Tectusa killinica, Assing & Vogel, 2019

Assing, Volker & Vogel, Jürgen, 2019, The mother of synonyms: on the Meotica species of the Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae, Oxypodini), Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2), pp. 731-772 : 768

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3738506
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:016AAB3F-8AE2-4759-B95A-DEAA074768CD
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3811239
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CF53878C-FFB0-8F27-2AD3-8544FF3FFAFF
treatment provided by	Valdenar
scientific name	Tectusa killinica
status	nom. nov.

Treatment

Tectusa killinica View in CoL nov.nom.

Leptusa ( Micropisalia) kuehnelti SCHEERPELTZ, 1963: 441 ff.

Meotica kuhnelti [sic] ( SCHEERPELTZ, 1963 View in CoL ): PACE (1980).

Meotica kuehnelti ( SCHEERPELTZ, 1963) : SMETANA (2004b).

Meotica kuehnelti ( SCHEERPELTZ, 1963) : SCHÜLKE & SMETANA (2015).

Type material examined: Holotype ♀: " ♀ / Ziria-Massiv , 2100 m, 21.IV.60, Felsspaltenmulm / Peloponnes, Griechenland, W. Kühnelt / Ziria, 2100 m, 21.IV.60 / ex coll. Scheerpeltz / Typus Leptusa ( Micropisalia) Kühnelti O. Scheerpeltz / Meotica nec Leptusa , det. R. Pace 1979, tarsi 5-5-5 / Tectusa killinica nom. n., det. V. Assing 2017" ( NHMW).

Comment: The original description of Leptusa kuehnelti is based on a unique "♂ (Typus)" collected "in Felsspaltenmulm in 2100 m Höhe am 21.4.1960 " in the Killini range, northeastern Pelopónnisos ( SCHEERPELTZ 1963). PACE (1980) subsequently examined the specimen, noticed it was a female, and transferred the species to the genus Meotica . The present revision of the holotype, however, revealed that the species belongs to Tectusa BERNHAUER, 1899.

Tectusa kuehnelti View in CoL ( SCHEERPELTZ, 1963) is preoccupied by T. kuehnelti View in CoL ( SCHEERPELTZ, 1962), a species described from the same mountain range "in etwa 1600 m Höhe in einem Walde von Abies cephalonica " ( SCHEERPELTZ 1962) and distinguished by completely different coloration alone ( T. kuehnelti View in CoL ( SCHEERPELTZ, 1962): forebody and abdominal apex pale reddish-brown; T. kuehnelti View in CoL ( SCHEERPELTZ, 1963): forebody blackish-brown, abdomen uniformly blackish). Therefore, the junior secondary homonym T. kuehnelti View in CoL ( SCHEERPELTZ, 1963) is replaced with the nomen novum Tectusa killinica View in CoL .