Blastarnodes carpi Koch, 1958

Kamiński, Marcin Jan, Lumen, Ryan, Müller, Ruth, Kanda, Kojun, Robiche, Gérard & Smith, Aaron Dennis, 2021, Illustrated Catalog of the Subtribe Helopinina Lacordaire (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Blaptinae: Pedinini), The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (3), pp. 537-578 : 551

1. Blastarnodes carpi Koch, 1958 ( Fig. 7B ) Blastarnodes carpi Koch 1958: 202 .

Type Data. Syntypes, nine specimens (Ditsong Museum): “Kaokoveld: Kaoko Otavi, VII.1951, B. Carp Exped ” .

Distribution. NAMIBIA: Kaoko Otavi, Oropembe ( Koch 1958).

Note. Although the studied type specimen is labeled as a lectotype ( Fig. 7B ), this designation was never formalized in publication. Therefore, the specimen presented on Fig. 7B should still be considered a syntype.

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Fig. 7. Type specimens of species representing the genus Blastarnodes. A) B. herero, B) B. carpi, C) B. gebieni borgesi, D) B. gebieni gebieni, E) B. zoutpansbergianus.