Prodoretus dilatatus Benderitter 1928
Creators: name: Limbourg, Pol
name: Dekoninck, Wouter
name: Seidel, Matthias
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Prodoretus
Prodoretus dilatatus

description: Prodoretus dilatatus Benderitter, 1928
Figs 25–26
Prodoretus dilatatus BENDERITTER, 1928: 420–421 (described)
Prodoretus dilatatus GRIDELLI, 1940: 256-257 (listed)
Prodoretus dilatatus MACHATSCHKE, 1965: 115 (catalogued)
Prodoretus dilatatus MACHATSCHKE, 1972a: 344 (catalogued)
Prodoretus dilatatus KRAJCIK, 2007: 114 (catalogued)
Prodoretus snizeki LIMBOURG, 2016: 28–29, Figs 79-80, 83-84 (described, habitus and genitalia figured) syn. nov.
TYPE MATERIAL EXAMINED.
Lectotype ♀ of Prodoretus dilatatus Benderitter, 1928 present des. Pol Limbourg, 2024
AETHIOPIA. [Prodoretus dilatatus Bend. Type ♀ Bend. E. Benderitter, dét.] [Prodoretus dilatatus Benderitter, 1928 Type ♀ Bend., E. Benderitter det.] [SYNTYPUS Prodoretus dilatatus Benderitter, 1928 ♀] [[af. Or. Jvg, Moyale, 1200m, Tonckas, 13.III] [Mus. Civ. Genova] [Prodoretus dilatatus Bend., DET. E. Gridelli 1938 Typus!!!] (MCSN)
Paralectotype ♀ of Prodoretus dilatatus Benderitter, 1928 det. Pol Limbourg, 2024: AETHIOPIA. [Prodoretus dilatatus BEND. Type ♀ Bend. E. Benderitter, dét.] [SYNTYPUS Prodoretus dilatatus Benderitter, 1928 ♀] [Moyale, O N, Gurar, 21.III.20] [Mus. Civ. Genova] [Prodoretus dilatatus Bend., DET. E. Gridelli 1938 Autortyp !! (unreadable)] (MCSN) Paralectotype ♀ of Prodoretus dilatatus Benderitter, 1928 det.Pol Limbourg,2024:AETHIOPIA. [Prodoretus dilatatus Bend. Type ♀ E. Benderitter, dét.] [Holotypus] [Musée du Congo, Afriq. Or. Anglaise, Mogale, Coll. Benderitter] [Af. Or. Angl., Moyale, “Touches?”] [R. Dét. 1853 i] [Prodoretus dilatatus (unicum) Bend./vu par Ohaus] (MRAC)
Holotype ♂ of Prodoretus snizeki Limbourg, 2016
KENYA. [Coll. I.R.Sc. N.B., KENYA S.E., Tana Riv. Prov., 14km N. of Garsen, 09.iv.2004, Lgt. Snížek] (RBINS).
Paratypes ♂ of Prodoretus snizeki Limbourg, 2016
KENYA. Paratypes 11♂♂, 7♀♀: same collection data as for holotype (RBINS); 1♂: [Kenya S.E., Tana Riv. Prov., 14km N. of Garsen, 09.iv.2004, Leg. M. Snížek] (RBINS); 4♀♀: [Coll. I.R.Sc. N.B., KENYA Coast, N.W. of Garsen, 22.iv.2008 /I.G.31.411, Lgt. Snížek] (RBINS); 1♂, 1♀: [Coll. I.R.Sc. N.B., KENYA Coast, N.W. of Garsen, 22.iv.2008, Lgt. Snížek] (RBINS); 2♂♂: [Coll. I.R.Sc. N.B., Kenya S. E., Voi, S. Foot Sagala Mts., 12.xii.2007, Leg. M. Snížek, I.G. 31.411] (RBINS); 6♂♂, 1♀: [Coll. I.R.Sc. N.B., KENYA S.E., S. Foot Sagala, 12.xii.2007, I.G.31.208, Leg. Snížek] (RBINS); 1♂: [Kenya, eastern Mwingi, Ngumi env., 28.xi.1999, Leg. M. Snížek] (RBINS).
REMARKS.
After the examination of the female syntype of Prodoretus dilatatus Benderitter, 1928 it is deemed conspecific with Prodoretus snizeki Limbourg, 2016. Therefore, the latter species becomes a new junior subjective synonym.
description: Published as part of Limbourg, Pol, Dekoninck, Wouter & Seidel, Matthias, 2024, Contribution to the knowledge of Afrotropical Rutelinae VII (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae), pp. 1-48 in Belgian Journal of Entomology 145 on pages 43-46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10982041