Tetralobus gigas (Fabricius, 1801)

Elater gigas Fabricius, 1801: 221 .

Tetralobus gigas (Fabricius, 1801): Laporte (1840): 231. Phyllophorus gigas (Fabricius, 1801): Hope (1842): 73. Charitophyllus gigas (Fabricius, 1801): Lacordaire (1857): 165.

Type depository. Type, male (ZMUC).

Type locality. Guinea.

Distribution. Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda.

Literature. Fabricius (1801): original description; Latreille (1834): remark; Laporte (1840): catalogue; Hope (1842): revision; Candèze (1857): catalogue; Lacordaire (1857): remark; Gemminger & Harold (1869): catalogue; Quedenfeldt (1886): remark; Candèze (1889): remark; Candèze (1891): catalogue; Candèze (1893): remark; Schwarz (1906): catalogue; Schenkling (1925): catalogue; Fleutiaux (1940): remark; Laurent (1964a): key; Laurent (1965a): revision; Laurent (1967): revision; Girard (1979): remark; Costa et al. (1994): revision; Girard et al. (2007): description of larva; Costa & Vanin (2010): remark; Rosa et al. (2015): remark.