Elathous brucki (Candèze)

Kundrata, Robin, Németh, Tamás, Prosvirov, Alexander S. & Hoffmannova, Johana, 2021, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle genus Elathous Reitter, 1890 (Coleoptera Elateridae: Dendrometrinae), including habitus photographs for all species, Zootaxa 4995 (2), pp. 231-265 : 239

Elathous brucki (Candèze)

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Athous brucki Candèze, 1878 : CLXVIII.

Melanathous sequensi Reitter, 1905: 25 ; synonymized by Platia & Gudenzi (1996: 141).

Malanathous sequensi: Reitter, 1905: 115 [unavailable name, incorrect subsequent spelling not in prevailing usage]. Leptoschema brucki: Reitter, 1906: 399 .

Elathous brucki: Guglielmi & Platia, 1985: 192 .

Type depositories. Athous brucki : Syntype, sex unknown [without abdomen] ( RBINS). Melanathous sequensi : Syntype [designated as the holotype by the former HNHM curator], male ( HNHM) .

Type localities. Athous brucki : Greece: Peloponnese, Mt. Taygetos. Melanathous sequensi : Greece: Peloponnese, Mt. Taygetos.

Distribution. Greece.

Literature. Candèze (1878: CLXVIII): original description [as Athous ]; Oertzen (1886: 248): catalogue [as Athous ]; Marseul (1887: 261): catalogue [as Athous ]; Candèze (1891: 152): catalogue [as Athous ]; Reitter (1891: 207): catalogue [as Athous ]; Reitter (1905: 24): review, key, possible synonymy with E. niger Schwarz, 1897 [as Athous ], original description of Melanathous sequensi ; Reitter (1906: 399): catalogue [as Leptoschema ; E. brucki as a possible synonym of E. niger ; as Melanathous ]; Schwarz (1906: 198): catalogue [as Melanathous ]; Jakobson (1913: 757): catalogue [as Leptoschema [as a possible synonym of L. nig rum], Melanath ous]; Buysson (1914: 87): catalogue [as Melanathous ]; Hyslop (1921: 655): generic names [ Melanathous ]; Buysson (1925: 598): catalogue [as Leptoschema , Melanathous ]; Schenkling (1927: 303): catalogue [as Leptoschema , Melanathous ]; Guglielmi & Platia (1985: 192): distributional note; Platia & Schimmel (1991: 132, 141): comparison with other species, key, figures of imago morphology; Platia & Gudenzi (1996: 140): synonymization of Melanathous sequensi and E. brucki ; Mertlik (2005: 171): comparison with other species; Cate (2007: 164): catalogue; Platia (2008: 144): comparison with other species; Platia & Kakiopoulos (2014: 102): comparison with other species; Etzler (2019: 306): checklist; Németh (2019: 137): comparison with other species.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Palearctic species of genus Elathous. A, E. agilis Németh, 2019, holotype, male; B, E. brucki (Candèze, 1878), syntype, sex unknown; C, E. brunneus (Lewis, 1894), syntype,?female; D, E. buyssoni Reitter, 1890, syntype [erroneously labelled as holotype by the former HNHM curator], male; E, E. candezei Reitter, 1890, syntype [erroneously labelled as holotype by the former HNHM curator], without abdomen; F, E. candezei Reitter, 1890, non-type specimen from Crimea, male; G, E. chiarae Guglielmi & Platia, 1985, paratype, male; H, E. crovatoi Platia & Schimmel, 1993, holotype, male. Photograph C provided by K. Matsumoto (BMNH). Scale bars: 3.0 mm. Labels not to scale.