Hoplepiscapha laticollis ( Carter, 1908 ) Skelley & Leschen & Liu, 2021

Skelley, Paul E., Leschen, Richard A. B. & Liu, Zhenhua, 2021, Nomenclatural notes for some Australian Erotylinae (Coleoptera: Erotylidae), Zootaxa 4966 (1), pp. 69-76 : 73

Hoplepiscapha laticollis ( Carter, 1908) , new combination

Hymaea laticollis Carter 1908: 410 .

Comments. The genus Hoplepiscapha Lea, 1922 is characterized as a Dacnini genus near Thallis Erichson (1842) with elongate antennomeres. The holotype of Hoplepiscapha longicornis Lea (1922 : fig. 337), and holotype of Hymaea laticollis Carter (1908) ( Figs. 8–10 ; Hoath 2020b) are clearly congeneric. The transfer of H. laticollis into Hoplepiscapha is here validated.

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FIGURES 8–13. Type specimens with labels. 8–10) Hymaea laticollis Carter, 1908, holotype male with curved protibia and toothed profemur (MVMA), courtesy Kristy Hoath (2020b), Museums Victoria; 11–12) Thallis bizonata Macleay 1887, syntypes (ANIC); 13) Thallis bizonata, ventral habitus (ANIC).