Synhoria maxillosa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Tenebrionoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Polyphaga Infraordo: Cucujiformia Superfamilia: Tenebrionoidea

Familia: Meloidae
Subfamilia: Nemognathinae
Tribus: Horiini
Genus: Synhoria
Species: Synhoria maxillosa

Name

Synhoria maxillosa (Fabricius, 1801).

Synonymy

Horia maxillosa Fabricius, 1801: 86.
- Type locality: [INDONESIA.] Sumatra.
- Typus: (D. Daldorff)
  - Cissites (Synhoria) maxillosa (Fabricius, 1801); Gahan, 1908: 204.
  - Cissites (Horia) maxillosa (Fabricius, 1801); Cros, 1924: 50, 58, 63.
  - Assites maxillosa (Fabricius, 1801); Yokoyama, 1931: 110, pl. 15.
  - Horia (Synhoria) maxillosa (Fabricius, 1801); Betrem, 1932: 99.
  - Synhoria maxillosa (Fabricius, 1801); Bologna & Laurenzi, 1994: 156.
Horia anguliceps Fairmaire, 1885: cxi. Synonymized with Cissites cephalotes (Olivier, 1795) by Kôno, 1936 and then with S. maxillosa by Bologna, 2008: 404.
- Cissites (Synhoria) anguliceps (Fairmaire, 1885); Gahan, 1908: 204.
- Cissites (Horia) anguliceps (Fairmaire, 1885); Cros, 1924: 50, 58.
- Cissites anguliceps (Fairmaire, 1885); Miwa, 1928: 76.
Horia tosana Kôno, 1936: 96. Synonymized once with Cissites cephalotes by Kurosawa, 1985: 10 and then with S. maxillosa by Bologna & Laurenzi, 1994: 156.
- Type locality: JAPAN. Shikoku, Prov. Tosa [= Kōchi Pref.]: Aki.
- Holotypus: NSMT ex Kôno's Coll. [cf. 885MI0004S] (female ♀, July 1935; M. Abe).
  - Note: type location fide Kurosawa, 1985: 7; '♂' in the original description is erroneous (vide Taketsuka, 1986: 13).
Cissites (Synhoria) sasakii Kôno, 1936: 97. Synonymized with Horia tosana by Okamoto, 1953, once with C. cephalotes by Kurosawa, 1985: 10 and then with S. maxillosa by Bologna & Laurenzi, 1994: 156.
- Type locality: JAPAN. Shikoku, Prov. Tosa [= Kōchi Pref.]: Aki.
- Holotypus: SEHU COLE:0000001095^(GBIF) (male ♂, July 1935; S. Sasaki).
  - Horia (Synhoria) sasakii (Kôno, 1936); Kôno, 1942: 522.

References

Primary references

Fabricius, J.C. 1801. Systema eleutheratorum secundum ordines, genera, species: adiectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomus II. Impensis bibliopoli academici novi, Kiliae, 687 pp. Online. Reference page.
Fairmaire, L. 1885. Malacodermes, Lymexylonide et Hétéromères nouveaux recueillis par M. Deby à Sumatra et à Bornéo. Comptes-Rendus des Séances de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 29(série 3, 64): cv–cxii [105–112]. BHL. Reference page.
Kôno, H. 1936. Neue und wenig bekannte Käfer Japans. I. Insecta Matsumurana 10(3): 87–98. (German) hdl: 2115/9319. Reference page.

Additional references

Betrem, J.G. 1932. Beiträge zur Kenntnis des Tribus der Horiini der Familie der Meloidae (Col.) I. Die Systematik der Horiini. Treubia 14(1): 85–101. (German) Internet Archive. Reference page.
Bologna, M.A. & Laurenzi, M. 1994. Descriptions of the triungulins of Synhoria testacea (Fabricius) and another undetermined African species (Coleoptera: Meloidae), with data on Horiini larvae. African Entomology 2(2): 155–162. hdl: 10520/AJA10213589_424 . Reference page. [see page 156]
Bologna, M.A. 2008. Meloidae, pp. 370–412. In: Löbl, I. & Smetana, A. (eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5. Tenebrionoidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. DOI: 10.1163/9789004260900_011 . Google Books (limited preview available). Reference page. [see page 404]
Cros, A. 1924. Révision des espèces africaines et orientales des genres Horia Fabr. et Cissites Latr., avec description de larves inédites. Bulletin de la Société royale entomologique d'Égypte 8=17: 24–80. (French) BHL. Reference page.
Gahan, C.J. 1908. Notes on the Coleopterous genera Horia Fab., and Cissites, Latr., and a list of the described species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2(8): 199–204. DOI: 10.1080/00222930808692469 ; BHL. Reference page.
Hirai, M. 1954. ササキトビイロゲンセイとトサヒラヅゲンセイは同一種 [= Cissites sasakii and Horia tosana are a conspecific species]. Gensei 3(1–2): 5. (Japanese)
Kôno, H. 1942. 日本産ヒラヅゲンセイ族 Horiini の種類に就て [Über die Horia-Arten von Japan]. The Entomological World 10(102): 521–523. (Japanese) Google Books (only snippets available). Reference page.
Kurosawa, Y. 1963. In: Nakane, T., 原色昆虫大圖鑑 [Iconographia Insectorum Japonicorum Colore Naturali Edita], Vol. II (Coleoptera). Tokyo: Hokuryukan Co., Ltd. (Japanese) Google Books (only snippets available). [see page 262 (as Horia tosana)]
Kurosawa, Y. 1985. ヒラズゲンセイ備忘録 [= Note on Cissites cephalotes (Olivier, 1795)]. Coleopterists' News (67–68): 7–10. (Japanese) PDF [only page 10]. Reference page.
Miwa, Y. 1928. 本邦產地膽科 (MELOIDÆ) の研究 [A study on the species of Meloidæ in the Japanese empire]. Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society 10(1): 63–78. hdl: 2115/63156. Google Books (only snippets available). Google Books (another version). Reference page.
Ohara, K. 2002. 徳島県のヒラズゲンセイ [Notes on Cissites chephalotes (Coleoptera, Meloidae) in Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku. Bulletin of the Tokushima Prefectural Museum (11): 1–13. (Japanese) Online.
Okamoto, H. 1953. 日本産 Horiini に就いて. Gensei 2(1–2): 7–8. (Japanese)
Taketsuka, T. 1986. ヒラズゲンセイ (旧トサヒラズゲンセイ) 成虫の生態について [A review on the observations on imagos of Cissites cephalotes Olivier (Meloid beetle formerly called as Horia tosana)]. Gensei 48: 11–22. (Japanese)
Yokoyama, K. 1931. 続日本の甲蟲 [Zoku Nihon no kōchū = Coleoptera of Japan (Cont.)]. Tokyo: Nishigahara Kankōkai. (Japanese) Reference page.

Links

Synhoria maxillosa – Taxon details on Index to Organism Names (ION). Accessed: 15 February 2025.
Synhoria maxillosa – Taxon details on Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG). Accessed: 15 February 2025.

Vernacular names

日本語: ヒラズゲンセイ