Species Chalcopteroides cyanopterus (Hope, 1831)

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• Amarygmus cyanopterus Hope, F.W. 1831. Synopsis of the new species of Nepal Insects in the collection of Major-General Hardwicke. pp. 21-32 in Gray, J.E. (ed.). The Zoological Miscellany. London : Treuttel, Würtz & Co. Vol. 1. [32].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, Nepal [erroneous].
• Cnodulon cyanipenne Hope, F.W. 1843. Continuation of a memoir containing descriptions of new species of Coleoptera from Port Essington, in New Holland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12: 357-361 [this work is often cited as appearing in 1842 in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London, pages 76-80, but these Proceedings, which reprinted the above paper, were actually not published until 1845 (I. Lansbury, pers. comm. 1987)] [360].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM, Pt Essington, NT or Adelaide, SA.
• Chalcopterus laevicollis Blessig, C. 1861. Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Heteromeren von Australia Felix. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 1: 87-115 [110].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (not located), Melbourne, Vic.
• Amarygmus coelestis Pascoe, F.P. 1869. Descriptions of new genera and species of Tenebrionidae from Australia and Tasmania. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4 3: 29-45, 132-153, 277-296, 344-351 [345].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (not located), Brisbane, Qld.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Blackburn, T. 1893 [1892]. Revision of the Australian Amarygmides. Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2 7: 411-470 [416] (C. laevicollis Blessig, A. coelestis Pascoe)
• Carter, H.C. 1914. Notes on Tenebrionidae in the South Australian Museum, collected by Mr. A. M. Lea, 1911-1912, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 38: 219-238 [236] (C. cyanipenne Hope)

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