Adelopsis brunnea, Jeannel, 1936: 66

Peck, Stewart B., Gnaspini, Pedro & Newton, Alfred F., 2020, Updated catalog and generic keys of the Leiodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region (“ Latin America ”: Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America), Zootaxa 4741 (1), pp. 1-114 : 43

A. brunnea Jeannel, 1936: 66

(as brunneus ); Szymczakowski, 1975: 15 (as brunneus brunneus ; type seen); Gnaspini, 1996: 539 (as brunnea brunnea ); Gnaspini & Peck, 2001: 429, 430 (assignment to group), 2019: 10, 14 (tentative assignment to subgroup; removal of all subspecies additional to s. str.).

Holotype male [a single specimen in original description, assumed as holotype] in BMNH [not there, according to Gnaspini & Peck, 2019; but confirmed to be there by Maxwell Barclay, 2020, personal comm.].

Type locality: “ Colombia ”.

Distribution: Colombia: known only from “type locality”.

Note 1: Szymczakowski (1975: 14), when discussing identity of A. brunnea Jeannel [1936] and describing and assigning subspecies to that species, commented that it is probable that A. ovalis would also be synonym of A. brunnea ; and he proposed to use the latter as the valid name [but the former has page precedence] if this synonymy is proved right. This has never been used in the literature. Gnaspini & Peck (2019: 14) considered both as valid species, and did not propose a revalidation because they understood that Szymczakowski´s statement is not a valid taxonomic act, a position followed here.

Note 2: Subspecies received specific status after study of types (Gnaspini, 1996: 539; Gnaspini & Peck, 2001: 430, 2019: 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21).