Onthophagus surmelii Petrovitz, 1963

Bezděk, Aleš & Hájek, Jiří, 2013, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 53 (1), pp. 387-442 : 423

Onthophagus surmelii Petrovitz, 1963

Onthophagus sürmelii Petrovitz, 1963: p. 236 , Figs 2–4.

Two paratypes are deposited in NMPC (ex coll. V. Balthasar):

PARATYPE (J): ‘ Isparta [p] // Asia minor / leg. Petrovitz [p] // PARATYPUS [p, red label] // J [p] // O. sürmelii n. / Petrovitz [p]’.

PARATYPE (J): ‘Bulgar-dag: Namrun / leg. Petrovitz - Ressl [p] // PARATYPUS [p, red label] // O. sürmelii n. / Petrovitz [p] // ♀ [p]’.

Current status. Onthophagus (Palaeonthophagus) surmelii Petrovitz, 1963 , see, e.g. BARAUD (1992).

Remark. The species-group name was dedicated to Turk Yilmaz Sürmeli ( PETROVITZ 1963), thus its original spelling ‘sürmelii’ should be corrected to ‘surmelii’ ( ICZN 1999: Art. 32.5.2) and not to ‘suermelii’ as applied by BARAUD (1992), KABAKOV (2006), MARTÍN- PIERA & ZUNINO (1985, 1986), LÖBL et al. (2006) and ZIANI et al. (2011).