Elathous discalceatus (Say)

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 : 237

Elathous discalceatus (Say)

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Elater discalceatus Say, 1839: 169 .

Athous discalceatus: Melsheimer, 1853: 69 .

Leptoschema discalceatum: Horn, 1885: 51 .

Leptoschema discalceatus: Reitter 1905: 20 .

Elathous discalceatus: Van Dyke, 1932: 360 .

Elathous discalceatum: Thomas, 1941: 242 .

Type depository. Elater discalceatus . Syntype, female ( MCZ?); should be in the collection of Dr. Harris (now in MCZ) ( LeConte 1853: 427), however, no such specimen has been found there (C. Maier, MCZ, personal communication) .

Type locality. Elater discalceatus . USA: New Hampshire .

Distribution. Eastern parts of Canada and USA.

Literature. Say (1839: 169): original description of Elater discalceatu s; LeConte (1853: 427): redescription; Melsheimer (1853: 69): catalogue; Candèze (1860: 421, 455): key, redescription [as Athous ]; LeConte (1867: 48): catalogue [as Athous ]; Gemminger & Harold (1869: 1566): catalogue [as Athous ]; Crotch (1873: 71): catalogue [as Athous discalceatus Lec. (sic!)]; Desbrochers des Loges (1873: 366): comparison with other species [as Athous ]; Perris (1875: 4): comparison with other species [as Athous ]; Henshaw (1885: 70): catalogue; Horn (1885: 51): taxonomic note [as Leptoschema ]; Candèze (1891: 201): catalogue [as Leptoschema ]; Reitter (1905: 20, 24): review, key, remark [as Leptoschema ]; Schwarz (1906: 197): catalogue [as Leptoschema ]; Blatchley (1910: 761): catalogue, review [as Leptoschema ]; Leng (1920: 168): catalogue [as Leptoschema ]; Hatch (1924: 569): distributional note [as Leptoschema ]; Schenkling (1927: 304): catalogue [as Leptoschema ]; Leng (1928: 344): distributional note [as Leptoschema ]; Champlain & Knull (1932: 255): bionomics, distributional note [as Leptoschema ]; Van Dyke (1932: 356, 358, 360): key, [erroneous] synonymization of E. oberndorfferi with E. discalceatus , bibliography; Thomas (1941: 242): distributional note; Dietrich (1945: 16): species key, distributional note, review; Becker, (1961: 161, 168): comparison with other species, taxonomic note; Blackwelder (1974: 27): catalogue; Bousquet (1991: 177): distributional note; Bousquet (1993: 9): bibliography; Thomas (2007: 24, 41, 66, 120, 165, 169): bionomics; Majka & Johnson (2008: 7): distributional note; Majka et al. (2011: 139): distributional note; Webster et al. (2012: 96, 99): distributional note; Bousquet et al. (2013: 183): distributional note; Etzler (2019: 306): checklist.

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FIGURE 2. Nearctic species of genus Elathous. A, E. californicus Van Dyke, 1932, holotype, male; B, E discalceatus (Say, 1839), non-type specimen from Canada, sex unknown; C, E. huguenini (Van Dyke, 1932), holotype, female; D, E. nebulosus (Van Dyke, 1932), holotype, male. Photograph A provided by C. A. Maier (MCZ), B–D provided by R. Diaz-Bastin & C. Grinter (CAS). Scale bars: 2.0 mm. Labels not to scale.