Amblycerus mutatus Pic 1927

Amblycerus mutatus Pic, 1927. New combination. Spermophagus testaceus Pic, 1922: p. 16 (not Pic (1917)), p. 302: name pre-occupied (Pic, 1927b). From labels: “Caparo, Trinidad / A. Heyne, Berlin-Wilm.” [Trinidad and Tobago]. Female syntype deposited in the MNHN. There is a “ Holotype ” label affixed to this specimen by J.M. Kingsolver. However, the original publication does not designate a holotype, nor does it indicate the number of specimens examined. Because no lectotype has been published, this must therefore be considered a syntype. Amblycerus testaceus (sensu Pic, 1922): Blackwelder (1946), p. 763 (catalog, comb. nov.); Pfaffenberger (1985), p. 2 (checklist). Spermophagus mutatus Pic, 1927b: p. 14. New name for Spermophagus testaceus Pic, 1922. Pic (1927b) incorrectly cited the name for this species in a lapsus as S. testaceus Pic (1912) instead of Pic (1922). This created confusion about which species he was providing a replacement name for. Spermophagus mutatus: Udayagiri & Wadhi (1989), p. 16 (catalog, incorrectly stated as an unnecessary replacement name for S. testaceus Pic, 1917). Spermophagus testaceicolor Pic, 1938a: p. 20. New name for Spermophagus testaceus Pic, 1922. Pic (1938a) seems to have misinterpreted his own new name from Pic (1927b), as he provided this unnecessary replacement name for this species, which in itself was a junior homonym as he had already applied the name to a species from Japan (Pic, 1917b). Amblycerus testaceicolor: Udayagiri & Wadhi (1989), p. 16 (catalog, comb. nov.).