Eburia Lacordaire 1830

Eburia Lacordaire, 1830 Eburia Lacordaire, 1830: 177. Eburia (Westindiesica) Özdikmen, 2025b: 2905. Syn. nov. Eburia (Martiniqueca) Özdikmen, 2025b: 2903. Syn. nov. Remarks. According to Özdikmen (2025b): “The genus Eburia can be regarded as rather stable.” This statement, without any doubt, reveals how little the author knows about Eburiini and, in this case, Eburia. This genus can be considered one of the least stable within Eburiini, as it includes species with features that are extremely aberrant compared to the type species (see also the comments by Botero & Monné (2018) in the remarks section under Beraba). Still according to Özdikmen (2025b): “In first group [Eburia (Eburia) Lacordaire, 1830: 177], pronotum with two distinct, discrete, medio-laterally, antero-discal tubercles; these tubercles of pronotum black contrasting in color from remainder of pronotum, and so pronotum not uniformly colored;” and “In second group, pronotum with two distinct, discrete, medio-laterally, antero-discal tubercles, then these tubercles of pronotum of same color as ground color of pronotum; or sometimes with only indistinct (weakly), discrete, medio-laterally, antero-discal tubercles, or almost without pronotal tubercles, and so pronotum uniformly colored.” Refuting this feature using by Özdikmen (2025b), see remarks in Beraba. We are provisionally synonymizing Eburia (Westindiesica) with Eburia. We are considering this ‘provisional’ because the genus will be revised with the publication of an upcoming study currently in progress and authored by two of the authors of the present work. This will not change the synonym status of Eburia (Westindiesica) —only the genus of which it is effectively a synonym, subject to any future redesignation. In the same work, Özdikmen (2025b) reported: “Therefore, I think that new subgenus is needed for the group 2. Accordingly, I propose here a new subgenus, Eburia (Martiniqueca) subgen. nov. with the type species Eburia inexpectata Touroult, 2012 for the second group.” However, he formally named the second group as Eburia (Westindiesica) and designated Eburia octomaculata Chevrolat, 1862 as the type species, including Eburia inexpectata in it. Consequently, this was an error, and Eburia (Martiniqueca) is a synonym of Eburia (Westindiesica), with both being synonyms of Eburia. This is yet another error that underscores the author’s lack of scientific rigor.