Alecton discoidalis Laporte, 1833

Keller, Oliver & Branham, Marc A., 2021, A catalog of the Lampyridae (Coleoptera) of the West Indies, Zootaxa 4970 (1), pp. 53-105 : 62

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4970.1.2
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:64DAD679-5885-4700-92E2-EBD7DA6BCD40
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4756272
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/216187AC-FFBB-1129-DAE2-C9103C88C302
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Alecton discoidalis Laporte
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Alecton discoidalis Laporte View in CoL

Alecton discoidalis Laporte 1833: 135 View in CoL

DISTRIBUTION: CUBA: Cienfuegos, La Habana, Las Tunas, Matanzas ( Laporte 1833; Laporte 1840; Motschulsky 1953; Jacquelin du Val 1857; Lacordaire 1857; Gemminger & de Harold 1869; Gundlach 1891; Gorham 1898; E. Olivier 1907, 1909a, 1910, 1911a, 1912b; Leng & Mutchler 1914, 1922; Mutchler 1923a; Blackwelder 1945; Green 1959; McDermott 1964, 1966; Blackwelder & Arnett 1974; Peck 2005; Branham 2006; Madruga Rios & Hernández Quinta 2010; Madruga 2018; Madruga & de Armas 2019; Madruga & Branham 2020)

TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba

TYPE DEPOSITORY: MNHN

REMARKS: The name Alecton dorsalis was only used a few times ( Lacordaire (1857), Leng & Mutchler (1922), McDermott (1966), Blackwelder (1945), Blackwelder & Arnett (1974)). There is no evidence of a species with that particular name.