Tenebrio impressus Linnaeus

Ferrer, Julio & Holston, Kevin, 2009, Identities of Tenebrio Linnaeus types at Uppsala, and the resulting changes in old darkling beetle names (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), Zootaxa 2308 (1), pp. 29-42 : 38-39

6. Tenebrio impressus Linnaeus , in litteris.

Sex indeterminate, probably female, det. Erodius sp. Linnaeus Coll., UUZM.

Remarks. This name is unpublished, and the specimen does not represent any published Linnean species. The specimen is not mentioned by Thunberg (1804) in the list of insects described by Linnaeus and donated to the Academy of the University of Uppsala, nor is it mentioned in subsequent papers by Thunberg on darkling beetles (1814, 1821, 1827). Tenebrio impressus Fabricius, 1801 , is a species of the genus Promethis Pascoe, 1869 , from the Indo-Malaysian region ( Gebien 1906, Kaszab 1988), verified after examination of the two ZMUC types, whereas the UUZM “ Tenebrio impressus ” is a species of the Mediterranean genus Erodius impossible to identify without further revision of this genus.

FIGURES 11–12. Illustrations from Pallas (1781). Fig. 11. Tenebrio glandiformis Pallas , det. Psammodes gibbus (L.), in lateral (“11.b”) and dorsal (“11.a”) view. Fig. 12. of Tenebrio gibbus Pallas , det. Moluris gibbus (Pallas) , in lateral view.