Brachypterus solaris Gistel, 1857

Jelínek, Josef & Audisio, Paolo, 2009, The Kateretidae, Nitidulidae and Monotomidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) described by Gistel (1856, 1857): new synonymies and type designations, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 49 (1), pp. 225-238 : 230-231

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5404440
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scientific name	Brachypterus solaris Gistel, 1857
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Brachypterus solaris Gistel, 1857: 577 [65].

Type material. NEOTYPE: J, ‘ Styria / Hochschwab / F. Smolik // Neotypus / Brachypterus / solaris Gistel 1857 / des. Jelínek & Audisio / 2007 // Brachypterus / urticae (F.) / det. J. Jelínek 2007’.

The combination of characters such as: chestnut-brown colour with red legs and antennae, deep punctation, and rounded posterior angles of pronotum, along with the occurrence in the Alps indicate a (perhaps teneral) specimen of Brachypterus urticae (Fabricius, 1792) .

Brachypterus solaris Gistel, 1857 is thus proposed as a junior synonym of Brachypterus urticae (Fabricius, 1792) .