Belonuchus aluticollis ( Bernhauer, 1921 ) Chani-Posse, 2010

Chani-Posse, Mariana, 2010, Revision of the southern South American species of Philonthus Stephens (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) 2595, Zootaxa 2595, pp. 1-70 : 8

Belonuchus aluticollis ( Bernhauer, 1921) , comb. n.

Philonthus aluticollis "Bernhauer in litt."; Bruch, 1915: 444 (catalog). Nomen nudum.

Philonthus aluticollis Bernhauer, 1921: 107 ; Scheerpeltz, 1933: 1332 (catalog); Blackwelder, 1944: 132 (list); Herman, 2001b: 2747 (catalog); Chani-Posse, 2004: 230 (list).

Type material. Lectotype (here designated), ♀, with labels: “Iturbe/ 3700m ”, “ Jujuy /10.XI.919/ Weiser”, “ aluticollis Bernh. / Typus” (yellow label), “Chicago NHMus. /M. Bernhauer Collection” “ Lectotype Philonthus aluticollis Bernhauer, 1921 / Des. Chani-Posse de Maus 2008 ” ( FMNH). Paralectotypes: 1 ♂, 1 ♀, with labels: “ Jujuy /10.XI.919/ Weiser”, “Cueva Iturbe/ 3700m ”,“ Paralectotype Philonthus aluticollis Bernhauer, 1921 / Des. Chani-Posse de Maus 2008 ” ( MACN); the female individual with additional labels: “ Philonthus aluticollis Bernh. ” (in Bernhauer handwriting), “Cotypus” (green label).

Notes. There is no reference about the male or the number of specimens examined in the original description by Bernhauer (1921). All the three specimens here studied agree with the original description. Of them, the female individual from the FMNH is here designated as the lectotype because of its better condition.

Additional material: ARGENTINA: Jujuy: Hornadita, 10.20, Weiser , 3400m, 2 ♂, one with additional pink label "cotypus", Philonthus aluticollis det. Bernh ( NMPC) .