Tetralobus rotundifrons Guérin-Méneville, 1847

Kundrata, Robin, 2017, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle subfamily Tetralobinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae), Zootaxa 4323 (2), pp. 151-184 : 172-173

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Tetralobus rotundifrons Guérin-Méneville, 1847
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Tetralobus rotundifrons Guérin-Méneville, 1847

Tetralobus rotundifrons Guérin-Méneville, 1847: 52 .

Tetralobus amakosus Candèze, 1857: 376 [as in litteris name attributed to Dupont, nomen nudum]. Tetralobus glaber Candèze, 1857: 376 [as in litteris name attributed to Buquet, nomen nudum]. Tetralobus heros Boheman, 1851: 377 ; synonymized by Candèze (1857): 375.

Tetralobus rondanii Bertoloni, 1849: 423 [as rondani , see Remark 2]; synonymized by Laurent (1964d): 862.

Type depositories. T. rotundifrons : Type, female (RBINS); T. heros : Syntype, male (NRMS); number and location of remaining syntypes unknown; T. rondani : Holotype, sex unknown (collection unknown).

Type localities. T. rotundifrons : South Africa: Durban ["Port Natal"; but see the remark]; T. heros : South Africa: Natal ["Caffraria tota"]; T. rondani : Mozambique: Inhambane.

Distribution. Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Literature. Guérin-Méneville (1847): original description of T. rotundifrons ; Bertoloni (1849): original description of T. rondani ; Guérin-Méneville (1849): redescription; Boheman (1851): original description of T. heros ; Candèze (1857): catalogue; Lacordaire (1857): remark; Klug (1862): catalogue; Gemminger & Harold (1869): catalogue; Harold (1879): remark; Quedenfeldt (1886): remark; Fairmaire (1887): remark; Quedenfeldt (1888): remark; Waterhouse (1888): remark; Candèze (1891): catalogue; Candèze (1893): remark; Schwarz (1896): remark; Kolbe (1897): catalogue; Schwarz (1906): catalogue; Heyne & Taschenberg (1908): catalogue; Fleutiaux (1919): catalogue; Schenkling (1925): catalogue; Fleutiaux (1940): remark; Bünzli & Büttiker (1957): remark; Ferreira (1963): catalogue; Laurent (1964d): revision; Laurent (1965a): remark; Laurent (1965b): distributional note; Laurent (1967): checklist; Girard (1979): distributional note; Wang (1987): remark [probably an error]; Costa et al. (1994): revision.

Remark 1. G uérin-Méneville (1847) described T. rotundifrons together with other taxa from Abyssinia (= Ethiopia), but without exact locality data. However, Laurent (1964d) stated that the type specimen of T. rotundifrons comes from Port Natal (Durban) in South Africa. The type specimen deposited at the RBINS bears the label " Abyssinie, Natal" (J. Constant, pers. com.). The specimen labelled by Laurent as " Type glaber " ( T. glaber ) from Natal is deposited at the BMNH.

Remark 2. Although this species was dedicated to Carlo Róndani, Bertoloni (1849) used the spelling rondani in the original description, followed by Candèze (1857, 1891, 1893) and Lacordaire (1857). Gemminger & Harold (1869) corrected the spelling to rondanii and this spelling was used by Schwarz (1906), Fleutiaux (1919), Schenkling (1925), Ferreira (1963), and Laurent (1964d, 1965a, 1967). We deem this to be the correct original spelling in application of Art. 33.3.1. of the Code ( ICZN 1999).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Elateridae

Genus

Tetralobus

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Tetralobus rotundifrons Guérin-Méneville, 1847

Kundrata, Robin 2017
2017
Loc

Tetralobus amakosus Candèze, 1857 : 376

Candeze 1857: 376
Candeze 1857: 376
Candeze 1857: 375
Boheman 1851: 377
1857
Loc

Tetralobus rondanii

Laurent 1964: 862
Bertoloni 1849: 423
1849
Loc

Tetralobus rotundifrons Guérin-Méneville, 1847 : 52

Guerin-Meneville 1847: 52
1847
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