Oxytelus dorylinus ( Cameron, 1933 ), 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 : 195-196

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5397943
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scientific name	Oxytelus dorylinus ( Cameron, 1933 )
status	comb. nov.

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Oxytelus dorylinus ( Cameron, 1933) View in CoL comb. nov.

Paroxytelopsis dorylinus Cameron, 1933: 36 View in CoL . Type species of Paroxytelopsis Cameron, 1933 View in CoL .

Paroxytelopsis dorylinus: HERMAN (1970: 406) View in CoL .

Paroxytelopsis dorylina: HERMAN (2001: 1464) .

Illustrations. Head and pronotum: FAGEL (1960: 39, Fig. 59). Male terminalia: FAGEL (1960: 12, Fig. 13).Apicomedial hook: FAGEL (1960: 18, Fig. 15).

New records. KENYA: Karen , v.1962, ex: debris, nest, leg. D. H., A. C. and A. H. Kistner (213 spec., FMNH) ; Karen , v.1962, ex: raiding column: central, leg. D. H.,A. C. and A. H. Kistner (1 spec., FMNH) ; Karen , 19.v.1962, ex: debris pile, nest, leg. D. H., A. C. and A. H. Kistner (4 spec., FMNH) ; Mt.Kenya, Theiba Forest , 8000 ft, 2.–3.v.1969, ex: debris piles, nest, leg. G. R. Cunningham – Van Someren (6 spec., FMNH) ; Londiani , vii.1944, [ex: Dorylus (Anomma) species], [leg.] S. Patrizi (12 spec., FMNH) ; Nairobi ,xi., xii.1943 and i.,ii., iv.1944, [ex: Dorylus (Anomma) species], [leg.] Meneghetti (27 spec., FMNH) . TANZANIA: Tanga distr., Amani , 27.iv.1966, ex: debris piles, nest, leg. D. H., A. C. and A. H. Kistner (16 spec., FMNH) ; Tanga distr., Amani , 28.iv.1966, ex: raiding column: central, nest, leg. D. H., A. C. and A. H. Kistner (2 spec., FMNH) ; Tanga distr., Amani , 14.v.1970, ex: raiding column: end, nest, leg. J. Clover, D. H., A. C. and A. H. Kistner (1 spec., FMNH) ; Tanga distr., Amani , 13.iv.1970, ex: raiding column: central, leg. J. Clover, D. H., A. C. and A. H. Kistner (1 spec., FMNH) .

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

Remarks. CAMERON (1933) originally described the species as Paraoxytelopsis dorylinus (masculine ending), which is a mistake as the - opsis ending is feminine. The ending was changed to the correct feminine one in the catalogue by HERMAN (2001), but now has to go back to the original masculine.

References

CAMERON M. 1933: New species of Staphylinidae (Col.) from the Belgian Congo. Bulletin et Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 73: 35 - 53.

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.

HERMAN L. H. 2001: Catalog of the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). 1785 to the end of the second Millennium. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 265: 1 - 4218.