Bostrychoplites cornutus ( Olivier, 1790 )

Jerzy, Borowski, 2022, Taxonomic changes in Bostrichidae (Insecta, Coleoptera), Zootaxa 5154 (5), pp. 590-594 : 592

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scientific name	Bostrychoplites cornutus ( Olivier, 1790 )
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Bostrychoplites cornutus ( Olivier, 1790) View in CoL

Bostrichus cornutus Olivier, 1790: 108 View in CoL

Bostrichus abyssinicus Murray, 1867: 90

Bostrychoplites megaceros Lesne, 1899b n View in CoL . syn.

Geographical distribution: Africa south of Sahara, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, Saudi Arabia, Yemen (incl. Socotra); introduced to USA and Europe.

4. Bostrychoplites suturalis Lesne, 1931 and Bostrychoplites peltatus Lesne, 1899

Lesne described B. suturalis based on 4 females caught in the eastern and southern parts of Africa, e.g. Transvaal. The description was accompanied with figures of the elytral declivity of the species. On the other hand, B. peltatus was described over 30 years earlier based on a single female from Transvaal ( Lesne 1899b). While comparing both descriptions one can indeed imagine two separate species, however, in the description of B. peltatus P. Lesne made a mistake. After verification of the types of both species (MNHN) the described female of B. peltatus turned out to be a small male. An analysis of further material, mainly from South Africa (numerous specimens from the NHML collection) helped to establish that both described species just represented the opposite sexes of the same species. B. suturalis should thus be treated as a junior synonym of B. peltatus . Full synonymy of the species names along with its geographical distribution is presented below.

References

Lesne, P. (1899 b) Revision des Coleopteres de la famille des Bostrychides. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 67, 438 - 621.

Lesne, P. (1931) Un Bostrychidae african nouveau (Col.). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologicaque de France, 1931, 24 - 25. https: // doi. org / 10.3406 / bsef. 1931.28380

Murray, A. (1867) List of Coleoptera received from Old Calabar, on the West Coast of Africa. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany, and Geology, Series 3, 20 (116), 83 - 95. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222936708562731

Olivier, A. G. (1790) Encyclopedie methodique. Histoire naturelle. Insectes. Tome cinquieme. Chez Panckoucke, Imprimeur- Libraire, hotel de Thou, rue des Poitevins, Paris, 793 pp.