Alphitobius laevigatus (Fabricius, 1781)

Schawaller, Wolfgang & Grimm, Roland, 2014, The genus Alphitobius Stephens (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Alphitobiini) in Africa and adjacent islands, ZooKeys 415, pp. 169-190 : 178

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.415.6676

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:23D45EAE-2FBE-42D2-9BA6-E3775704C29D

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/08EE5E7F-1AFC-F35C-2A51-94A339991E68

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scientific name

Alphitobius laevigatus (Fabricius, 1781)
status

 

Alphitobius laevigatus (Fabricius, 1781) Figs 14, 26

Opatrum laevigatus Fabricius, 1781

Tenebrio mauritanicus Fabricius, 1792, syn.

Helops picipes Panzer, 1794, syn.

Helops piceus Olivier, 1795, syn.

Alphitobius granivorus Mulsant & Godart, 1868, syn.

Cataphronetis striatulus Fairmaire, 1869, syn.

Microphyes rufipes MacLeay, 1873, syn.

Alphitobius ruficolor Pic, 1925, syn.

New material.

Somalia, Eil (Nogal), III./IV.1938, leg. S. Venzo, 1 ex. TMSA. - Niger, Maradi, 5.-7.VIII.1981, leg. R. Grimm, 1 ex. CRG. - Niger, Niamey, 9. -14.VIII.1989, leg. R. Grimm, 2 ex CRG. - Ghana, Ashanti Region, Kumasi, Nhiasu, 16.V.1967, leg. S. Endrödy-Younga, 1 ex. TMSA. - Cameroon, Longji, 1905, leg. H. Paschen, 1 ex. MNB. - Cameroon, Sasse-Buea, IV.-V.1951, collector unknown, 1 ex. CRA. - Congo, Oubangui-Chari, no further data, leg. Škulina, 1 ex. NMP. - Kenya, no further data, leg. Škulina, 1 ex. NMP. - Tanzania, Daressalam, Pangani, about 1930, leg. R. Regner, 6 ex. MNB. - Tanzania, Pangani to Tanga, VI.1891, leg. Conradt, 2 ex. MNB. - Tanzania, Massa to Tanga, 14.VII.-6.VIII.1891, leg. Conradt, 3 ex. MNB. - Madagascar, Fianarantsoa Prov., Ranamafona, 29.XI.-2.XII.1995, leg. I. Jeniš, 1 ex. CRG. - Madagascar, Ambovombe Distr., Faux Camp, I.1956, leg. C. Koch, 2 ex. TMSA. - Namibia, Fish River Canyon, Ai-Ais, 250 m, 19.XI.1993, leg. M. Uhlig, 1 ex. MNB. - South Africa, Limpopo, Krüger NP, Skukuza, 29.I.1994, leg. S. Endrödy-Younga, 1 ex. TMSA. - South Africa, Limpopo, Krüger NP, Skukuza, 8.-22.XII.2009, leg. J. Harrison, 2 ex. TMSA. - South Africa, Limpopo, Krüger NP, Skukuza, VIII.1992, leg. L. Braack, 10 ex. TMSA. - South Africa, Gauteng, Pretoria, 28.XI.1999, leg. B. Dombrowsky, 1 ex. TMSA. - South Africa, Cape Town, 1965, leg. Dickson, 2 ex. TMSA.

Type locality.

"Noua Zelandia".

Distribution.

Cosmopolitan.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Tenebrionidae

Genus

Alphitobius