Micropodabrus wittmeri nom. nov.

Rhagonycha coomani Pic, 1935: 12 .

Kandyosilis coomani; Wittmer, 1989: 226.

The specific name M. coomani involves three species. Wittmer (1997) transferred Lycocerus impressicornis Pic (1925) to Micropodabrus, but this became a homonym with M. impressicornis (Pic, 1921) transferred from Fissocanthris, so he renamed the former to M. pici . However, Švihla (2004) pointed out that Wittmer did not take the two synonyms, L. coomani Pic (1926) and L. pallidior Pic (1926), into account so that M. pici Wittmer (1997) became a junior objective synonym of M. coomani (Pic, 1926) .

In our study, we discovered that Kandyosilis coomani (Pic, 1935) transferred from Rhagonycha by Wittmer (1989) and attributed to Micropodabrus by Wittmer (1997), is a secondary homonym of M. coomani (Pic, 1926), thus we rename it M. wittmeri nom. nov., in order to memorialize Dr. W. Wittmer who contributed much to the taxonomy of Cantharidae .