ZOOTAXA

ZOOTAXA65139.48°E,]19-24 August 1881 (coll. G. Lewis) / red rectangular label with double blackborder “LECTOTYPE Nicrophorus tenuipes (Lewis 1887) det. Sikes 1997”- male (London[BMNH]); pronotal width: 5.75 mm.Paralectotype data “Necrophorus tenuipes Type (female symbol) Lewis” / "Co-Type" /JAPAN: Chiuzenji, [36.73° ' N, 139.48° ' E,]19-24 August 1881 (coll. G. Lewis) / red rectangularlabel with double black border “PARALECTOTYPE Nicrophorus tenuipes (Lewis1887) det. Sikes 1997”- male (London [BMNH]); Necrophorus tenuipes Type (femalesymbol) Lewis / "Type" on card / JAPAN: Nikko., [36.75° ' N, 139.6° ' E,]10-18 August1881 (coll. G. Lewis) / red rectangular label with double black border “PARALECTO-TYPE Nicrophorus tenuipes (Lewis 1887) det. Sikes 1997”- male (London [BMNH]).Hlisnikovsky (1932) described a new species, N. fasciatus, from Japan. Although thetypes could not be found in the Praha collection, where the rest of Hlisnikovsky's types arestored, the description of this species suggests it is a fasciate example of N. tenuipes whichis only known to have all black elytra.Nicrophorus tomentosus Weber, 1801Type locality: “America” [descrip.]Type depository: ZMUC: Kiel?Distribution: Nearctic: northeastern & northcentral North America1792 Frölich: 126 (descriptions in German) >> description of variation: 1 unavailablename1801 Weber: 47 (descriptions) >> Orig. comb.: Necrophorus tomentosus [!S]1837 Kirby: 96 (descriptions) >> as syn. of N. velutinus1840 Laporte: 2 (descriptions in French) >> as syn. of N. velutinus1853 LeConte: 277 (descriptions) >> as syn. of N. velutinus1853 Melsheimer: 39 (catalog) >> as syn. of N. velutinus1854 Emmons: 57 (descriptions)1859c LeConte: 37 (checklist) >> as syn. of N. velutinus1866 Bracket: 23-24 >> “Biology” - Hatch 19281868 Gemminger & Harold: 719 (catalog) >> as syn. of N. velutinus1873 Crotch: 37 (checklist) >> as Silpha tomentosa1878b Hubbard & Schwarz: 650 (checklist)1880 Horn: 234 (revision: key, descriptions & catalog) >> as valid species1881 Schaupp: 37-38 (morphology, larval stages) >> as valid species (in title) “Larva”- Hatch 19281882 Fletcher: 72 (biology) >> “Biology” - Hatch 19281885 Henshaw: 26 (checklist)1886 Lintner: 118 >> “Biology; (parasite of)”- Hatch 19281895 Clark: 61 (biology, behavior) >> feeding on maggots1895 Hamilton: 324 (checklist)1902 Dury: 12 (checklist)1904 Davis: 18 (checklist) >> as valid species1910 Barkowski: 80 (key, descriptions, regional in German) >> as valid species1910 Blatchley: 275 (key, descriptions, regional) >> as valid species176 © 2002 Magnolia PressSIKES ET AL.