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PYCNOCRYPTA Casey— ConUnued 



Notes: The present disposition of this name is based on the study by 

 Blackwelder (1939). 

 PYCNODONIA Bernhauer, 1928c, p. 21. [Subgenus of Bolitochara.] 

 Genotiipe: Pycnodonia lioglutoides (Bernhauer) (Zyras). 

 Fixed by : Bernhauer, 1928c, p. 21, by original designation and monotypy. 

 Synonyms: (See Bolitochara). 

 PYCNOGLYPTA Thomson, 1858, p. 38. 



Oenotype : Pycnoglypta lurida (Gyllenhal) (Omalium). 



Fixed by : Thomson, 1858, p. 38, by monotypy. 



Later citations: P. lurida (Gyllenhal), by Thomson, 1859, p. 50; by Lucas, 



1920, p. 560. 

 Synonymic homonyms : 



Pycnoglypta Thomson, 1859, p. 50. 

 Pycnoglypta Thomson, 1861, p. 198. 

 Variant spellings : 



PactogLypta Dury, 1879, p. 165." 

 Pyenoglypta Portevin, 1929, p. 450. 

 PYCNORUS Casey, 1905, p. 194. [Synonym of Orus.^ 



Oenotype: Pycnorus dentiger (LeConte) (Scopaeus). 

 Fixed by : Blackwelder, 1939, p. 121, by subsequent designation. 

 Later citations: P. dentiger (LeConte), by Blackwelder, 1943, p. 277. 

 Synonyms: (See Orus). 



Notes : The present disposition of this name is based on the study by 

 Blackwelder (1939). 

 PYCNOTA Mulsant and Key, 1874d, p. 34 ; 1874e, p. 2. [Lapsus for Dochmonota.] 

 PYCNOTA Mulsant and Key, 1874d, p. 409. 



Oenotype : Pycnota paradoxa (Mulsant and Rey) (Homalota). 

 Fixed by : Mulsant and Rey, 1874d, p. 409, by monotypy. 

 Later citations : P. paradoxa Mulsant and Rey, by Penyes, 1918, p. 25. 

 P. nidorum (Thomson), by Scheerpeltz, 1929b, p. 244, not originally in- 

 cluded. P. paradoxa Mulsant and Rey, by Tottenham, 1949b, p. 395. 

 Discussion: The designation of nidorum can be accepted only through the 



subjective synonymy of nidorum and paradoxa. 

 Synonymic homonyms: 



Pycnota Mulsant and Rey, 1874e, p. 377. 

 Synonyms : 



Poctyna Mulsant and Rey, 1874d, p. 35. [Isogenotypic] 

 Notes: This group has frequently been treated as a subgenus of the old 

 genus Atheta (now Ischnopoda). 

 PYCTOCRAERUS Thomson, 1859, p. 43. [Synonym of Platystethus.] 

 Oenotype: Pyctocraerus morsitans (Paykull) (StaphyUnus). 

 Fixed by: Thomson, 1859, p. 43, by original designation and monotypy. 

 Later citations: P. morsitans (Paj'kull), by Tottenham, 1939a, p. 225; by 

 Blackwelder, 1943, p. 109. P. arenarius (Paykull), hy Tottenham, 1949b, 

 p. 363, not originally included. 

 Synonymic homonyms : 



Pyctocraerus Thomson, 1861, p, 125. 

 Synonyms: (See Platystethus) . 

 Variant spellings : 



Pycnocraerus Gemminger and Harold, 1868, p. 647. 



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