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LECTOTYPE (present designation). Brazit: g, Jatahy, Prov. Goyas, Brasil. 
Sept. a Nov. 97; Adelocera picta Fleut., type [Fleut.]; Bull. Soc. ent. Fr. 1902 
p. 112 [Fleut.] (MNHN, Paris). Length: 13 mm. 
Paralectotypes. 2 g, same locality as lectototype. Length: 13-6 mm and 
12mm. 19,1, Jatahy, Goyas, Brasil (MNHN, Paris). Length: 3, 9:5 mm, 2 
16-8 mm. 
Fleutiaux (1907a : 162) synonymizes Anacantha bicostata Schwarz (1902) (July) : 
196) with this species. The synonymy has not been confirmed. Schwarz’s descrip- 
tion is based on an unrecorded number of specimens from Brazil, Prov. Goyas, 
Jatahy. Syntypes: ? DEI, Eberswalde. 
Lacon pollinaria (Candéze) 
Adelocera pollinaria Candéze, 1857 : 68; pl. I, fig. 14. 
Adelocera adspersa Candéze, 1874 : 30. [Synonymized by Champion, 1894 : 260.] 
Lacon (Aulacon) pellinaria (Candéze); Golbach, 19696 : 157. [Unjustified emendation.] 
Adelocera pollinaria Candéze. LECTOTYPE (present designation). BRaziL: 
2, Dej. Brasilia; Janson coll. 1903 : 130; Adelocera pollinaria (Dej.) Cdze, Cand., 
type (Janson); Agrypnus pollinarius Dej.Cat. (e coll. Dejean) [ Janson] (BMNH). 
Adelocera adspersa Candéze. Holotype. GUATEMALA: 4g, Guatemala, Salle 
coll.; Isabal; Adelocera adspersa Cand. Salle coll. 1414; A. aspersa [sic] Cdz, type 
[Cand]; pollinaria Cand. [Champ.]; sp. figured; B.C.A. Col. III (1) Adelocera pollinaria 
Cand. [Champ.] (BMNH). 
Lacon punctatus (Herbst) 
Elater punctatus Herbst, 1779 : 316; pl. 7, fig. 1. [Synonymized with atomarius Fabricius by 
Panzer, 1801 : I.] 
Elater carbonarius Schrank, 1781 : 184. [Synonymized with punctatus Herbst by Herbst, 
1784 : I10.] 
Elater pulverulentus Panzer, 1795 : 235. [Synonymized with atomarius Fabricius by Panzer, 
1801 : I.] 
Elater atomarius Fabricius, 1798 : 139. 
Adelocera punctatus (Herbst) Seidlitz, 1888 : 168. 
Lacon punctatus (Herbst) Fleutiaux, 1926 : 94. 
Elater punctatus Herbst. Herbst appears to have based his description on material 
in his own collection (1779 : 315) which is now preserved in the MNHN, Berlin (not 
examined). Herbst does not record a locality but comments that punctatus is the 
largest of the ‘einheimischen’ [native, presumably German] Elaterids. 
The figure clearly depicts the distinctive species standing as punctatus Herbst in 
all the collections known to me. 
Elater carbonarius Schrank. The description is based on an unrecorded number of 
specimens from Vienna. The location of the Schrank collection or of the specimens 
on which he based his description is unknown. The description is sufficiently good 
to allow Herbst’s synonymy to be accepted without reservation. 

