Tetartopeus ciceronii ZANETTI, 1998

Comment: In a recent paper, BORDONI (2013) proposed several, partly rather bizarre synonymies, among them the (repeated) synonymy of T. ciceronii with T. rufonitidus REITTER (1909), without providing any new evidence whatsoever. As argued in detail earlier (ASSING 2008), T. ciceroni undoubtedly represents a distinct species differing from T. rufonitidus in numerous constant characters and is consequently revalidated.