Case 3443 Tentyria Latreille, 1802 (Insecta Coleoptera, TENEBRIONIDAE): proposed conservation of usage by designation of Tentyria ligurica Solier, 1835 as the type species Patrice Bouchard Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, Canada (e-mail: bouchardpb@agr.gc.ca) Ivan Löbl Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Case Postale 6434, CH-1211, Geneva, Switzerland (e-mail: ivan.lobl@bluewin.ch) Martin Lillig Krämersweg 55, D-66123 Saarbrücken, Germany; Institut für Natur-, Landshafts- und Umweltschutz- Biogeographie, Universita ¨t Basel, St. Johanns-Vorstadt 10, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland (e-mail: martin.lillig@t-online.de) Abstract. The purpose of this application, under Article 69 of the Code, is to conserve the usage of the generic name Tentyria Latreille, 1802 by designation of Tentyria ligurica Solier, 1835 as the type species of this genus of darkling beetles from the Palaearctic region. A series of previous nomenclatural acts resulted in the designation of Pimelia orbiculata Fabricius, 1775 as the type species of both Tentyria Latreille, 1802 and Tentyrina Reitter, 1900 making Tentyrina Reitter, 1900 an objective junior synonym of Tentyria Latreille, 1802. It is proposed that all previous fixations of type species of Tentyria Latreille, 1802 be set aside and Tentyria ligurica Solier, 1835 be designated as the type species. Keywords. Nomenclature; Coleoptera; TENEBRIONIDAE; TENTYRIINI; Tentyria; Tenty- rina; Tentyria ligurica; Tentyrina orbiculata; darkling beetles; Palaearctic region. 1. Latreille (1802, p. 170) described a new genus Tentyria and included two species in it, Pimelia glabra Fabricius, 1775 (p. 253) (citing it as Akis glabra) and Pimelia orbiculata Fabricius, 1775 (p. 253) (citing it as Akis orbiculata). Although the species concept of Pimelia orbiculata is well-understood (Gebien, 1906, 1910, 1937; Peyerimhoff, 1907; Schuster, 1938; Löbl et al., 2008), the identity of Pimelia glabra has been problematic. The only specimen in the Kiel Museum purported to be the type of P. glabra (see Zimsen, 1964) cannot be this species as it differs from the original description with regard to its elytral characters (see Gebien, 1906). The main collection of Fabricius (the Kiel Collection) was transferred on loan to ZMUC (Denmark, Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen, Zoological Museum) in 1950, 110 Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 65(2) June 2008