Oxytelus dorylinus ( Cameron, 1933 ) Makranczy, 2012

Makranczy, György, 2012, Nomenclatural changes removing secondary homonymy in the genus Oxytelus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1), pp. 193-205 : 195-196

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5330036
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0D7EEADD-BF35-4DFA-9C44-D57C7FF0CB60
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5397943
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1E0087DB-FFD4-D534-FE95-FB37F4D913BA
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Oxytelus dorylinus ( Cameron, 1933 )
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Oxytelus dorylinus ( Cameron, 1933) View in CoL comb. nov.

Paroxytelopsis dorylinus Cameron, 1933: 36 View in CoL . Type species of Paroxytelopsis Cameron, 1933 View in CoL .

Paroxytelopsis dorylinus: HERMAN (1970: 406) View in CoL .

Paroxytelopsis dorylina: HERMAN (2001: 1464) .

Illustrations. Head and pronotum: FAGEL (1960: 39, Fig. 59). Male terminalia: FAGEL (1960: 12, Fig. 13).Apicomedial hook: FAGEL (1960: 18, Fig. 15).

New records. KENYA: Karen , v.1962, ex: debris, nest, leg. D. H., A. C. and A. H. Kistner (213 spec., FMNH) ; Karen , v.1962, ex: raiding column: central, leg. D. H.,A. C. and A. H. Kistner (1 spec., FMNH) ; Karen , 19.v.1962, ex: debris pile, nest, leg. D. H., A. C. and A. H. Kistner (4 spec., FMNH) ; Mt.Kenya, Theiba Forest , 8000 ft, 2.–3.v.1969, ex: debris piles, nest, leg. G. R. Cunningham – Van Someren (6 spec., FMNH) ; Londiani , vii.1944, [ex: Dorylus (Anomma) species], [leg.] S. Patrizi (12 spec., FMNH) ; Nairobi ,xi., xii.1943 and i.,ii., iv.1944, [ex: Dorylus (Anomma) species], [leg.] Meneghetti (27 spec., FMNH) . TANZANIA: Tanga distr., Amani , 27.iv.1966, ex: debris piles, nest, leg. D. H., A. C. and A. H. Kistner (16 spec., FMNH) ; Tanga distr., Amani , 28.iv.1966, ex: raiding column: central, nest, leg. D. H., A. C. and A. H. Kistner (2 spec., FMNH) ; Tanga distr., Amani , 14.v.1970, ex: raiding column: end, nest, leg. J. Clover, D. H., A. C. and A. H. Kistner (1 spec., FMNH) ; Tanga distr., Amani , 13.iv.1970, ex: raiding column: central, leg. J. Clover, D. H., A. C. and A. H. Kistner (1 spec., FMNH) .

Distribution. Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania ( FAGEL 1960).

Remarks. CAMERON (1933) originally described the species as Paraoxytelopsis dorylinus (masculine ending), which is a mistake as the - opsis ending is feminine. The ending was changed to the correct feminine one in the catalogue by HERMAN (2001), but now has to go back to the original masculine.