Tetralobus flabellicornis flabellicornis ( Linnaeus, 1767 )

Kundrata, Robin, 2017, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle subfamily Tetralobinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae), Zootaxa 4323 (2), pp. 151-184 : 165-166

Tetralobus flabellicornis flabellicornis ( Linnaeus, 1767)

Elater flabellicornis Linnaeus, 1767: 651 .

Hemirhipus flabellicornis ( Linnaeus, 1767) : Latreille (1829): 454.

Tetralobus flabellicornis ( Linnaeus, 1767) : Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville (1828): 594. Tetralobus flabellieornis: Jiang & Wang (1999a) : 56 [unavailable name, incorrect subsequent spelling ( ICZN 1999, Art. 33.3)]. Tetralobus albicans Candèze, 1857: 370 ; synonymized by Candèze (1891): 47.

Tetralobus flabellicornis var. albicans Gory, 1832 : Laurent (1964b): 364.

Tetralobus cinereus Gory, 1832: 220 ; synonymized by Candèze (1857): 369.

Tetralobus flabellicornis var. cinereus Gory, 1832 : Laurent (1964b): 362.

Tetralobus soricinus Candèze, 1857: 371 ; synonymized by Candèze (1891): 48.

Type depositories. E. flabellicornis : Type, male (LSUK); T. albicans : Syntype, male (RBINS); T. cinereus : Type, male (BMNH); allotype, female (BMNH); T. soricinus : Type, male (RBINS); allotype, female (RBINS).

Type localities. E. flabellicornis : the type specimen without any distributional data; Linnaeus (1767): Indiaprobably an error; T. albicans : South Africa: Natal; T. cinereus : Senegal; T. soricinus : Senegal.

Distribution. Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Literature. Linnaeus (1767): original description; Fabricius (1775): catalogue; Drury (1782): catalogue; Olivier (1790): catalogue; Fabricius (1792): catalogue; Fabricius (1801): catalogue; Herbst (1801): catalogue; Lepeletier & Audinet-Serville (1828): catalogue; Guérin-Menéville (1829): catalogue; Latreille (1829): catalogue; Gory (1832): original description of T. cinereus ; Latreille (1834): remark; Germar (1839): catalogue; Laporte (1840): catalogue; Hope (1842): revision; Guérin-Menéville (1844): catalogue; Guérin-Méneville (1847): remark; Boheman (1851): catalogue; Candèze (1857): catalogue, original description of T. albicans ; Lacordaire (1857): remark; Klug (1862): catalogue; Gemminger & Harold (1869): catalogue; Harold (1879): remark; Candèze (1891): catalogue; Schwarz (1896): remark; Kolbe (1897): catalogue; Schwarz (1906): catalogue; Berensberg (1907): remarks on larva; Heyne & Taschenberg (1908): catalogue; Fleutiaux (1919): catalogue; Hyslop (1921): remark; Schenkling (1925): catalogue; Fleutiaux (1926): catalogue; Carpenter (1929): remark on larva; Fleutiaux (1940): remark; Bodenheimer (1951): remark on larva; Bünzli & Büttiker (1957): remark; Ferreira (1963): catalogue; Laurent (1964a): remark; Laurent (1964b): revision; Laurent (1965a): remark; Laurent (1965b): distributional note; Laurent (1967): revision; Girard (1971): catalogue; Laurent (1974): catalogue; Dolin (1975): classification; Girard (1979): catalogue; Scholtz & Holm (1985): remark; Costa et al. (1992): remarks on larva; Costa et al. (1994): revision; Riese (1994): catalogue; Vats & Kashyap (1995): remark; Jiang & Wang (1999a): remark; Schacht (2000): remark; DeFoliart (2002): remarks on larva; van Huis (2003): remarks on larva; Girard et al. (2007): remark; Costa et al. (2010): handbook of zoology; Douglas (2011): phylogeny.