Eulagius acernus Motschulsky, 1845

Biscaccianti, Alessandro B., Esser, Jens, Cuoco, Silvio, Grimaldi, Enrica Giuliano & Audisio, Paolo A., 2022, West Palaearctic taxa formerly connected to the ‘ old’ genus Atritomus Reitter, 1877 (Coleoptera, Mycetophagidae): taxonomy, distribution, and description of a new genus, European Journal of Taxonomy 828, pp. 61-74 : 64

Eulagius acernus Motschulsky, 1845

Eulagius acernus Motschulsky, 1845: 92 .

Tritoma univestris Reitter, 1878: 166 .

Atritomus univestis (Reitter, 1878) – auctorum (incorrect subsequent spelling and then unavailable name).

Remarks

Among the species formerly ascribed to Atritomus Reitter, 1877 , ‘ univestris ’ has been spelled as ‘ univestis ’by several authors (see Jakobson 1915; Hetschko 1930; Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1976). Although the original specific epithet ‘ univestris ’ is incorrect in the Latin language [the linguistically correct term ‘ univestis ’ means ‘uniformly dressed’], it must be preserved unaltered in accordance with Art. 32.3 of the ICZN (1999), as the provisions of Art. 32.5 are not met. Therefore, the name ‘ univestis ’ is to be considered an incorrect subsequent spelling ( ICZN 1999: art. 33.3) and thus unavailable. Tritoma univestris is currently accepted as a synonym of Eulagius acernus ( Iablokoff-Khnzorian 1976; Nikitsky 2008, 2020).

According to Nikitsky (2020), Eulagius acernus is distributed in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and in the southern part of European Russia.