ZOOTAXA 120: 1-12 (2002) ISSN 1175-5326 (print edition) www.mapress.com/zootaxa/ ZOOTAXA 120 Copyright © 2002 Magnolia Press ISSN 1175-5334 (online edition) Nomenclatural and taxonomic notes on Agrilus ater (Linné), A. biguttatus (Fabricius) and A. subauratus Gebler (Coleoptera: Buprestidae: Agrilinae) EDUARD JENDEK Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, SK-842 06 Bratislava, Slovakia E-mail:
[email protected] Abstract A nomenclatural analysis of names cited in synonymy of Agrilus ater (Linné, 1767), A. biguttatus (Fabricius, 1777) and A. subauratus Gebler, 1833 is presented. The availability and status of each name is examined, discussed and an updated list of subspecies and synonyms, both available and unavailable, is given. Agrilus ater jureceki Obenberger, 1924 is considered a junior subjective synonym of A. ater. Key words: Taxonomy, nomenclature, synonymy, Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Agrilinae, Agrilus, Pa- laearctic Region Introduction This contribution represents further contributions to the nomenclatural – taxonomic series of papers (Jendek 2002a, 2002b, 2002c, 2000d) on Palaearctic species of the genus Agrilus Curtis, 1825 undertaken with the aim to clean up the synonymy from unavailable names. All names, whether available or unavailable, which have been discovered in the literature are examined herein. Material and methods Abbreviations used: square brackets “[ ]” are used for my remarks and addenda; the back- slash “\” is used to separate data from different labels; [p], preceding data printed; [h], pre- ceding data hand-written. Abbreviations for museums are: HMUG = Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University, Scotland; NMPC = Národní muzeum v Praze, Prague, Czech Repub- Accepted: 2 December 2002; published: 16 December 2002 1 ZOOTAXA lic; and ZMUK = Zoologisches Museum und Museum für Völkerkunde, Christian-Albre- 120 chts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany.