Leiopleura carbonata (LeConte) Hespenheide, Henry A., 2003

Hespenheide, Henry A., 2003, A Reconsideration of Pachyschelus schwarzi Kerremans and a Review of American Pachyschelus North of MÉxico (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), The Coleopterists Bulletin 57 (4), pp. 459-468 : 466

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1649/584

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5397816

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A82487DD-FFAD-FFBE-9826-4DB7FDF8277F

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scientific name

Leiopleura carbonata (LeConte)
status

comb. nov.

Leiopleura carbonata (LeConte) View in CoL , new combination

Brachys carbonata LeConte 1859:252 View in CoL .

Pachyschelus carbonatus (LeConte) , Nicolay and Weiss 1920:139.

This name has been been in synonymy under Pachyschelus laevigatus since the review of Nicolay and Weiss (1920). At the urging of Stanley Wellso, I examined the type and found it to be a species of Leiopleura , vindicating LeConte’s initial judgement that it was distinct. This raises the problem of the specimen’s origin, because it has apparently never been recollected in the United States and the only other known U.S. Leiopleura is the Antillean L. otero (Fisher) which occurs in southern Florida (Nelson et al. 1981). It is possible—and at this point more likely—that the specimen is mislabeled and that it is Central or South American in origin, although it does not match Central American species known to me. Its inclusion in the fauna of the United States should be considered hypothetical.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Buprestidae

Genus

Leiopleura

Loc

Leiopleura carbonata (LeConte)

Hespenheide, Henry A. 2003
2003
Loc

Brachys carbonata

LeConte 1859: 252
1859
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