Lampyris brutia Costa, 1882

Keller, Oliver & Branham, Marc A., 2018, Miscellaneous notes on the fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) in McDermott’s 1966 catalogue of Lampyridae, Insecta Mundi 656, pp. 1-10 : 2

Lampyris brutia Costa, 1882

Lampyris brutia Costa 1882: 34

Lampyris brutia Costa, 1881 [sic]: McDermott 1966: 3

Note. McDermott’s notecard had the incorrect date associated with this species ( Fig. 1a ). Costa’s manuscript was presented at a meeting on March 14, 1881, but the article was printed in 1882. There is also some confusion about the later reference cited by Geisthardt. Geisthardt (1984) cited Costa, 1881. In 1987, he cited Costa, 1884 on page 99 and Costa, 1882 on page 109 ( Geisthardt 1987). In a short paragraph, Geisthardt (1999) again cited 1884 as the date of publication. Lastly, he used Costa, 1883 in an updated checklist of Italian Lampyris species ( Geisthardt 2007).

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Figure 1. McDermott’s original handwritten literature notecards. a) Notecard showing the incorrect citation for Lampyris brutia. b) Notecard showing the incorrect citation for Diaphanes costulatus (as an example for all Kolbe species in this paper). c) Notecard showing the correct citation for Diaphanes volkensi.