Piezophyllus Hope, 1842

Kundrata, Robin, 2017, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle subfamily Tetralobinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae), Zootaxa 4323 (2), pp. 151-184 : 176

Genus Piezophyllus Hope, 1842

Piezophyllus Hope, 1842: 76 .

Piezophilus Hope, 1842 : Costa et al. (1992): 879 [unavailable name, incorrect subsequent spelling ( ICZN 1999, Art. 33.3)]. Cladocerus Gemminger & Harold, 1869: 1509; synonymized by Hyslop (1921): 664. Coresus Candèze, 1891: 49 ; synonymized by Fleutiaux (1932): 155.

Dido Arnett, 1955: 600 ; synonymized by Laurent (1967): 97.

Hopelater Laurent, 1967: 99 ; synonymized by Costa et al. (1994): 120.

Type species of Piezophyllus . Tetralobus robustus Hope, 1842 (= synonym of P. macrocerus ).

Type species of Cladoceru s. Tetralobus macrocerus Laporte, 1838 .

Type species of Coresus . Tetralobus macrocerus Laporte, 1838 .

Type species of Dido . Tetralobus macrocerus Laporte, 1838 .

Type species of Hopelater . Piezophyllus spencei Hope, 1842 .

Literature. Hope (1842): original description; Lacordaire (1857): remarks; Candèze (1859): catalogue; Gemminger & Harold (1869): catalogue; Candèze (1891): catalogue; Fleutiaux (1902): species descriptions; Schwarz (1906): catalogue; Hyslop (1921): information on type species, Schenkling (1925): catalogue; Fleutiaux (1932): species description; Fleutiaux (1935): remark; Fleutiaux (1940): transfer to Tetralobinae ; Arnett (1955): remarks on type species; Basilewsky (1958): remark; Laurent (1967): revision; Girard (1971): catalogue, Costa et al. (1992): remark; Calder et al. (1993): remark; Costa et al. (1994): revision; Girard (2003): catalogue, resurrection of Hopelater ; Costa et al. (2010): handbook of zoology; Bouchard et al. (2011): nomenclature; Bousquet (2016): remark.

Remark 1. Hyslop (1921) erroneously designated T. spencei Hope, 1842 as the type species of Piezophyllus [see Laurent (1967) for more details].

Remark 2. Hopelater Laurent, 1967 was originally described as a subgenus in Piezophyllus Hope, 1842 . Costa et al. (1994) synonymized Hopelater with Piezophyllus based on a morphological analysis. Girard (2003) erected Hopelater to generic level. Herein, we follow the classification proposed by Costa et al. (1994) until more detailed investigation is carried out.