Robopus nefarius (E. Olivier)

Keller, Oliver & Branham, Marc A., 2021, A catalog of the Lampyridae (Coleoptera) of the West Indies, Zootaxa 4970 (1), pp. 53-105 : 93

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.4814205
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/216187AC-FF9A-1108-DAE2-CDE43ED7C7C6
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Robopus nefarius (E. Olivier)
status

Treatment

Robopus nefarius (E. Olivier) View in CoL

Pygolampis nefarius E. Olivier 1912b: 26 [original combination]

Photinus blandus Jacquelin du Val 1857: 87 View in CoL syn. [ Leng & Mutchler 1922: 470] (preoccupied)

Photinus nefarius (E. Olivier) View in CoL [revised combination by Leng & Mutchler 1922: 469]

Diphotus nefarius (E. Olivier) [new combination by McDermott 1955: 50]

Robopus nefarius (E. Olivier) View in CoL [new combination by McDermott 1964: 7]

DISTRIBUTION: CUBA: Cienfuegos, Granma, La Habana, Santiago de Cuba ( Jacquelin du Val 1857; Gemminger & de Harold 1869; Gorham 1880a; Stahl 1882b; Gundlach 1891; Gorham 1898; E. Olivier 1907, 1910, 1912b; Leng & Mutchler 1914, 1922; Mutchler 1923b; Blackwelder 1945; McDermott 1955, 1966; Blackwelder & Arnett 1974; Peck 2005; Branham 2006; Madruga & de Armas 2019). HAITI: ( Leng & Mutchler 1914). HISPAN-

IOLA: ( Blackwelder 1945; Blackwelder & Arnett 1974?)

TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba

TYPE DEPOSITORY: MNHN

REMARKS: Blackwelder (1945) and Blackwelder & Arnett (1974) mixed Photinus blandus Jacquelin du Val, 1857 ( Cuba record) and Pygolampis blanda Motchulsky, 1854c (Hispaniola record). The latter is most likely a species from Brazil placed in Lampyridae incertae sedis by McDermott (1966)