Compsolacon niger ( Schwarz, 1905 ), 2025

Kotru, Akash, Chandran, Nithya, Dubey, Anil Kumar & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2025, A catalogue of Indian Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 (Coleoptera: Elateridae), Zootaxa 5614 (1), pp. 1-66 : 28

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5614.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D85C0C1F-6FE9-43B7-853F-DFC019461911

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15217343

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/52238781-AA3B-FFCE-FF0F-FE03FE4859AD

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scientific name

Compsolacon niger ( Schwarz, 1905 )
status

comb. nov.

Compsolacon niger ( Schwarz, 1905) , comb. nov.

Lacon niger Schwarz, 1905: 258 .

Adelocera niger (Schwarz) Fleutiaux, 1926: 96 .

Agrypnus niger (Schwarz) Hayek, 1973: 190 .

Type depository. Lectotype ( SDEI).

Type locality. West Bengal (Darjeeling) .

Distribution. India: West Bengal ( Chakraborty, Chakrabarti, 2000).

Literature. Schwarz (1905: 258): original description; Fleutiaux (1926: 96): combination; Hayek (1973: 190): combination; Chakraborty and Chakrabarti (2000: 78): catalogue; Chakraborty and Chakrabarti (2006: 50): records of the zoological survey of India, occasional paper no. 254.

Remarks: We have examined the lectotype photograph received from SDEI, Museum. On the basis of external morphology and male genitalia, we transfer this species to the genus Compsolacon and propose Compsolacon niger ( Schwarz, 1905) , comb. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Elateridae

Genus

Compsolacon

Loc

Compsolacon niger ( Schwarz, 1905 )

Kotru, Akash, Chandran, Nithya, Dubey, Anil Kumar & Prosvirov, Alexander S. 2025
2025
Loc

Agrypnus niger (Schwarz)

Hayek 1973: 190
1973
Loc

Adelocera niger (Schwarz)

Fleutiaux, E. 1926: 96
1926
Loc

Lacon niger

Schwarz, O. 1905: 258
1905
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