ZOOTAXA

1993b Kozminykh: 61 (key, descriptions, regional in Russian) >> as syn. of P. plagiatus2002 Nikolajev & Kozminykh: 96 (catalog, distribution, descriptions, keys, figures inRussian (English summary)) >> as syn. of P. plagiatusZOOTAXA65= weberi Bodemeyer, 1916 REVISED SYNONYM of Ptomascopus plagiatus(Ménétriés)Type locality: “Chitaitzki-Sterana [Strana], Ost-Sibirien, rechtes Amur-Ufer” [China,Heilongjian Prov., Kitaiskaya starana - Chinese side of the Amur River; descrip.]Type depository: Hamburg [destroyed?]1916 Bodemeyer: 112 (descriptions in German) >> Orig. comb.:Ptomascopus Weberi[!M, S]1923 Portevin: 71 (key, descriptions in French) >> as valid species1925 Winkler: 265 (catalog) >> as valid species1926a Portevin: 185 (revision: key, descriptions & catalog in French) >> as valid species1927b Hatch: 364 (revision: key, descriptions & catalog) >> as valid species; specimensnot seen by Hatch1928 Hatch: 154 (catalog) >> as valid species1933 Semenov-Tian-Shanskij: 154 (catalog in Russian & Latin) >> as valid species1933a Shchegoleva-Barovskaya: 171 (revision: key, descriptions & catalog in Russian)>> as valid species1942 Hlisnikovsky: 578 (nomenclature in German) >> as syn. of P. plagiatus1986 Nishikawa: 99 (catalog in Japanese (English summary)) >> as syn. of P. plagiatus1993b Kozminykh: 61 (key, descriptions, regional in Russian) >> as syn. of P. morio2002 Nikolajev & Kozminykh: 96 (catalog, distribution, descriptions, keys, figures inRussian (English summary)) >> as syn. of P. morioComments: Bodemeyer (1916) described Ptomascopus Weberi as "like the Japanese [Ptomascopus]morio"; which is an all-black species, but noted among other differences thathis new species had red markings. Ptomascopus plagiatus occurs in the type locality ofBodemeyer's species and is primarily differentiated from P. morio by the presence of redmaculae on the elytra. Hlisnikovsky (1942) first synonymyzed Bodemeyer's name underP. plagiatus, but Kozminykh (1993) considered P. morio to be the senior synonym.Although P. morio also occurs in the type locality of Bodemeyer's P. weberi, based on theoriginal description we agree with Hlisnikovsky (1942) and return P. weberi to synonymyunder P. plagiatus.The only specimen of P. plagiatus collected from Japan is the type of Ptomascopusplagiatipennis Lewis (1879), which DSS has studied and confirmed is conspecific with P.plagiatus. Nagano & Hoshina (2001) pointed out, however, that no corroboration of a Japanesepopulation of this species has been demonstrated and therefore suggests that the typelocality data might be erroneous for Lewis’ name. This notion is supported by the fact thatalthough the holotype of P. plagiatipennis bears a single locality label from Japan, Lewisincluded in the original description an additional locality of Pekin, China, where P. plagiatusoccurs.CATALOG OF NICROPHORINAE© 2002 Magnolia Press 227