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Lectotype designations and nomenclatural changes in Xylographus Mellie (Coleoptera, Ciidae)

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ZOOKEYS
Volume -, Issue 374, Pages 23-43

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PENSOFT PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.374.6553

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Ciid; minute tree-fungus beetle; Orophiini; type material

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  1. Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais [FAPEMIG: Universal APQ-00653-12]
  2. Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq) [562229/2010-8, 479737/2012-6, 302480/2012-9]
  3. Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES)
  4. SISBIOTA (CNPq/FAPEMIG) [5653360/2010-0]
  5. Museum of Comparative Zoology - Harvard University (MCZ)
  6. Graduate Program in Entomology of the Federal University of Vicosa (UFV)

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We designate lectotypes and propose nomenclatural changes in Xylographus Mellie (Coleoptera, Ciidae) based on type specimens deposited in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (USA), Museum fur Naturkunde Berlin (Germany), the Natural History Museum (UK), Museum d'Histoire Naturelle de la Ville de Geneve (Switzerland), Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (France), Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet (Sweden) and Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Austria). We designate lectotypes for the following species: Cis fultoni Broun, 1886, Xylographus anthracinus Mellie 1849, X. bicolor Pic, 1916, X. brasiliensis Pic, 1916, X. ceylonicus Ancey, 1876, X. contractus Mellie 1849, X. corpulentus Mellie 1849, X. dentatus Pic, 1922, X. gibbus Mellie 1849, X. hypocritus Mellie 1849, X. javanus Pic, 1937, X. lemoulti Pic, 1916, X. longicollis Pic, 1922, X. madagascariensis Mellie 1849, X. nitidissimus Pic, 1916, X. perforatus Gerstaecker, 1871, X. porcus Gorham, 1886, X. punctatus Mellie 1849, X. ritsemai Pic, 1921, X. rufescens Pic, 1921, X. rufipennis Pic, 1934, X. rufipes Pic, 1930, X. seychellensis Scott, 1926, X. subopacus Pic, 1929, X. subsinuatus Pic, 1916, X. suillus Gorham, 1886, X. testaceitarsis Pic, 1916 and X. tomicoides Reitter, 1902. We propose the following syn. n. (senior synonym listed first): X. anthracinus = X. testaceitarsis, X. brasiliensis = X. lucasi Lopes-Andrade & Zacaro, X. corpulentus = X. lemoulti and X. richardi Mellie X. madagascariensis = X. eichelbaumi Reitter, X. rufipennis, X. seychellensis Scott and X. tarsalis Fahraeus, X. nitidissimus = X. longicollis, X. subsinuatus = X. rufescens. We exclude three species from Xylographus: Cis renominatus, nom. n. (for X. dentatus Pic, 1922, not C. dentatus Mellie 1849), Paratrichapus fultoni (Broun, 1886), comb. n. and P. javanus (Pic, 1937), comb. n.

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