Lycocerus fairmairei Y. Yang & X. Yang

Yang, Yuxia, Kopetz, Andreas & Yang, Xingke, 2013, Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the genera Themus Motschulsky and Lycocerus Gorham (Coleoptera, Cantharidae), ZooKeys 340, pp. 1-19 : 6-7

Lycocerus fairmairei Y. Yang & X. Yang nom. n. et stat. rev. Figs 9, 19−21, 23

Telephorus dimidiaticrus Fairmaire 1889: 41.

Athemus dimidiaticrus : Wittmer 1972a: 106. [Synonymized with Athemus orientalis (Gorham, 1889) by Wittmer 1995: 255. Secondary homonym, preoccupied by Lycocerus dimidiaticrus (Fairmaire, 1889: 40), originally in Podabrus .]

Lycocerus orientalis (Gorham, 1889): Kazantsev and Brancucci 2007: 252.

Type material examined.

Telephorus dimidiaticrus : Holotype ♂ (MNHN): [h]"Telephorus \ dimidiaticrus \ Fairm. \ Koui Tchéou”, [h]"Athemus \ prattianus \ (Gorh.) \ det. W. Wittmer", [h]"Lycocerus \ dimidiaticrus (Fairm.) \ det. Y. X. Yang, 2009", [p] “HOLOTYPUS”.

Additional material examined.

CHINA: Fujian: 1♂ (NHMB): "Fukien. Kuatun, 22.IV.1946"; 1♂ (NHMB): same locality, 1.V.1946; 1♀ (NHMB): same locality, 2.V.1946; 1♀ (IZAS): Jianyang, Huangkeng, Aotou, 950m, 5.V.1960, leg. Yong Zuo; 1♂ (IZAS): same locality, 800−1050m, 26.IV.1960, leg. Cheng-Lin Ma.

Distribution.

China (Fujian, Guizhou).

Etymology.

The new name is named after L. Fairmaire, the taxonomist who described this species.

Remarks.

Fairmaire described a Podabrus dimidiaticrus Fairmaire, 1889: 40 which became Athemellus dimidiaticrus by Wittmer (1972b) and now Lycocerus dimidiaticrus (Fairmaire, 1889), which however was neglected by Kazantsev and Brancucci (2007), and in the same original publication also a Telephorus dimidiaticrus Fairmaire, 1889: 41 which became Athemus dimidiaticrus by Wittmer (1972a) and now to be placed in Lycocerus , the two species become secondary homonyms and the junior is invalid (ICZN, 4th, article 57.31.), so that a new name is needed, Lycocerus fairmairei nom. n., to replace the name of the latter species.

At the same time, having examined the holotype of Telephorus dimidiaticrus and lectotype of Lycocerus orientalis (Gorham, 1889) (1♂ (NHMB): [p]"Foochau \ April, 1886 \ Leech.", [h]"A. orientalis", [p] “LECTOTYPE”, [p]"CANTHARIDAE \ CANTH00001609".), we found that the formeris distinctly different from the latter in the aedeagus (Figs 19−21; the latter’s, see Wittmer 1995: figs. 109, 110), so we suggest Telephorus dimidiaticrus Fairmaire, 1889: 41, with its new replacement name Lycocerus fairmairei nom. n., to be resurrected from synonymy with Lycocerus orientalis .