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ANTHOBIUM Leach— Continued 



Discussion : It is impossible to tell from Ijeach just which melanocephalus 

 is intended. I can find no previous use of melanocephalus in 

 Omalium, but there is a Staphylinus melanocephalus Fabricius, a Silpha 

 melanocephala Illiger, and a Nitidula melanocephala Sturm, all of which 

 have since been used in Omalium, and all of which could have been intended 

 by Leach. However, only one of these species was known to occur in 

 England at that time, and that one (Marsham's reference to Fabricius) is 

 almost certainly the species intended. Marsham credits the species to 

 Paykull, who credits it to Fabricius. 

 Homonyms by mis identification: 



Anthobium of Mannerheim, 1831a = Omalium. 

 ANTHOBIUM of Erichson, 1840 = Eusphalerum. 

 Anthobium of Kraatz, 1858b, part = Abinothiim. 

 ANTHOBIUM of Kraatz, 1858b, part = Onibathum. 

 Anthobium of Thomson, 1859 = Eusphalerum. 

 8ynanymic homonyms : 



Anthobium Curtis, 1829, p. 28. 

 Anthobium Stephens, 1829a, p. 25. 

 Anthobium Stephens, 1829b, p. 295. 

 Anthobium Mannerheim, 1831a, p. 467. 

 Anthobium Dejean, 1833, p. 68. 

 Anthobium Gistel, 1834. p. 9. 

 Anthobium Stephens, 1834, p. 335. 

 Synonyms : 



Lathrimaeum Erichson, 1839a, p. 624. [Subjective-objective.] 

 Pkionothobax Luze, 1905, p. 68. [Subgenus.] 

 Eudei.iphbum Champion, 1920, p. 244. 

 Notes: The present use of this name (following Tottenham, 1939a) is quite 

 different from previously established usage. The genotype of Lathrimaeum 

 is considered to be a synonym of the genotype of Anthobium ; as long ao 

 this synonymy is accepted, the two genera are objective synonyms. The 

 old Anthobium of authors now takes the name Eusphalerum. 

 Variant spellings : 



Authobium Gistel, 1856, p. 220. 

 ANTHOPAGUS [Error for Anthophngus]. 



ANTHOPHAGUS Gravenhorst, 1802. p. 120. [Synonym of Lesteva.] 

 Oenotype: Anthophagus alpinus (Fabricius) (Staphylinus). 

 Fired by : Thomson, 1859. p. 48, by subsequent designation. 

 Later citations: A. caraboides (Paykull), by Crotch, 1870, p. 215. A. abbre- 

 viatus (Fabricius), by Lucas, 1920, p. 104, included only in synonymy. A. 

 alpinus (Paykull), by Tottenham, 1949b, p. 358. 

 Discussion: The Staphylinus alpinus Fabricius has been taken to be the 

 same as S. alpinus Paykull, which is older. The species has generally 

 been credited to Fabricius. If the two are the same, Paykull is the author. 

 Synonyms: (See Lesteva) . 

 Variant spellings : 



Antherophagus Brulh^, 1837, p. 97. 



Anthopagus Westwood, 1827, p. 64. 



Anthophilus Portevin, 1929, p. 436. [Lapsus. Not Dahlbom, 1844.] 



Anthrophagus Gerhardt, 1911, p. 339." 



Antophagus Latreille, 1802, p. 129. 



Authophagus Jacquet, 1888, p. 4."^ 



