[Taxacom] Help with Hycleus oculatus please

[Francisco Welter-Schultes]

Original description of Meloe oculatus Thunberg, 1791 see here:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45277#page/14/mode/1up

If this helps.
Cheers
Francisco


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Francisco Welter-Schultes

Am 08.10.2017 um 00:27 schrieb Tony Rees:
> RE (1) above: according to Muller, S. and Rookmaaker, L.C: The South
> African Insects Described by Carl Peter Thunberg (1991:
> www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/117/1175858015.pdf) Thunberg's
> Mylabris oculata of 1821 was based on his own Meloe oculatus of 1791. So
> those two taxa would appear to be the same, also as Hycleus oculatus,
> however preferably you should get an expert to confirm this.
> 
> Regards - Tony
> 
> Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
> https://about.me/TonyRees
> 
> On 8 October 2017 at 07:06, Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Mary,
>>
>> First a disclaimer: I am not a beetle specialist, however this is the
>> information I have been able to piece together regarding your query:
>>
>> 1. Hycleus oculatus is cited with the authority (Thunberg, 1791), and
>> appears to be based on the species previously called Mylabris oculata
>> Thunberg, 1791. If you search Google Scholar for the latter name you will
>> find some references. It is also given as the "Cape Mounted Rifles bean
>> beetle" or "CMR beetle". You can also search for Hycleus oculatus in ION
>> which leads to the page http://www.organismnames.
>> com/details.htm?lsid=1481855 from which a search of Zoological Record is
>> available if you have access to that.
>>
>> In Hallan's list there is a species listed as accepted named Mylabris
>> oculata (Thunberg, 1791) which seems to be based on Meloe oculata Thunberg,
>> 1791. At the moment I cannot tell whether or not this is the same as the
>> above taxon.
>>
>> 2. Hycleus ocellata seems to be different, although this name does not
>> appear in either ION or GNI. It appears to be based on the name Cerocoma
>> ocellata Olivier, 1791 (data source is Joel Hallan's Biology Catalog
>> although the relevant page does not seem to be accessible at the moment).
>> C. ocellata was the basis for the genus Dices Dejean, 1821 but that
>> genus  is listed in Fauna Europaea as a synonym of Hycleus.
>>
>> Probably others can comment further,
>>
>> Best regards - Tony
>>
>> Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
>> https://about.me/TonyRees
>>
>> On 8 October 2017 at 01:42, Mary Barkworth <Mary.Barkworth at usu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Inaturalist has it as CMR Bean Beetle (Hycleus oculatus). There is a
>>> record of it from Botswana but I cannot find the author (desirable for
>>> Symbiota). Could someone tell me who it is please - using Zoological
>>> citation style please.  Is it a synonym of Hycleus ocellata (Olivier, 1791)<
>>> https://www.gbif.org/species/6955485>?  Or is that simply a fuzzy match?
>>> CoL does not include the genus even.
>>> Mary
>>>
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