

Bostrychoplites suturalis Lesne, 1931: 24 View in CoL (female) n. syn.

Geographical distribution: Botswana, Namibia, RSA, Tanzania, Madagascar (introduced).

5. Lichenophanes fasciculatus ( Fall, 1909) and L. penicillatus ( Lesne, 1895)

Fall described L. fasciculatus based on a specimen from southern California (Santa Rosa) collected by Mr. Beyer. The syntype is in Harvard University collection, and very good-quality photographs of the specimen and labels can be found on the website of the MCZ .

Due to characteristic, very long and erect pubescence on the body (which is not found in any other species of the Lichenophanes genus), it cannot be doubted that L. fasciculatus is identical with L. penicillatus . The latter was described slightly earlier from Mexico (MNHN). So L. fasciculatus should be treated as a junior synonym of L. penicillatus . Full synonymy of the species is as follows:

MCZ

Museum of Comparative Zoology

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Bostrichidae

Genus

Bostrychoplites

Loc

Bostrychoplites peltatus Lesne, 1899

Jerzy, Borowski 2022
2022
Loc

Bostrychoplites suturalis

Lesne, P. 1931: 24
1931
Loc

Bostrychoplites peltatus Lesne, 1899b: 58

Lesne, P. 1899: 58
1899
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