Colovocera oculata Belon, 1891

Delgado, Juan A. & Palma, Ricardo L., 2023, A revision of the genus Cholovocera Victor, 1838 (Coleoptera: Endomychidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 906, pp. 1-71 : 58

Colovocera oculata Belon, 1891

Belon (1891: 878) described Colovocera oculata from 10 specimens collected in Mandalay ( Myanmar), associated with Paratrechina longicornis . However, Belon (1897: 117) regarded his species as a junior synonym of “ Co.” maderae , a position he maintained in a later paper ( Belon 1900: 140). Considering the type locality and the ant-host association of Co. oculata , we believe that Belon (1897, 1900) was most likely correct in synonymising these two species names.

Regardless of that synonymy, Belon (1891) described Co. oculata as having five or six ocelli in the ocular area, a confirmation that it cannot be included in Cholovocera , as we have defined it.