Phaenops lecontei ( Obenberger, 1928 )

Westcott, Richard L. & Bílý, Svatopluk, 2018, Lectotype designations in Acmaeodera Eschscholtz and Anthaxia Eschscholtz, and new synonymy in Phaenops Dejean and Anthaxia (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), Zootaxa 4471 (3), pp. 590-594 : 592-593

Phaenops lecontei ( Obenberger, 1928)

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Melanophila lecontei Obenberger, 1928: 210 .

Melanophila arcuata Fall, 1932: 83 .

Melanophila caseyi Obenberger, 1944: 321 syn. nov.

The unique male holotype of M. caseyi , 9 mm long by 3.5 mm wide ( Figs. 3, 4 ), is labeled as follows: “California [h] // TYPUS [red, p, framed] // Melanophila caseyi m. Type [h], Det. D r. Obenberger [p] // Mus. Nat. Pragae Inv. 22080 [p, orange, number handwritten] // Phaenops arcuata (Fall) [h], Typus comparandus A. Cobos det. 1984 [p]". Cobos did not publish this. Nelson et al. (1996) synonymized P. arcuata with P. lecontei . Having found no

significant differences between both species we consider P. caseyi ( Obenberger 1944) also to be conspecific with P. lecontei ( Obenberger 1928) and a junior synonym.

Figures

FIGURES 1–4. 1–3, dorsal habitus: 1, lectotype Acmaeodera conoidea; 2, holotype Phaenops horni; 3, holotype Phaenops caseyi. 4, aedeagus of the latter.