Tetralobus rotundifrons Guerin-Meneville 1847
Creators: name: Kundrata, Robin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Tetralobus
Tetralobus rotundifrons

description: Tetralobus rotundifrons Guérin-Méneville, 1847
Tetralobus rotundifrons Guérin-Méneville, 1847: 52.
Tetralobus amakosus Candèze, 1857: 376 [as in litteris name attributed to Dupont, nomen nudum]. Tetralobus glaber Candèze, 1857: 376 [as in litteris name attributed to Buquet, nomen nudum]. Tetralobus heros Boheman, 1851: 377; synonymized by Candèze (1857): 375.
Tetralobus rondanii Bertoloni, 1849: 423 [as rondani, see Remark 2]; synonymized by Laurent (1964d): 862.
Type depositories. T. rotundifrons: Type, female (RBINS); T. heros: Syntype, male (NRMS); number and location of remaining syntypes unknown; T. rondani: Holotype, sex unknown (collection unknown).
Type localities. T. rotundifrons: South Africa: Durban ["Port Natal"; but see the remark]; T. heros: South Africa: Natal ["Caffraria tota"]; T. rondani: Mozambique: Inhambane.
Distribution. Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Literature. Guérin-Méneville (1847): original description of T. rotundifrons; Bertoloni (1849): original description of T. rondani; Guérin-Méneville (1849): redescription; Boheman (1851): original description of T. heros; Candèze (1857): catalogue; Lacordaire (1857): remark; Klug (1862): catalogue; Gemminger & Harold (1869): catalogue; Harold (1879): remark; Quedenfeldt (1886): remark; Fairmaire (1887): remark; Quedenfeldt (1888): remark; Waterhouse (1888): remark; Candèze (1891): catalogue; Candèze (1893): remark; Schwarz (1896): remark; Kolbe (1897): catalogue; Schwarz (1906): catalogue; Heyne & Taschenberg (1908): catalogue; Fleutiaux (1919): catalogue; Schenkling (1925): catalogue; Fleutiaux (1940): remark; Bünzli & Büttiker (1957): remark; Ferreira (1963): catalogue; Laurent (1964d): revision; Laurent (1965a): remark; Laurent (1965b): distributional note; Laurent (1967): checklist; Girard (1979): distributional note; Wang (1987): remark [probably an error]; Costa et al. (1994): revision.
Remark 1. G uérin-Méneville (1847) described T. rotundifrons together with other taxa from Abyssinia (= Ethiopia), but without exact locality data. However, Laurent (1964d) stated that the type specimen of T. rotundifrons comes from Port Natal (Durban) in South Africa. The type specimen deposited at the RBINS bears the label " Abyssinie, Natal" (J. Constant, pers. com.). The specimen labelled by Laurent as " Type glaber " (T. glaber) from Natal is deposited at the BMNH.
Remark 2. Although this species was dedicated to Carlo Róndani, Bertoloni (1849) used the spelling rondani in the original description, followed by Candèze (1857, 1891, 1893) and Lacordaire (1857). Gemminger & Harold (1869) corrected the spelling to rondanii and this spelling was used by Schwarz (1906), Fleutiaux (1919), Schenkling (1925), Ferreira (1963), and Laurent (1964d, 1965a, 1967). We deem this to be the correct original spelling in application of Art. 33.3.1. of the Code (ICZN 1999).
description: Published as part of Kundrata, Robin, 2017, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle subfamily Tetralobinae (Coleoptera: Elateridae), pp. 151-184 in Zootaxa 4323 (2) on pages 172-173, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/898836