Elathous nebulosus (Van Dyke)

Kundrata, Robin, Németh, Tamás, Prosvirov, Alexander S. & Hoffmannova, Johana, 2021, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle genus Elathous Reitter, 1890 (Coleoptera Elateridae: Dendrometrinae), including habitus photographs for all species, Zootaxa 4995 (2), pp. 231-265 : 238-239

Elathous nebulosus (Van Dyke)

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Limonius nebulosus Van Dyke, 1932: 345 .

Elathous nebulosus: Lane, 1952: 66 .

Type depository. Holotype, male ( CAS); 2 paratypes, sex undetermined ( CAS). Although both paratypes should be deposited in the CAS collection (coll. of E. C. Van Dyke and coll. of R. Hopping; Van Dyke 1932: 345), only one paratype has been located there (C. Grinter, CAS, personal communication).

Type locality. USA: Arizona, El Tovar, Grand Canyon .

Distribution. Western parts of Canada and USA.

Literature. Van Dyke (1932: 345): original description [as Limonius ]; Leng & Mutchler (1933: 83): catalogue [as Limonius ]; Lane (1952: 66): distributional note; Ruette (1970: 49): type depository; Lane & Lanchester (1971: 21): distributional note, review; Blackwelder (1974: 26): catalogue [as Limonius ]; Bousquet (1991: 177): distributional note; Al Dhafer (2009: 211, 214, 219, 229, 297, 300, 306): redescription, species key, comparison with other species, remarks, figure of aedeagus [as Limonius ]; Bousquet et al. (2013: 183): distributional note; Etzler (2019: 306, 308): checklist, figures of imago morphology.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Nearctic species of genus Elathous. A, E. californicus Van Dyke, 1932, holotype, male; B, E discalceatus (Say, 1839), non-type specimen from Canada, sex unknown; C, E. huguenini (Van Dyke, 1932), holotype, female; D, E. nebulosus (Van Dyke, 1932), holotype, male. Photograph A provided by C. A. Maier (MCZ), B–D provided by R. Diaz-Bastin & C. Grinter (CAS). Scale bars: 2.0 mm. Labels not to scale.