Species Tarsostenus hilaris (Westwood, 1849)

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• Tillus hilaris Westwood, J.O. 1849. Cleridae. pp. in White, A. Nomenclature of coleopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part IV. Cleridae. London : British Museum 68 pp. [48].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH, Van Diemans Land (Tasmania).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Opitz, W. 2016. Classification, natural history, and evolution of Tarsosteninae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Cleridae). Part IV. Taxonomy of the Tarsostenodes complex of Australia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, and Tasmania. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 48(1): 587–636 [Date published 30 Jul. 2016] [615].
• Thanasimorpha hilaris var. ruficollis Pic, M. 1941. Diagnoses de Coléoptères exotiques (Suite). L'Echange, Revue Linnéenne 57(484): 6–8 [6].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown (published as in "Musée Dahlem", though likely to be in MNHP), Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Tarsostenosis hilaris (Westwood, 1849). —
  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 [32]
• Opilus hilaris (Westwood, 1849). —
  Westwood, J.O. 1853. Descriptions of new species of Cleridae, from Asia, Africa and Australia. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 20: 34–55 [14 Nov. 1853] [50]
• Thanasimomorpha hilaris (Westwood, 1849). —
  Blackburn, T. 1900. Further notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part XXVII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 24: 113-169 [Date published Dec. 31, 1900] [118]
• Blackburniella hilaris (Westwood, 1849). —
  Chapin, E.A. 1924. Blackburniella, nov. nom., for Thanasimomorpha, Blackburn (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 48: 65–66 [66]
• Tarsostenus hilaris (Westwood, 1849). —
  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]

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