New synonyms are proposed for: Pethelispa arizonica Dajoz 1992 = Pycnomerus arizonicus Stephan 1989 NEW SYNONYMY; Microprius cubanus Slipinski 1985 = Eudesmula california Dajoz 1992 = Microprius rufulus (Motschulsky 1863) NEW SYNONYMIES; andAulonium chilense Dajoz 1980=Aulonium parallelopedium (Say 1826) NEW SYNONYMY. Colobicus parilis Pascoe is recorded from Louisiana, a new distributional record for the New World

Ivie, Michael A.

Slipinski, Stanislaw Adam

Wegrzynowicz, Piotr

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Ślipiński, Stanislaw Adam

Węgrzynowicz, Piotr

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INSECTA MUNDI, Vol. 15, No.3, September, 2001 New records and synonyms in the Colydiinae and Pycnomerini (Coleoptera:  Zopheridae) Michael A. I  vie Department of Entomology Montana State University Bozeman, MT 59717, USA mivie@montana.edu Stanislaw Adam Slipinski CSIRO Division of Entomology GPO Box 1700 Canberra  ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA adam.slipinski@ento.csiro.au Piotr Wegrzynowicz Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii, Polska Akademia Nauk ul. Wilcza 64,00-679 Warszawa POLAND piotr@robal.miiz.waw.pl Ahstract. New synonyms are proposed for: Pethelispa arizonica Dajoz 1992 = Pycnomerus arizonicus Stephan 1989 NEW  SYNONYMY; Microprius cubanus Slipinski 1985 =  Eudesmula california Dajoz 1992 =  Microprius rufulus (Motschulsky 1863) NEW  SYNONYMIES; andAulonium chilense Dajoz 1980=Aulonium  parallelopedium (Say 1826) NEW  SYNONYMY. Colobicus parilis Pascoe is recorded  from Louisiana, a new distributional record for the New World. 185 Introduction While preparing the Colydiidae (=Colydiinae of Slipinski and Lawrence 1999) chapter  for Volume II of  American Beetles (Arnett et al. 2002), new North American generic records, synonyms, and various other items of nomenclatorial and distributional house-keeping have been  discovered.  Since  new nomenclatural acts will not appear in that  work, this paper is aimed at making these changes known. A few extralimital actions required for the family will also be addressed here. [NMPC]; Roger Dajoz personal collection, Brunoy [RDPC]; Bohart Museum, University of California, Davis [UCDC]; Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University (ZMUM). Material examined or cited is deposited in the following  collections:  Natural  History Museum, London [BMNH]; Edward G. Riley personal collec-tion, College Station, Texas [EGRC]; Florida State Collection of  Arthropods [FSCA]; Hungarian Natu-ral History Musuem [HNHB]; Louisiana State Uni-versity, Baton Rouge  [LSUC]; Museum National d'Histoire N aturelle, Paris [MNHN]; Montana Ento-mology Collection, Montana State University, Boze-man [MTEC];  Narodni Muzeum v Prahe, Prague Part of this paper reflects new findings, honest mistakes, and the normal problems that surface in the course of ongoing taxonomic work.  However, the other portion  deserves  some comment.  Few insect taxonomists have so abused the world's sys-tematists that they have been called to task in the scientific literature. The comments of Charles W. Leng (1911) and Hans Roeschke (1907) about Tho-mas  Casey's rampant creation of synonyms are examples, as is Carrington's (1874) obituary of Fran-cis Walker that lamented the lateness of his death. In recent decades only Mohammad Abdullah has rivaled the infamous  ecologist/taxonomist Roger Dajoz of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturel-Ie's Laboratoire d'Ecologie, in Brunoy, France, in this regard. Not to be confused with systematists in the taxonomic laboratories of that same museum's Paris facility, Dajoz' many errors and cavalier ap-186  Volume 15, No.3, September, 2001, INSECTA MUNDI proach to such trivial factors as generic or even familial placement, type localities, character  consis-tency, and the  courtesy  oflabeling  of  types have been highlighted in  several papers  over the last 2 decades, including: Iablokoff-Khnzorian (1979), Nikitsky and Belov (1979), and Ivie and Slipinski (1989, 1990). After Slipinski's (1985a) pointed rebuke, one would think he would get the point. However, injust a few years, he continued with a paper on North American colydiids (Dajoz 1992), where he sank to new lows. First, without comment he described a species in a genus that was synony-mized 130 years earlier, a synonymy confirmed and detailed by recent workers (Slipinski 1984, Ivie and Slipinski 1989) and so listed in the latest catalog of the family (Ivie and Slipinski 1990). This species is obviously a conspecific with a species described in a major comprehensive publication covering the en-tire North  American fa una of  this family three years earlier (Stephan 1989), and his name created an obligatory, but secondary homonym in the process, because whenPenthelispa arizonica Dajoz 1992 was placed in the senior generic synonym Pycnomerus, it is identical to P. arizonicus Stephan 1989. Recom-mendation I.5.(a) of the ICZN (1985) in force at the time: "A zoologist should not publish a new species-group name identical with one already in use in a closely related or associated genus-group taxon  .. ," holds no sway over Roger Dajoz! Luckily, the types of these 2 homonyms are conspecific, so the hom-0nym is also a synonym. Next, he renamed Mircroprius rufulus (Mots-chulsky), the most common and widespread species of the genus, and indeed, a species he had already dealt with repeatedly, albeit under different names (Dajoz 1977, 1980, 1992). In spite of the fact that  the type of its multiple African synonyms are in easy access to Dajoz at the Paris Museum, he placed his latest synonym in a totally unrelated genus (Eudes-ma LeConte) that bears no resemblance, let alone relationship, to this species, using a known unjusti-fied replacement name  - Eudesmula Cockerell (see Ivie and Slipinski 1990). To date, he has recognized this common species as 3  different species, in 3 separate genera as Microprius linearis (Wollaston), Bitoma rufa (Reitter),  and Eudesmula california Dajoz (Dajoz 1977, 1980, 1992) without any indica-tion that he knows they are all the same species! Lastly,  he  renamed  Colydium  glabriculum Stephan as Colydium chiracahuae Dajoz, also previ-ously described  by Stephan (1989) in  his review of  the North  American  fauna, but  this time he created  only a simple synonym (Wegrzynowicz 1999). In  addition, he included a  purported key to North American Colydium, but it included only 3 of the 5 described species (one with an incorrect name), and one that does not occur in the region. All ofthis was done without citing a single paper! Could anyone really think that there are 3 North American beetles to be described without a single paper appropriate for citation? Surely the editors and reviewers (if there were any) share some re-sponsibility for allowing such a paper to go to press? It  is hoped that the administrators of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle and/or the editors of the Bulletin Mensuel de  la Societe Linneenne de Lyon will exercise some restraint on his further ability to diminish their reputations with such un-professional drivel. Synonymies Pycnomerus arizonicus Stephan Pycnomerus arizonicus Stephan 1989: 59, Arizona, holotype FSCA. Pethelispa arizonica Dajoz 1992: 60, Arizona, holo-type RDPC. NEW SYNONYMY This synonymy is confirmed by Dajoz's illustra-tions and description, as well as by the type locality and reported biology. Microprius rufulus (Motschulsky) Bitoma rufulus Motschulsky 1863: 502, Sri Lanka, holotype in ZMUM. Microprius rufulus (Motschulsky), Schuh and Mis-fud 2001: 261. Bitoma linearis Wollaston 1867: 64, Sao Tiago Is., Cape Verde Islands,  holotype repository un-known. Microprius linearis, Dajoz 1977: 63. Synchitodes rufa Reitter 1882: 131. Egypt, 4 syn-types in MNHN 2 in HNHB. Synonymized by Schuh and Misfud 2001. Bitoma rufa, Dajoz 1977: 62. Microprius confusus Grouvelle 1892: 296. Tangany-ika Terr.,  MNHN.  Synonymized by  Pope  in Geisthardt 1986: 74. Microprius cubanus Slipinski 1985b: 81. NEWSYN-ONYMY, Cuba, holotype NMPC. Eudesmula california Dajoz 1992: 60 NEWSYNON-YMY, California, holotype RDPC. [see Slipinski 1986 and Schuh and Misfud 2001 for further synonymy] INSECTA MUNDI, Vol. 15, No.3, September, 2001 North  American material  examined: California: Riverside Co.: 6, Cathedral City, various dates June-August 1940, L. W. Issak [MTEC, UCDC]. 1,  Indio Hills, 31 August 1981, R. S. Miller [MTEC]. Several series of this species have been exam-ined from desert areas of southern California, indi-cating this species was introduced and established there for at least 60 years. As currently understood, this species becomes one of the most widely distrib-uted Colydiinae, ranging from India to Syria, Leba-non, Palestine and Egypt across North Africa and south to Madagascar, Natal, and the Transvaal and west to the Cape Verde Islands. In the New World from Cuba, Grand Cayman, and California. It has been intercepted in logs in Germany and Malta, its expected mode of transport to many of its current locales (Schuh and Misfud 2001). Given its proven ability to survive transport, it can be expected to spread more widely. This genus is not included in Stephan's (1989) key to North American genera. Aulonium  parallelopedium (Say) Colydium parallelopedium Say 1826: 263. Aulonium chilense Dajoz 1980: 335, figs. 5A, B, and C.  NEW SYNONYMY,  Chile  (mislabeled or introduced?). Holotype: "ex colI. Reitter, Chili! Museum Paris; 1917; CoIl. Grouvelle" MNHN. Examination ofthe holotype of  A. chilense clear-ly showed it is a synonym of this well-known North American species. In the absence offurther material ofthis species from South  America, the Chile locality should be considered an error in labeling, and Chile dropped from the distribution. New records for North America Colobicusparilis Pascoe Colobicus pari  lis Pascoe 1860: 202, Bat  jan  Is., Indo-nesia. Syntypes BMNH. North American Material Examined: LOUISI-ANA: 1, East Baton Rouge Parish, Baton Rouge, 23 April 1988, E.  G.  Riley, at light [EGRC]. 2, Baton Rouge,  16 March 1976, W.  E.  Blust, from rotten sweet potatoes [LSUC]. This Asian species has reportedly been intro-duced into Hawaii (Hetschko 1930), but has not previously been reported from the New W or  Id main-land. Its a ppearance in  Louisiana is of  some concern, as it has been implicated in the spread of  the fungal 187 disease Diplodia (Coelomycetes) to sweet potatoes, yams, and citrus (Hinton 1945). 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