Pyrophorus mellifluus Costa 1972, sp. n.
Creators: name: Ferreira, Vinicius De Souza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Elateridae
Pyrophorus
Pyrophorus mellifluus

description: Pyrophorus mellifluus Costa, 1972: 211
Paratype: 1 [unknown sex]. Cuba, La Havane; IRSN; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratype: 1 [unknown sex]. Cuba, Cinza dezanata [ilegible]; ♂; L 15 B; IB; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratype: 1 [unknown sex]. Cuba, Halquen; CNHM 1955, Karl Bransik Colln, ex Eduard Knirsch; CNHM; [illegible] Cand., O. Schwarz det. 1901;[on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratype: 1 ♂. Baños de Ciego, Montero, Sarita Clara, Cuba, V/10/10; AMNHN; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition; genitalia glued on transparent card under specimen. Paratype: 1 ♂. Soledad. Cuba, 18.III.1925; ♂; L 14B; IB; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratype: 1 [unknown sex]. Cuba, Guantanamo, Collection Le Moult; Pyrophorus phosphorescens; IRSN; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratype: 1 [unknown sex]. Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines. G. Link, Coll; March 17 1973; CM; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition; genitalia glued on transparent card under specimen. Paratype: 1 [unknown sex]. Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines. G. Link, Coll; March 1913; Carn Mus. Acc. 4865; CM; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratype: 1 [unknown sex]. Hayti, Parish 1899; Sharp Coll., 1905-313; Pyrophorus noctilucus Linn.; BM; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratype: 1 [unknown sex]. Habana, Cuba; MNHNP; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratype: 1 ♀. Haiti; Coll. Kraatz; Dtsch. Ent. Inst. Eberswaide; DEIE; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition; genitalia and abdomen glued on transparent card under specimen. Paratype: 1 ♂. St. Domingo, 1906, C. Rainkiaer; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratype: 1 ♂. Cuba. Ex. Musaeo A. Sallé, 1897; MNHNP; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratype: 1 ♂. Antilles, [illegible]; Fry Coll. 1905–100; BM; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition; abdomen glued on transparent card under specimen. Paratype: 1 [unknown sex]. Haiti, Heyne; Coll. Schwarz; Plagiophthalmus Germ.; Plagiophthalmus Germ.; Dtsch. Ent. Inst. Eberswaide; DEIE; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratype: 1 ♂. Sa. Vicente de Vinales, Cuba [ilegible]; MCZ; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratype: 1 [unknown sex]. Cuba; Ex. Museo A. Sallè, 1897; MNHNP; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratypes: 2 [unknown sex]. Museum Paris, ANTILLES, Sainte Lucie, Bonnecour 1851; MNHNP; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratype: 1 ♂. Puerta Plata, R. Dom. V.20 to VII.5.15; MNHNP; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition; genitalia glued on transparent card under specimen. Paratype: 1 [unknown sex]. Habana, Cuba; MNHNP; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratype: 1 [unknown sex]. Cuba, Guantanamo, Roll, Berlin, SW11; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratype: 1 [unknown sex]. Cuba; Guantanamo, O Toherin; Riksmuseum Stockolm; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratype: 1 [unknown sex]. Soledad Sta Clara, Cuba 1932; MCZ; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratype: 1 ♂. Cuba [illegible]; ♂; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition; genitalia glued on transparent card under specimen. Paratype: 1 [unknown sex]. Cuba; Guantanamo; [on red] Paratype; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition.
Paratype: 1 ♂. Martinique; Pyrophorus plagiophtalmus; P. plagiophtalmus Germ., J. Mouchet det.; MNHNP; [on red] Pyrophorus mellifluus sp. n., parátipo, C. Costa det. 1970.
Conservation status: Good condition; genitalia glued on transparent card under specimen.
description: Published as part of Ferreira, Vinicius De Souza, 2015, An annotated catalogue of the type material of Elateroidea Leach, 1815 (Coleoptera) deposited in the Coleoptera collection of the Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 263-310 in Zootaxa 3937 (2) on pages 298-300, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3937.2.3, http://zenodo.org/record/241218