Phyllobaenus furcatus (Gorham, 1886: 342)

Leavengood, John M. & Garner, Beulah H., 2014, Nomenclatural notes on some checkered beetle (Coleoptera: Cleridae) types of the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH), Zootaxa 3760 (3), pp. 301-335 : 308

Phyllobaenus furcatus (Gorham, 1886: 342) [= P. discoideus (LeConte) ]

Original combination. Hydnocera furcata

Types. Gorham refers to “ten or twelve” specimens. Five are deposited in the BMNH and Döbler (1980: 419) indicated that a syntype was deposited in the SDEI, making the whereabouts of at least half of the type series known.

Series/ Type locality. N. Sonora, Mexico.

LECTOTYPE: N. Sonora, Mexico, Morrison, Sp. figured, B. C. A. Col. III (2), Hydnocera furcata Gorham , Hydnocera furcata (BMNH; 1). PARALECTOTYPES: N. Sonora, Mexico, Morrison, B. C. A. Col. III (2), Hydnocera furcata Gorham , H. furcata [male] (BMNH; 1); N. Sonora, Mexico, Morrison, B. C. A. Col. III (2), Hydnocera furcata Gorham (BMNH; 3).