Referring to
Caccodes granicollis (Fender, 1951), sometimes listed as
Caccodes granicollis (McKey-Fender, 1951) (
https://bugguide.net/node/view/2434849)
The original publication with the description is:
Fender, K. M. 1951. Malthini of North America. Amer. Midl. Nat., 4(3): 513-629 (p. 520, plate II, figs. 10, 11).
https://doi.org/10.2307/2421804
The full name listed there is "Kenneth Fender". He wrote a number of papers that are available in the
Biodiversity Heritage Library, and there is a bibliography for him at
Wikispecies.
The
GBIF entry lists the authorship as "McKey-Fender". That seems to be based on an ITIS.gov entry for taxon 834796. Only this taxon has the name McKey-Fender attached in ITIS. The publication referenced by ITIS is:
Remarks on a Few Species of Malthinus Latreille (Coleoptera: Cantharidae: Malthinini) from the United States
W. Wittmer. The Coleopterists Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Sep., 1980), pp. 271-279 (9 pages).
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4000060
That publication (p. 278) lists the taxon as
Caccodes granicollis (Fender).
McKey-Fender has a separate publication history:
Kenneth Fender references "McKey-Fender" in: A new subspecies of Cantharis hatchi McKey-Fender (Coleoptera: Cantharidae). K M Fender. Pan-Pacific Entomologist, in 1968, in volume 44, pages 300-301. They must be two different people!
This references:
McKey-Fender, D. 1950. Notes on Cantharis III (Coleoptera : Cantharidae) Pan-Pac. Entomol., 26 (1) : 25-79.
This appears to be a publication by a spouse who used a hyphenated name.
Ohio State University confirms this:
McKey-Fender, D. (Dorothy)
Alias(es): McKey, D.; Fender, D. M.
Looks like a spouse as opposed to a name change, as also listed as "D. McKey". There is a BHL bibliography for her as
McKey-Fender, Dorothy.
As further corroboration, here is a
video tribute to "Dorothy McKey Fender", who appears to be an academic. There is a photo of her with a male of about the same age, perhaps Kenneth Fender.
I cannot find detailed obituaries for either of them. Perhaps others will be able to do so.
My conclusion is the proper name of the beetle is
Caccodes granicollis (Fender, 1951). The use of "(McKey-Fender, 1951)" is due to an erroneous entry at ITIS.
Edit.
plazi.org contains biographical details:
Bradycellus fenderi Hatch, 1951: 120. Type locality: "Depoe Bay [Lincoln County], Ore[gon]" (original citation). Holotype location unknown (not in USNM). Etymology. This species was named after Kenneth M. Fender [1910-1987], a rural mail carrier at McMinnville, Oregon, and collector of Pacific Northwest beetles. Along with his wife, Dorothy McKey, Fender specialized in Lycidae and Cantharidae and the two published several taxonomic papers together.
Edit. Biographical details of Dorothy McKey-Fender (1916-2018) are given by
PSU Herbarium. They do not mention Kenneth.
Edit.
Family Search notes:
Kenneth Mark Fender
Male
7 April 1910–8 November 1987
Kenneth Mark Fender was born on 7 April 1910, in Oregon, United States, his father, Walter Scott Fender, was 32 and his mother, Martha L. Fink, was 37. He married Dorothy Fay McKey on 29 May 1937, in Yamhill, Oregon, United States. ... He died on 8 November 1987, in McMinnville, Yamhill, Oregon, United States, at the age of 77.
Wikispecies entries for:
Kenneth Fender
Dorothy McKey-Fender
