ZOOTAXA

1837 Erichson: 224 (species-group catalog in German) >> as syn. of N. vestigator Herschel1839 Stephens: 113 (descriptions) >> attrib. Gyllenhal1841a Heer: 387 (descriptions in German) >> as syn. of N. vestigator1849 Gaubil: 55 (catalog in French) >> as syn. of N. vestigator1862 Thomson: 9 (descriptions) >> as syn. of N. vestigator1874 Seidlitz: 216 (key in German) >> as syn. of N. vestigator1885 Marseul: 169 (catalog in French) >> as syn. of N. vestigator1888 Seidlitz: 312 (key in German) >> as syn. of N. vestigator, misspelled as Necrophagussepultor Gyll.1889 Seidlitz: 329 (key in German) >> as syn. of N. vestigator; misspelled asNecrophagus sepultor Gyll.ZOOTAXA65= viturati Pic, 1917 NEW STATUS as absolute syn. of N. vestigator HerschelType locality: unknownType depository: MNHN: Paris [!] holotype male1917b Pic: 21 (description of variation in French) >> Orig. comb.: Necrophorus vestigatorvar. Viturati1925 Portevin: 168 (description of variation in French) >> as N. vestigator ab. Viturati1926a Portevin: 247 (revision: key, descriptions & catalog in French) >> as N. vestigatorab. Viturati1933a Shchegoleva-Barovskaya: 180 (revision: key, descriptions & catalog in Russian)>> as N. vestigator ab. viturati1965 Báguena: 51 (checklist in Spanish) >> as N. vestigator ab. vituratiComments: The name N. interruptus Brullé (1832) is a junior primary homonym of N.interruptus Stephens (1830). The nomen novum N. brullei Jacobson (1910) was introducedto replace Brullé's homonym. Despite this action, many subsequent authors continuedto use N. interruptus Brullé, based primarily on confusion wrought by Portevin(1926a) and Hatch (1928) over the date of N. interruptus Brullé (see comments under N.interruptus Stephens), so we are herein synonymyzing this name under its replacementname. Both names are synonyms of N. vestigator.See comments for N. germanicus and N. interruptus regarding the names of Gistel.We herein synonymyze N. interruptus Gistel, 1857 and N. olfactor Gistel, 1848 under N.vestigator. Gistel described N. olfactor from Spain as being like “sepultor” and with yellowhairs on the pronotum; the only species matching this description from Spain is N.vestigator (which was misidentified as N. sepultor by Gyllenhal). The name N. interruptiolusStrand was introduced as a nomen novum for Gistel's junior primary homonym, N.interruptus, and thus also is a synonym of N. vestigator.CATALOG OF NICROPHORINAE© 2002 Magnolia Press 221