Tetralobus cavifrons Fairmaire, 1887

Kundrata, Robin, 2017, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle subfamily Tetralobinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae), Zootaxa 4323 (2), pp. 151-184 : 163-164

Tetralobus cavifrons Fairmaire, 1887

Tetralobus cavifrons Fairmaire, 1887: 149 .

Tetralobus cavifrons var. minor Laurent, 1964d: 867 [unavailable name ( ICZN 1999, Art. 45.6.3)].

Type depository. Type, female (MNHN).

Type locality. Somalia: Ouebbi.

Distribution. Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mosambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Literature. Fairmaire (1887): original description; Candèze (1891): catalogue; Schwarz (1896): remark; Kolbe (1897): catalogue; Schwarz (1906): catalogue; Fleutiaux (1919): catalogue; Fleutiaux (1921): distributional note; Schenkling (1925): catalogue; Laurent (1964d): revision; Laurent (1965a): remark; Laurent (1967): checklist; Hayek (1974): distributional note; Girard (1979): catalogue; Costa et al. (1992): remarks on larva; Costa et al. (1994): revision; Jamal (1994): remarks on larva; Girard et al. (2007): remark; Costa & Vanin (2010): remark; Holstein (2015): remark; Rosa et al. (2015): remark.

Remark. Tetralobus cavifrons var. minor was originally proposed by Fleutiaux (1919), but without any description or diagnostic remarks. Laurent (1964d) mentioned this fact and described the variety, but similarly to other varieties described by him, this one is unavailable in the sense of the Code ( ICZN 1999).