ZOOTAXA

The name N. algiricus was given by Pasquet to a population of N. interruptus fromNorthern Africa. This population seems to consistently have the pubescence of the seventhabdominal tergum darker and shorter than that normally seen in European N. interruptus.However, N. interruptus is a widespread species and shows variation in the pubescencelength and darkness on the seventh abdominal tergum with some European individualsshowing the same states as seen in the African population. Nevertheless, this allopatricpopulation could represent a distinct species or subspecies, albeit closely related to N.interruptus.Throughout most of the history of the name N. suturalis Motschulsky it has beentreated as a junior synonym of either N. investigator or N. interruptus. We transfer thisname from synonymy under N. investigator to synonymy under N. interruptus.ZOOTAXA65Nicrophorus investigator Zetterstedt, 1824Type locality: unknownType depository: MZLU: LundDistribution: Holarctic: Europe, n India, (Kashmir), northern & western (mountainous)North America, Korea, Japan, Mongolia, China, Russia: Siberia, Sakhalin,Kuriles, Ussuri reg., Turkey, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan,Kyrghyzstan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Transcaucasia1824 Zetterstedt: 151 (descriptions) >> Orig. comb.: Necrophorus investigator [!S]1827 Gyllenhal: 308 (descriptions) >> Misidentification of N. investigator as N. vestigator1829b Stephens: 75 (catalog) >> as valid species1830 Stephens: 118 (biology, descriptions) >> citation of Gyll. 1827 misid1833 Dejean: 117 (catalog in French) >> auth. attrib. MacLeay1838 Zetterstedt: 109 (descriptions)1842 Fischer von Waldheim: 9 (checklist) >> as valid species1849 Gaubil: 55 (catalog in French) >> as syn. of N. ruspator1858 Calwer: 106 (checklist, brief descriptions in German) >> as syn. of N. ruspator1868 Gemminger & Harold: 718 (catalog) >> as valid species1873 Michow: 7 (in German)1877 Stein & Weise: 61 (catalog in Latin) >> as valid species1880 Heyden: 86 (checklist in German) >> as valid species1883 Heyden et al.: 73 (checklist) >> as valid species1884 Marseul: 190 (key, descriptions in French) >> as syn. of N. ruspator var. microcephalus1884 Reitter: 87 (descriptions in German) >> as valid species; as Silpha investigator1885 Marseul: 169 (catalog in French) >> as syn. of N. ruspator var. microcephalus1885 Reitter: 320 (in German)1887 Reitter: 217 (descriptions in German) >> as Silpha investigator; compared to N.praedator1888 Seidlitz: 313 (key in German) >> as N. investigator; misspelled as Necrophagus1889 Sahlberg: 19 (checklist in Swedish) >> as valid species1889 Seidlitz: 329 (key in German) >> misspelled as Necrophagus investigatorCATALOG OF NICROPHORINAE© 2002 Magnolia Press 93