Cossyphodes wasmanni Reichensperger 1915
Creators: name: Schawaller, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Tenebrionidae
Cossyphodes
Cossyphodes wasmanni

description: Cossyphodes wasmanni Reichensperger, 1915
(Figs. 12–13)
Cossyphodes wasmanni Brauns in litteris
Cossyphodes brincki Andreae, 1961 syn. n.
Cossyphodes reichenspergeri Andreae, 1961 syn. n.
Examined type material. Zimbabwe (labelled as S Rhodesia), Bulaweyo, 20.VII.1913, leg. G. Arnold, 1 syntype TMSA, labelled as type of wasmanni by Brauns, and labelled probably not by the author also as paratype of reichenspergeri TMSA, designated herewith as lectotype of wasmanni Reichensperger. — Zimbabwe (labelled as S Rhodesia), Bulaweyo, no date, leg. G. Arnold, 2 syntypes ZFMK (coll. Reichensperger).— South Africa, KwaZulu/ Natal, Hluhluwe Game Reserve, 17.IV.1951, leg. B. Brinck & G. Rudebeck, holotype of brincki MZLU.
New material. Zambia (labelled as N Rhodesia, Namwala, III.1913, leg. H. C. Dollman, 4 ex. BMNH (det. Basilewsky).— Zambia (labelled as NW Rhodesia, Chinenga, 25.X.1913, leg. H. C. Dollman, 1 ex. BMNH.— Botswana, Okawango, Maxwee Lagoon, 28.XI.1975, leg. Russell-Smith, 1 ex. TMSA.— Botswana, near Francistown, Selkirk Mine, 21°32'S / 27°77'E, 1.–28.III.2008, leg. D. H. Jacobs, 1 ex. SMNS.— Namibia (labelled as Hereroland), Dai Papel Farm, 20°55'S / 17°39'E, 24.VI.1978, leg. S. Endrödy-Younga, 1 ex. TMSA, 1 ex. SMNS.— South Africa, Northern Cape, Tswalu NR, 27°16'S / 22°23'E, 12.II.2005, leg. R. Müller, 1 ex. TMSA.— South Africa, Limpopo, N Soutpansberg, 22°54'S / 29°41'E, leg. S. Endrödy-Younga, 4 ex. TMSA, 2 ex. SMNS.— South Africa, Gauteng, Cullinan, Windy Brow, 25°41'S / 28°30'E, 8.I.2002, leg TMSA staff, 1 ex. TMSA.— South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal (labelled as Zululand), 1905, leg. Traegårdt, 2 ex. ZFMK.— South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, no further data, leg. Schwarze, 1 ex. NMP.
Synonymy. Reichensperger (1915) described C. wasmanni based on a series of syntypes, which he received from H. Brauns already with the in litteris name C. wasmanni, but did not fix a holotype. Therefore, a lectotype was designated in order to fix a single name-bearing type. Later, Andreae (1961) described C. reichenspergeri on the basis of the same series and separated both in his key by only minute differences of the proportions of head and pronotum. These differences are just infraspecific variations, consequently C. reichenspergeri is considered a junior synonym of C. wasmanni. The holotype of C. brincki shows no differences to the lectotype of C. wasmanni, thus C. brincki is considered as a further synonym. Reichensperger (1915) mentioned C. wasmanni also from Umfolozis (= Hluhluwe), the type locality of C. brincki. These syntopical records are a further argument for synonymy.
Remarks. See under C. vandami.
Type localities. “Bulaweyo” (wasmanni, reichenspergeri), “Hluhluwe Game Reserve” (brincki).
Distribution. Zimbabwe (type locality), South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) (Reichensperger 1915); South Africa (Limpopo, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Gauteng), Zambia, Botswana, Namibia (new records).
description: Published as part of Schawaller, Wolfgang, 2013, Cossyphodini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Pimeliinae) in South Africa, Namibia and adjacent regions: New species and records, key to genera, and Old World species catalogue, pp. 351-364 in Zootaxa 3721 (4) on page 361, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3721.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/247749