Pseudothilmanus alatus Pic, 1918

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

Pseudothilmanus alatus Pic, 1918

Pseudothilmanus alatus Pic, 1918: 2.

Type depository.

Described based on an unknown number of specimens. Lectotype by present designation, with the following label data: "Type [red printed label] / Type [handwritten] / Nov. genus India [handwritten] / Pseudothilmanus alatus Pic [handwritten]" (treated as the holotype and figured by Kundrata and Bocak 2011a), male (MNHN).

Type locality.

India (without any further details).

Distribution.

India (Uttarakhand), Nepal.

Literature.

Pic (1918: 2): original description; Wittmer (1944: 215): catalogue; Kundrata and Bocak (2011a: 59): revision, figures of male habitus, antenna, pronotum, leg, elytral apex, pregenital segments, and genitalia; Roza (2020: 421): morphology, distribution, figures of male habitus, pronotum, and hind wing [2018 erroneously used as the date of the original description of this species in figure caption]. In addition to the aforementioned literature, this species was included in a PhD thesis by Roza (2022).

Remarks.

Roza (2020) listed Uttar Pradesh for the distribution of this species; however, it was based on the specimen from NHMUK mentioned by Kundrata and Bocak (2011a), which was collected in western Almora, Kumaon which lies in Uttarakhand (considered to be part of Uttar Pradesh prior to 2000).