Diaphanes rugicollis ( Fairmaire, 1887 )

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 : 3

Diaphanes rugicollis ( Fairmaire, 1887)

Lampyris rugicollis Fairmaire 1887: 155

Diaphanes volkensi ( Kolbe, 1897) [syn.]

Lampyris volkensi Kolbe 1897: 218

Diaphanes volkensi (Kolbe, 1898 [sic]): McDermott 1966: 13

Note. McDermott had two notecards. One contained the correct date ( Fig. 1c ), and the second the incorrect date ( Fig. 2a )

Figures

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.

Figure 2. McDermott’s original handwritten literature notecards. a) Notecard showing the incorrect citation for Diaphanes volkensi. b) Notecard showing the incorrect citation for Diaphanes signaticollis. c) Notecard showing the incorrect citation for Pyrocoelia iwasakii.