Species Pylus okei Elston, 1929

Museums

Regional Maps

• Pylus okei Elston, A.H. 1929. Australian Coleoptera. — Part VI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 53: 347-352 [351].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM K209300 ♂ (xi.1926, as Elston failed to fix a type, Opitz' [2015: 262] reference to this specimen as the holotype is incorrect), Gypsum, VIC [35° 16' 22" S 142° 23' 51" E].

Generic Combinations

• Apopylus okei (Elston, 1929) [transferred to Apopylus from Pseudopylus by Opitz (2015) though without indication that the resulting combination was new].
• Pseudopylus okei (Elston, 1929) [transferred from Pylus to Pseudopylus by Opitz (2012); this combination was a result of a misidentification by Kolibac (2003) and Opitz (2012) (see Bartlett 2013) of specimens later described as Pseudopylus apterus by Opitz (2015)].
• Pylus okei (Elston, 1929).

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Vic: Murray Darling Depression (MDD)

General References

Bartlett, J.S. 2013. A revised taxonomy for Australian Teneropsis Chapin and Cregya LeConte (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Korynetinae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 58: 411-420 [413] (misidentification of Pylus okei Elston by Kolibáč (2003) and Opitz (2012))

Bartlett, J. S. 2024. The ‘Pylus complex’ sensu Opitz revisited (Coleoptera: Cleridae: Korynetinae): non-homogeneity of its genera addressed by alternative species-assignment hypothesis. Zootaxa 5415(1): 193–200 [Date published 20 February 2024] [199]

Kolibáč, J. 2003. A revision of Australian genera of Korynetinae (Coleoptera, Cleridae). Entomologica Basiliensia 25: 41–97

Opitz, W. 2012. Classification, natural history, and evolution of Tarsosteninae (Coleoptera: Cleridae) — Part I: Generic composition of the subfamily and key and phylogeny of genera. Psyche 2012: 1–35

Opitz, W. 2015. Classification, natural history, and evolution of Tarsosteninae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Cleridae) Part II. Taxonomy of the Pylus complex of Australia and Tasmania. Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae biologicae (Brno) 100(2): 251––279

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