Elathous bicolor (LeConte)

Kundrata, Robin, Németh, Tamás, Prosvirov, Alexander S. & Hoffmannova, Johana, 2021, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle genus Elathous Reitter, 1890 (Coleoptera Elateridae: Dendrometrinae), including habitus photographs for all species, Zootaxa 4995 (2), pp. 231-265 : 235

Elathous bicolor (LeConte)

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Athous bicolor LeConte, 1853: 428 .

Leptoschema bicolor: Horn, 1885: 51 .

Elathous oberndorfferi Schwarz, 1903: 207 ; synonymized by Becker (1961: 166). Note that E. oberndorfferi was synonymized with E. discalceatus ( Say, 1839) by Van Dyke (1932). However, Becker (1961) studied the type material and provided strong evidence that the Van Dyke’s synonymization was erroneous and E. oberndorfferi should be a synonym of E. bicolor . Etzler (2019) omitted Becker’s paper in his study and erroneously listed E. oberndorfferi as a synonym of E. discalceatus , following the earlier study by Van Dyke (1932).

Leptoschema oberndorfferi: Reitter, 1905: 22 .

Leptoschema oberndorferi: Schwarz,1906: 197 [unavailable name, incorrect subsequent spelling not in prevailing usage].

Elathous bicolor: Van Dyke, 1932: 358 .

Limonius kondratieffi Al Dhafer, 2009: 299 ; synonymized with Athous bicolor LeConte, 1853 by Etzler (2019: 306).

Type depositories. Athous bicolor . Holotype, female ( MCZ). Elathous oberndorfferi : Lectotype, female ( SDEI). Limonius kondratieffi . Holotype, male ( FSCA?); 1 paratype, male ( FSCA?); should be in FSCA according to the original description, however, no type material of this species has been found there ( Etzler 2019: 307) .

Type localities. Athous bicolor . USA: New York. Elathous oberndorfferi . USA: New York, Buffalo. Limonius kondratieffi . USA: Ohio, Knox Co., Mt. Logan.

Distribution. Eastern parts of Canada and USA.

Literature. LeConte (1853: 428): original description of Athous bicolor ; Candèze (1860: 486): redescription [as Athous ]; LeConte (1867: 48): catalogue [as Athous ]; Gemminger & Harold (1869: 1564): catalogue [as Athous ]; Crotch (1873: 71): catalogue [as Athous ]; Henshaw (1885: 70): catalogue; Horn (1885: 51): taxonomic note [as Leptoschema ]; Candèze (1891: 201): catalogue [as Leptoschema ]; Dury (1902: 143): distributional note [as Leptoschema ]; Schwarz (1903: 207): original description of E. oberndorfferi ; Ulke (1903: 21): distributional note [as Leptoschema ]; Reitter (1905: 20, 22): key, review, remark [as Leptoschema ]; Schwarz (1906: 197): catalogue [as Leptoschema ]; Blatchley (1910: 761): catalogue, review [as Leptoschema ]; Leng (1920: 168): catalogue [as Leptoschema ]; Schenkling (1927: 303): catalogue [as Leptoschema ]; Leng (1928: 344): distributional note [as Leptoschema ]; Van Dyke (1932: 356, 358, 360): key, bibliography; Leng & Mutchler (1933: 84): catalogue; Thomas (1941: 241): distributional note; Dietrich (1945: 16): species key, distributional note, review; Glen (1950: 167, 217, 239): description of larva, figures of larval characters; Becker (1961: 161, 166): review, synonymization of E. oberndorfferi with E. bicolor , comparison with other species, bibliography, figure of bursa copulatrix; Becker (1979: 612): remark; Blackwelder (1974: 27): catalogue; Al Dhafer (2009: 211, 214, 218, 227, 300, 307): original description and figures of Limonius kondratieffi , species key, comparison with other species, remarks; Bousquet et al. (2013: 183): distributional note; Etzler (2019: 306): checklist [ E. oberndorfferi under the synonymy of E. discalceatus , see comment above].

Figures

FIGURE 1. Nearctic species of genus Elathous. A, E. bicolor (LeConte, 1853), holotype, female; B, E. oberndorfferi Schwarz, 1903, lectotype, female; C, E. brevicornis Fall, 1934, holotype, male; D, E. brunnellus Fall, 1934, holotype, male. Photographs A & C provided by C. A. Maier (MCZ). Scale bars: 2.0 mm. Labels not to scale.