Ptomophagus fisus, Horn, 1885: 137

Peck, Stewart B., Gnaspini, Pedro & Newton, Alfred F., 2020, Updated catalog and generic keys of the Leiodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region (“ Latin America ”: Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America), Zootaxa 4741 (1), pp. 1-114 : 59

P. fisus Horn, 1885: 137 ;

Hatch, 1933: 204; Jeannel, 1933: 251 (assignment to subgenus, as a general statement), 1936: 91, 1949: 97 (assignment to group); Peck, 1973a: 86 ( lectotype designation), 1977: 192 (no new record). No information about types in original description (in Horn collection); Lectotype male (designated in Peck, 1973a) in ANSP (nº 2996) [now in MCZC].

Type locality: “ California ”.

Note: The original description included syntypes from two localities ( Arizona and California).

Distribution: U.S.A.; Mexico ( inermis ). Biology: In mammal nests and burrows.

= P. inermis Jeannel, 1933: 251, 1936: 92 ; Peck, 1973a: 86 syn. ( holotype seen).? Syntypes (several specimens, males and females, in original description); [“Holoype male”, in Peck, 1973a, seen] in BMNH. Type locality: “Iruqui”, Mexico. [Note: This locality does not exist and it is a probable misinterpretation of “Truqui” (the collector Eugenio (Eugen) Truqui, Sardinian consul in Cypress, who died in 1860 in Rio de Janeiro, and co-author with Flaminio Baudi di Selva of “Studi Entomologici (Torino)”, in Papavero, 1973: 343, 350); but no person of this name is listed in Burke & Fryxell (1995) or Selander & Vaurie (1962)].