Stephanocephalus stellaris, Kaup, 1869

Bezděk, Aleš, Boucher, Stéphane, Hájek, Jiří & Cas, Biology Centre, 2017, Catalogue of type specimens of beetles (Coleoptera) deposited in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 57 (1), pp. 279-293 : 290

Stephanocephalus stellaris var.? colombinus Kuwert, 1891

Stephanocephalus stellaris var.? colombinus Kuwert, 1891: 188.

One unsexed specimen:‘leg. Saussure? /? Mexico [hw Nickerl, green label, black frame] // St.colombinus / Kuwert typ! / Mexico Kuw 162 [hw Nickerl] // Coll. Nickerl / Mus. Pragense [p]’.

Remark. This specimen is not conspecific with the type from Kuwert’s collection and it does not correspond to the original description, which indicates a total length of 23 mm (the above mentioned specimen is smaller, 20.5 mm) and the type locality ‘Columbia’. The taxon has been listed within Stephanocephalus Kaup, 1869 – the incertae sedis group of the family Passalidae ( HINCKS & DIBB 1935) , then it was transferred to Leptaulax Kaup, 1868 . Its type locality was identified as erroneous and replaced by an undetermined Asiatic region (see BOUCHER 1989). The current status of the species within Leptaulax remains to be clarified.

Passalinae: Macrolinini