Tetralobus auricomus Hope, 1842

Tetralobus auricomus Hope, 1842: 75 .

Type depository. Type, male (RBINS).

Type locality. Senegal: Casamance, Sédhiou [" Fort de Sedou "].

Distribution. Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Sierra Leone.

Literature. Hope (1842): original description; Candèze (1857): catalogue; Lacordaire (1857): remark; Gemminger & Harold (1869): catalogue; Candèze (1891): catalogue; Schwarz (1903): remark; Schwarz (1906): catalogue; Schenkling (1925): catalogue; Laurent (1964a): revision; Laurent (1965a): remark; Laurent (1967): checklist; Costa et al. (1994): revision; Riese (1994): catalogue; Girard (2003): distributional note.

Remark. Girard (2003) mentioned the lectotype from Hope coll. (OUMNH) from Gabon. However, T. auricomus was described from "Le fort de Sedou, au bord de la rivière Casamance...", which is in Senegal. No genuine type specimen of this species has been found in OUMNH (A. Spooner, pers. com.).