Phyllobaenus corticinus (Gorham, 1883: 173)

Leavengood, John M. & Garner, Beulah H., 2014, Nomenclatural notes on some checkered beetle (Coleoptera: Cleridae) types of the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH), Zootaxa 3760 (3), pp. 301-335 : 305

Phyllobaenus corticinus (Gorham, 1883: 173)

Original combination. Hydnocera corticina

Types. Gorham stated “seven specimens were collected at Las Mercedes, only one or two in each of the other localities.” Six of the seven syntypes from Las Mercedes have been accounted. From each of the other localities either one or no specimens, but at least one specimen from one of these localities, are in one or more other museums. The lectotype and four paralectotypes were previously designated (Leavengood et al. 2012). Four additional paralectotypes are here recognized.

Series locality. El Tumbador, Las Mercedes, and Cerro Zunil, Guatemala, and Mexico.

Type locality. Mexico.

PARALECTOTYPES: Las Mercedes, 3000 ft., Champion, Hydnocera corticina Gorham , Museum Paris Coll Gorham 1914 [blue label], Museum Paris ex. Coll. R. Oberthur [blue label] ( MNHN; 1); Las Mercedes, 3000 ft., Champion, Museum Paris Coll Gorham 1914 [blue label], Museum Paris ex. Coll. R. Oberthur [blue label] ( MNHN; 3).