Acanthoscelides vittatus

Acanthoscelides vittatus (Fabricius, 1801). Combination confirmed. Bruchus vittatus Fabricius, 1801: p. 401. From labels: “Essequibo / Smidt” [Guyana]. Syntypes deposited in the ZMUC. This is regularly cited as Bruchus vittatus Fabricius, 1798 or Acanthoscelides vittatus (Fabricius, 1798), including by Fabricius (1801). However, this name does not appear in this publication. The first appearance is in Fabricius (1801). This is what is cited in Fåhraeus (1839, p. 97), which also has an excellent description. Bruchus vittatus: Schoenherr (1833), p. 99 (description); Fåhraeus (1839), p. 97 (description); Gemminger & Harold (1873), p. 3232 (catalog); Pic (1902a), p. 51 (mentioned); Pic (1913), p. 57 (catalog); Zimsen (1964), p. 192 (catalog). Acanthoscelides vittatus: Blackwelder (1946), p. 761 (catalog, comb. nov.); Udayagiri & Wadhi (1989), p. 68 (catalog); Romero-Nápoles et al. (2021), p. 215 (catalog).