Drapetes quadripustulatus Bonvouloir

Johnson, Paul J., 2015, A new species of Drapetes Megerle (Coleoptera: Elateridae), with taxonomic summaries and a key to the species of northern North America, Insecta Mundi 2015 (445), pp. 1-13 : 7

Drapetes quadripustulatus Bonvouloir

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Drapetes quadripustulatus Bonvouloir 1859: 74, 1860: 367 (not Dejean 1833, 1836 nomen nudum); LeConte 1863a: 44; Crotch 1873: 66; Schwarz 1878: 452; Dury 1879: 169, 1906: 144; Henshaw 1885: 72; Horn 1885: 207, 1890: 204; Blatchley 1910: 774; Schaeffer 1916: 62; Blanchard 1917: 7; Leng 1920: 177; Leng 1926: 354; Schenkling 1928: 8; Kirk 1969: 52; Downie and Arnett 1996: 823

Lissomus quadripustulatus , of Gerstäcker 1860: 165; Bonvouloir 1860: 367

Distribution. United States: Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Wisconsin, Texas.

Notes. This is the only species in the region with four elytral maculae, two on each elytron.

Figures

Figures 3–8. Drapetes species, dorsal habitus. 3) Drapetes cylindricus, holotype (image courtesy of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, with permission). 4) Drapetes exstriatus. 5) Drapetes niger. 6) Drapetes plagiatus. 7) Drapetes quadripustulatus. 8) Drapetes rubricollis.