Oxytelus hermani, Makranczy, 2012

Makranczy, György, 2012, Nomenclatural changes removing secondary homonymy in the genus Oxytelus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1), pp. 193-205 : 197-198

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5330036
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persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E891F357-E421-4E8B-8C47-C79531C0708F
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treatment provided by	Felipe (2021-08-28 15:42:17, last updated by Plazi 2023-11-05 07:57:28)
scientific name	Oxytelus hermani
status	nom. nov.

Treatment

Oxytelus hermani View in CoL nom. nov.

Anisopsis longicornis Cameron, 1928: 15 . Secondary junior homonym of Oxytelus longicornis Mannerheim, 1830 View in CoL , now a synonym of Oxytelus sculptus Gravenhorst, 1806 View in CoL ).

Paranisopsis longicornis: FAGEL (1960: 48) .

Paroxytelopsis longicornis: HERMAN (1970: 406) .

Illustrations. Head and pronotum: FAGEL (1960: 28, Fig. 36).

New records. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: Oriental [Province],Yangambi [04°45′N 24°25′E], 5.–9.vii.1960, ex: raiding column, nest, leg. D. H. and A. C. Kistner, R. Banfill (78 spec., FMNH). CAMEROON: ‘Kamerun’ [without exact locality], host: Anomma nigricans Sjost. (1 spec., FMNH).

Distribution. Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo ( FAGEL 1960).

Remarks. Oxytelus longicornis ( Cameron, 1928) becomes a junior secondary homonym of Oxytelus longicornis Mannerheim, 1830 and is hereby renamed in honor or Lee H. Herman, who immeasurably advanced our knowledge on the subfamily Oxytelinae and among the first gave preference to the species-group concept in its systematics.

References

CAMERON M. 1928: New species of Staphylinidae from the Belgian Congo. Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 16: 11 - 23.

FAGEL G. 1960: Contribution a la connaissance des Staphylinidae LXVII. Le complexe des Anisopsis. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 36 (41): 1 - 51.

HERMAN L. H. 1970: Phylogeny and reclassification of the genera of the rove-beetle subfamily Oxytelinae of the World (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 142: 343 - 454.