Pactolinus saginatus ( Lewis, 1899 )

Mazur, Slawomir, 2009, Random studies upon Histerini (Coleoptera: Histeridae), Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 9 (2), pp. 101-109 : 101-102

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Pactolinus saginatus ( Lewis, 1899) View in CoL and its synonymies

Described ( Lewis, 1899: 14) as being similar externally to P. rubusticeps (Marseul, 1886) , differing from it by the prosternal lobe “margined only at the tip” [?]. Bickhardt (1919: 47) suspected it to be identical with P. latipes (Palisot de Beauvois, 1818) . A detailed examination of the type showed, however, that P. saginatus was a distinct species, differing from all the remaining species of the genus by the presence of a brownish pilosity on mesofemur and by the lateral metasternal stria being nearly complete ( Fig. 1). Thérond (1965: 10) describing P. armatus compared it with P. major (Linnaeus, 1767) but it is identical with P. saginatus as resulted by the type examination.

Finally, Y. Gomy compared the paratype (male) of his P. sebastiani with the features of P. armatus finding both these species are identical (Gomy, in litt.).

A list of synonymies of Pactolinus saginatus is, therefore, as follows: Pactolinus saginatus ( Lewis, 1899)

Pactolinus armatus ( Thérond, 1965) – View in CoL syn. nov.

Pactolinus sebastiani Gomy, 2001 – View in CoL syn. nov. (Gomy in litt.)

A shape of the edeagus of P. saginatus View in CoL has been figured by Gomy (2001: 411, f. 4).

Material examined:

Pactolinus saginatus ( Lewis, 1899) View in CoL

Type: a female, [ Mozambique]: Mouth of Zambesi, Tschinde, Fruhstorfer, Hister saginatus

Lewis, Type, G. Lewis Coll. B.M. 1926-369 [ MNHL] .

Pactolinus armatus ( Thérond, 1965) View in CoL

Holotype: a female, [ RSA]: Blouberg , Tvl. 6000- 6714 ft., 10.I.1955, Transv. Mus. Exp., Macrolister armatus n. sp., J. Thérond det. 1962 , Holotype, Macrolister armatus sp. n. J. Thérond [ TMNH] . Paratype: a female, [ RSA]: Blouberg , Tvl. 6000- 6714 ft., 10.I.1955, Transv. Mus. Exp ., Paratypus, Macrolister armatus sp. n. J. Thérond 1965 [ TMNH] .

Other materials: Zimbabwe, Lower Gwelo , XII/ 1981, 1 B&, leg. C. R. Owen ; Solusi, XII/1990, 1male, leg. C. R. Owen; Bubi, Bubi river, 8.12- 9.12.1998, 1 ex., leg. A. Kudrna jr. [ CHSM]. New to Zimbabwe.