ZOOTAXA

1927b Hatch: 364 (revision: key, descriptions & catalog) >> specimens not seen byHatch1932 Hatch: 391 (nomenclature)1933 Semenov-Tian-Shanskij: 154 (catalog in Russian & Latin)1944 Handschin: 9 (fossils; description, discussion in German)1969 Gersdorf: 303 (fossils, descriptions in German)1993b Kozminykh: 61 (key, descriptions, regional in Russian) >> as valid fossil species1999 Háva et al.: 73 (key, descriptions) >> compared to P. zhangla2001 Nagano & Hoshina: 2 (description of variation in Japanese)ZOOTAXA65Nomina dubiaNicrophorus chryseus Mazokhin-Porshnyakov, 1953Type locality: “Severo-Vostochnij Kitai” [ne China], and “Manchzhuria, Gao-Lintszi”[=Gaoliyingzi 44.46 N, 128.43E, Heilongjiang Prov.; descrip]Type depository: : not Moscow; Gusarov in litt.; lost? holotype female1953 Mazokhin-Porshnyakov: 236 (descriptions, catalog in Russian) >> Orig. comb.:Necrophorus (Necropter) chryseus [!N, S]1986 Nishikawa: 98 (catalog in Japanese (English summary)) >> as valid species2002 Nikolajev & Kozminykh: 126 (catalog, distribution, descriptions, keys, figures inRussian (English summary)) >> as doubtfully valid speciesComments: Inquiries at the St. Petersburg and Moscow collections failed to locate the typespecimen of this name. Since the type of this name has apparently been lost, the validity ofthis name cannot be confirmed. However, the original description states it is a species nearNicrophorus praedator which is herein synonymyzed under N. investigator. Thus, N.chryseus is likely a synonym of the widespread and polymorphic species N. investigator.Nicrophorus funerarius (Weigel, 1806)Type locality: Silesia? [descrip.]Type depository: unknown1806 Weigel (descriptions in German) >> Orig. comb.: Necroborus funerarius1978 Burakowski et al.: 206 (catalog, in Polish) >> as “Species dubia”Lapsus calamiNecrophilus subterraneus (Dahl, 1807: 363) [Agyrtidae]1993 Clavier: 265 (JA: note in French) >> misspelled as Necrophorus subterraneus[Not Silphidae! as Necrophorus subterraneus in Zoological Record Plus(1993-1996) Accession number 13100011732]CATALOG OF NICROPHORINAE© 2002 Magnolia Press 229