Microhoria pallidula ( Pic, 1892 ), 1980

Telnov, Dmitry & Degiovanni, Augusto, 2024, Notes On Some Greek Microhoria Chevrolat, 1877 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthicidae) With New Descriptions And Synonymy, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 24 (1), pp. 81-127 : 105-107

Microhoria pallidula ( Pic, 1892)

= Microhoria terminata ( La Ferté-Sénectère, 1849a) [homonym]

= Microhoria terminata ( La Ferté-Sénectère, 1849b) [homonym]

= Microhoria mutata ( Pic, 1892) [homonym]

= Microhoria notata (Pic, 1901) [replacement name]

There are several misconceptions and confusions with this taxon, earlier authors confused it, among others, with M. piciceps (Desbrochers, 1875) ; these sources are not listed herein.

Anthicus terminatus – La Ferté-Sénectère, 1849a: 144 (description: Greece); La Ferté-Sénectère, 1849b: 243 (duplicate description: Greece).

Anthicus mutatus – Pic 1892: 43 footnote (replacement name).

Anthicus terminatus Laf. var. pallidulus – Pic 1892: 43 (description, no type locality given). Anthicus notatus – Pic 1901c: 131 (replacement name).

Microhoria (Platyhoria) notata – Bucciarelli 1980: 196, 211 (informal new combination, key, supplementary description, illustration).

Microhoria pallidula – Chandler et al. 2008: 442 (checklist; Greece mentioned in the distribution); Telnov 2020a: 612 (checklist; Greece mentioned in the distribution).

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Type material examined. Not allocated (see below).

Taxonomy. La Ferté-Sénectère (1849a, b) twice described Anthicus terminatus from Greece. This name became homonym since it was preoccupied by W.L.E. Schmidt (1842) who already described a species from Corfu Island named A. terminatus (now Microhoria terminata ). A new name Anthicus mutatus was proposed by Pic (1892) for La Ferté-Sénectère’s species, but also this name appeared homonym since it was preoccupied by A. mutatus of Gemminger (1870). In the same paper ( Pic 1892), a name pallidulus was established for a colour variety of A. terminatus La Ferté-Sénectère which became a valid replacement name for it. Therefore, another replacement name, A. notatus , proposed later by Pic (1901c) is invalid and unnecessary.

The type material of A. terminatus La Ferté-Sénectère was not allocated at the MNHN in La Ferté-Sénectère’s collection (teste D. Telnov) and is likely not properly labelled as a type, moved to different drawer or lost .

Distribution. Greece. The records from Bulgaria, China (Tibet), Croatia, NW Kazakhstan, Morocco, Poland, Romania, southern part of the European Russia, Russian W Siberia, Syria, and Turkey are dubious and require further confirmation.