Rhagophthalmus scutellatus Motschulsky, 1854

Kundrata, Robin, Hoffmannova, Johana, Hinson, Kevin R., Keller, Oliver & Packova, Gabriela, 2022, Rhagophthalmidae Olivier, 1907 (Coleoptera, Elateroidea): described genera and species, current problems, and prospects for the bioluminescent and paedomorphic beetle lineage, ZooKeys 1126, pp. 55-130 : 55

Rhagophthalmus scutellatus Motschulsky, 1854

Rhagophthalmus scutellatus Motschulsky, 1854: 45.

Type depository.

Holotype, male (ZMM).

Type locality.

China: Beijing.

Distribution.

China (Beijing, Fujian, Jiangsu/Shanghai).

Literature.

Motschulsky (1854: 45): original description; Motschulsky (1859: 59): remark, drawings of male habitus, lateral head, and leg; Gemminger (1869: 1655): catalogue; Olivier (1885: 372): comparison with R. sumatrensis ; Heyden (1886: 286): remark; Fairmaire (1888: 25): comparison with R. giganteus ; Fairmaire (1889: 353): comparison with R. tonkineus ; Bourgeois (1892: 236): distributional note; Cardon (1892: 238): checklist; Fairmaire (1899: 624): comparison with R. gibbosulus ; Olivier (1902: 88): catalogue; Olivier (1910: 1): catalogue; Jakobson (1911: 687): catalogue; Olivier (1912: 470): revision; Pic (1916: 9): comparison with R. notaticollis ; Lucas (1920: 567): catalogue; Winkler (1925: 522): catalogue; Pic (1938: 15): checklist; McDermott (1964: 49): remark; McDermott (1966: 122): catalogue; Wittmer and Ohba (1994: 343): taxonomy, morphology, drawings of male genitalia; Wittmer (1997: 261): taxonomy, morphology, distribution, drawings of male genitalia; Kawashima and Satô (2001: 423): remark, comparison with R. jenniferae ; Hua (2002: 71): catalogue; Kawashima et al. (2003: 255): remark, catalogue; Kawashima and Sugaya (2003: 358): remark, identification key; Bocak (2007: 225): catalogue; Li et al. (2008a: 264): comparison with R. gibbosulus , distribution; Li et al. (2008b: 494): review; Suzuki and Kobayashi (2009: 30): remark; Chen et al. (2010: 196): remark; Lawrence et al. (2011: 7): phylogeny; Yiu (2017: 60): remark, comparison with R. hiemalis ; Lawrence et al. (2021: 456): wing morphology, figure of hind wing. In addition to the aforementioned literature, this species was included in a PhD thesis by Roza (2022).