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Issue: Vol. 38 No. 1: In progress
Type: Article
Published: 2024-04-22
DOI: 10.11646/bionomina.38.1.1
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Thorictus cirenaicus John, 1965 and Thorictus cirenaicus A. Fiori, 1914, a peculiar case of concomitant subjective synonymy and primary homonymy (Coleoptera, Dermestidae, Thorictinae)

Honorary Curator for life; Museo Civico di Storia Naturale “Giacomo Doria”; Via Brigata Liguria 9; I- 16121 Genoa; Italy
Coleoptera Dermestidae Thorictus cirenaicus homonymy synonymy

Abstract

The description of Thorictus cirenaicus made by Andrea Fiori in a paper of 1914 escaped all subsequent entomologists who worked on the group, so much so that in 1965 Hans John described Thorictus cirenaicus as a new species from one of the syntypes recorded by Fiori, giving rise to a peculiar case of concomitant synonymy and homonymy.

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