Andrewesia apicalis ( Chaudoir, 1872 )

Cheong, Loong Fah, 2025, On nomenclature and taxonomy of some Carabidae and Tenebrionidae from Singapore, with descriptions of new species of the genera Uloma Dejean, 1821 and Promethis Pascoe, 1869, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 73, pp. 233-242 : 234

Andrewesia apicalis ( Chaudoir, 1872)

Odacantha apicalis Chaudoir, 1872: 408 .

Arame obesa Andrewes, 1923: 220 [new synonym].

Remarks. Both Andrewesia apicalis ( Chaudoir, 1872) and Andrewesia obesa ( Andrewes, 1923) were described from Singapore. Andrewes (1923) was seemingly not aware of A. apicalis when he described A. obesa from Singapore. Liebke (1938) felt that only one species might be involved: “I have not seen the type, but from Chaudoir’s very detailed description it appears that it is at least closely related to A. obesa , if not the same species”. I have checked the type of A. apicalis in MNHN, and can confirm that it is the same as the type of A. obesa in NHML (an image of the cotype of the latter is available from the Biodiversity of Singapore archive: https://singapore.biodiversity.online/).