Miquasus besucheti (Dolin, 2001) SDI

Parekar, Harshad & Patwardhan, Amol, 2025, Annotated catalogue of the click-beetle subfamilies Hemiopinae, Hypnoidinae, Lissominae, Negastriinae, Tetralobinae, and Thylacosterninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of India, Zootaxa 5679 (2), pp. 151-203 : 180

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5679.2.1
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scientific name	Miquasus besucheti (Dolin, 2001) SDI
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Quasimus (Miquasus) besucheti Dolin, 2001: 137 (original description; published type locality: Tiger Hill, India); Korneev & Cate, 2005: 12 ( type catalogue); Cate, 2007: 190 (catalogue; “SD” as India: Sikkim, Darjeeling District).

Miquasus besucheti (Dolin, 2001) : Schimmel & Tarnawski, 2009: 108 (transferred to Miquasus ; “ India: Darjeeling”); Gupta et al., 2018: 502 (missed enclosing authors in parenthesis; catalogue; “2C” as India: Sikkim, Darjeeling District).

Type Locality. India: Tiger Hill, Darjeeling District , West Bengal .

Type Depository. Holotype, M (??); 17 Paratypes, SU ( SIZK).

Distribution in India. West Bengal (Darjeeling District).

General Distribution. India, Nepal ( Schimmel & Tarnawski 2009).

Remark. Schimmel & Tarnawski (2009: 108) erroneously missed to enclose the species’ author in parentheses and did not explicitly indicate the name as a new combination. Nevertheless, we consider them the proposers of this species transfer. Although Dolin (2001: 137) listed the holotype as deposited in MHNG and paratypes in MHNG and NHMB, the specimens could not be located in these collections (pers. comm. G. Cuccodoro, MHNG; I. Zürcher, NHMB). As the presence of this species in Sikkim requires confirmation, this locality is not included here.