Ditomus cephalotes Dejean, 1826: 482

Serrano, José, 2022, Designation of types of European Harpalini (Coleoptera: Carabidae) described by Dejean and deposited in the MNHN, Paris, Zootaxa 5141 (5), pp. 484-500 : 487

Ditomus cephalotes Dejean, 1826: 482 .

The specimen hereby recognized as holotype is a male bearing the labels: “ cephalotes m.”, “ Tanger. B. Jenisson ”, “ex-Museo Chaudoir” and “ Holotype of Ditomus cephalotes Dejean, 1826 desig. by J. Serrano ”. Thus, labels match the description: Il se trouve sur la côte de Barbarie, et il m’a été donné par M. le comte de Jenisson comme venant des environs de Tanger. Since this was the sole specimen found in Dejean’s collection at Paris with the original labels, the specimen is recognized as the holotype by monotypy .

The species may be easily identified following the keys of Fuente (1927) and Antoine (1959). The taxonomic placement and limits of the genus Odontocarus has been subjected to many controversies (see Wrase, 1994), but nowadays is currently ranked as an independent genus; it includes seven species with a Centro Asiatic Mediterranean distribution pattern ( Kataev & Wrase, 2017b).

Odontocarus cephalotes ( Dejean, 1826) is the single species of the genus inhabiting the West Mediterranean.