Scirtes rutai, Watts & Cooper & Saint, 2017

Watts, Chris H. S., Cooper, Steven J. B. & Saint, Kathleen M., 2017, Review of Australian Scirtes Illiger, Ora Clark and Exochomoscirtes Pic (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) including descriptions of new species, new groups and a multi-gene molecular phylogeny of Australian and non-Australian species, Zootaxa 4347 (3), pp. 511-532 : 527

Scirtes rutai nom. nov.

= Scirtes beccus Ruta, Kiałka & Yoshitomi, 2014

Notes. Scirtes beccus Ruta, Kiałka & Yoshitomi, 2014 from Kinabalu Park, Ranu, Sabah is preoccupied by Scirtes beccus Watts, 2004 . We propose the replacement name, Scirtes rutai , after Rafał Ruta of Wroclaw in recognition of his extensive and important work on the Scirtes of Southeast Asia.