Tenebrio variolosus 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 : 39

7. Tenebrio variolosus Linnaeus , in litteris.

Female, det. Pimelia fornicata Herbst, 1799 . Linnaeus Coll., UUZM.

Remarks. The specimen is a female of Pimelia fornicata Herbst, 1799 . Based on the distribution of this species ( Löbl & Smetana 2008), the UUMZ specimen may have also been collected in Cádiz with the syntypes of Tenebrio caraboides . Tenebrio variolosus Fabricius, 1801 , is a different Mediterranean species, Centorus elongatus (Herbst 1797) , cited as Calcar “ variabilis” by Gebien (1906) with attribution of the name to Fabricius, 1801. Two new synonyms are recognized, therefore, for Centorus elongatus (Herbst 1797) : Calcar variabilis Gebien, 1906 , syn. nov. (an unavailable subsequent usage of Tenebrio variolosus Fabricius, 1801 ), and Tenebrio variolosus Fabricius, 1801 , syn. nov. (a junior subjective synonym).