title: Nomenclatural notes on some checkered beetle (Coleoptera: Cleridae) types of the Natural History Museum, London (BMNH).
abstract: Lectotypes were designated (and holotypes and paralectotypes recognized) for 44 species of Hydnocerinae, including the type species for Isolemidia, Parmius, Paupris, Allelidea, Blaesiopthalmus and Lemidia, four species of Enoclerus (Clerinae), and 14 species of Cymatodera (Tillinae). Annotations include comments on additional type material, new type locality, previous (type series) locality, and questionable or mysterious types. Phyllobaenus pallipes (Gorham) and P. rufithorax (Gorham) are synonymized with P. flavifemoratus (Gorham), P. chapini (Wolcott) is synonymized under P. lateralis (Gorham), and P. villosus (Schenkling) is synonymized under P. longus (LeConte), new synonymies. Phyllobaenus longus (LeConte) is discovered in New Mexico, new state record.
authors.affiliation: University of Kentucky, Department of Entomology, S-225 Agricultural Science Center Building - North, Lexington, KY 40546-0091.; Email: tokaytokay@uky.edu.
authors.forename: John M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Leavengood
authors.affiliation: Natural History Museum, Department of life Sciences, Terrestrial Invertebrates Division, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD.; Email: b.garner@nhm.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Beulah H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Garner
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001517:Coleoptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D013045:Species Specificity; D009626:Terminology as Topic