Catopocerus politus Motschulsky 1870
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Catopocerus politus Motschulsky, 1870
Catopocerus politus Motschulsky 1870: 351; Portevin 1922: 2 (synonomy with Catopocerus cryptophagoides Mannerheim, this is an error); Hatch 1928: 72.
Catopocerus ulkei Brown 1933: 215. Holotype in CNCI. Type locality: District of Colombia. Peck 1975: 383. New synonymy.
Pinodytes cryptophagides Mannerheim (in part), Horn 1880: 249; 1892: 46; Hamilton 1894: 16; Blatchley 1910: 277. All misidentifications.
Type material. The type specimen was not found in the Motschulsky collection in the Zoology Museum, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation, by searches by SBP (2003) or by Dr. N. B. Nikitsky of the the Zoology Museum (2003, in litt.). Type locality: "North America". Specific locality and collector not mentioned. Type assumed to have been collected by Motschulsky himself (1870: 351; “Je l’ai découvert dans l’Amerique du Nord.”). He was never in Alaska or California to collect there (contrary to what was assumed in the past), but he was in the eastern United States (from southeastern Pennsylvania and the District of Colombia to Alabama) in 1853-1854 (Motschulsky 1856, Bousquet 1997). Neotype here designated for the purpose of obtaining stability of application of the name, holotype female specimen in CNCI bearing the following labels: Catopocerus ulkei Brown, 1933, no. 3538; and our red neotype label. Type locality: District of Columbia, USA.
Material examined. No new material has become available.
Distribution. United States. District of Columbia, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia; distributed over a maximum airline distance of 650 km.
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- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.3077.1.1 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Leiodidae
- Genus
- Catopocerus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Motschulsky
- Species
- politus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Catopocerus politus Motschulsky, 1870 sec. Peck & Cook, 2011
References
- Motschulsky, V. 1870 (1869). Enumeration des nouvelles especes de Coleopteres rapportes de ses voyages, VIII. Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 42, 348 - 410.
- Portevin, G. 1922. Notes sur les Silphides. Miscellanea Entomologica, 26, 1 - 4.
- Hatch, M. H. 1928. Silphidae II. Pars. 95. In W. Junk and S. Schenkling: Coleopterorum Catalogus. Junk, Berlin, 7, 63 - 244.
- Brown, W. J. 1933. Two undescribed species of the old family Silphidae with notes on some characters that have been used to divide the group. The Canadian Entomologist, 65, 213 - 215.
- Peck, S. B. 1975 (1974). The eyeless Catopocerus beetles (Leiodidae) of eastern North America. Psyche, 81, 377 - 397.
- Horn, G. H. 1880. Synopsis of the Silphidae of the United States with reference to the genera of other countries. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 8, 219 - 322.
- Horn, G. H. 1892. Random studies in North American Coleoptera. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 19, 40 - 48.
- Hamilton, J. 1894. Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Alaska, with their synonomy and distribution. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 21, 1 - 38.
- Blatchley, W. S. 1910. An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the Coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. Nature Publisheing Co., Indianapolis. 1386 pp.
- Motschulsky, V. 1856. Voyages. Lettres de M. de Motschulsky a M. Menetries. Etudes Entomologiques. Imprimerie de la Societe de Literature Finnoise, Helsingfors. pp. 3 - 20.
- Bousquet, Y. 1997. Taxonomic status of some species of Carabidae described by V. I. Motschulsky from North America (Coleoptera). Coleopterists Bulletin, 51, 329 - 342.