Phaenops fulvoguttata ( Harris, 1829 )

Westcott, Richard L. & Bílý, Svatopluk, 2018, Lectotype designations in Acmaeodera Eschscholtz and Anthaxia Eschscholtz, and new synonymy in Phaenops Dejean and Anthaxia (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Zootaxa 4471 (3), pp. 590-594 : 592

Phaenops fulvoguttata ( Harris, 1829)

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Buprestis fulvoguttata Harris, 1829: 2 .

Melanophila horni Obenberger, 1944: 319 . syn. nov.

We have examined what we consider to be the holotype of M. horni ( Fig. 2 ), which Obenberger described from a female measured as 9 mm long by 3.5 mm wide, labeled as follows: “Buffalo. N.Y. [h] // TYPUS [p, red framed] // Melanophila horni m. Type [h] Det. D r. Obenberger [p] // Mus. Nat. Pragae inv. 22079 [p, orange, number handwritten] // Melanophila fulvoguttata (Harris) [h] A. Cobos det. 1982 [p]". We agree with Cobos’ determination (although he never published on this species); clearly P. horni ( Obenberger 1944) is conspecific with P. fulvoguttata ( Harris 1829) and is a junior synonym. The only other specimen is the one Obenberger (1944) placed in a key as “Elytris immaculatis”, also in the Prague Museum, labelled: “Buffalo. N.Y. [h] // TYPUS [p, red framed] // M. horni ab. imaculatella m. Type [h], Det. D r. Obenberger [p]", and it represents an unavailable name ( Bellamy 2008b). We based this decision on our interpretation of Articles 72.4 and 73.1.2 of the ICZN (1999).

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FIGURES 1–4. 1–3, dorsal habitus: 1, lectotype Acmaeodera conoidea; 2, holotype Phaenops horni; 3, holotype Phaenops caseyi. 4, aedeagus of the latter.