Stigmatogaster gracilis (Meinert, 1870)

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18. Stigmatogaster gracilis (Meinert, 1870)

Stigmatogaster gracilis Mein.: Pocock 1894: 164. (1)

Stigmatogaster gracilis Mein.: Léger and Duboscq 1903: 311. (2)

Diadenoschisma gracile Mein.: Verhoeff 1925a: 656. (3)

Stigmatogaster gracilis provincialis Chal. and Rib.: Attems 1929: 39. (4)

Stigmatogaster gracilis , subsp. provincialis Chalande et Ribaut, 1909: Brölemann 1930: 77, figs 53-55. (5)

Stigmatogaster gracilis (Meinert, 1870): Minelli 1978: 156. (6)

Stigmatogaster gracilis (Meinert, 1870) provincialis Chalande et Ribaut, 1909: Demange 1981: 227. (7)

Stigmatogaster gracilis (Meinert, 1870): Foddai et al. 1996: 361, Tab. I. (8)

Stigmatogaster gracilis (Meinert, 1870): Iorio 2004a: 32. (9)

Stigmatogaster gracilis (Meinert, 1870): Geoffroy and Iorio 2009: 682. (10)

Literature records.

General. Sardinia-Corsica (6). Corsica (3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10). Epigeic. Corse-du-Sud, 2A - Ajaccio (le Salario) (1, 2) [I]. Haute-Corse, 2B - Bastia (2) [I]. Corte (2) [I]. Giraglia Is. (8) [I]. Haute-Asco, near Mount Cinto, ca 1600 m, hygrophilous meadow (9) [III]. Vizzavona (2) [III].

Material examined.

Epigeic. Corse-du-Sud, 2A - Ajaccio, Sagone/Vico, approx 300 m, (code 74-4): 27.IX.1974, KT, 1 ♂ 91 lp MZ det. (NHMW) [I]. N Ajaccio, approx 20 m, (code 74-8): 29.IX.1974, KT, 1 ♂ 99 lp MZ det. (NHMW) [I]. N Ajaccio, Golfe de Lava, 10-200 m, (code 74-6): 28.IX.1974, KT, 1 ♀ 101 lp MZ det. (NHMW) [I]. S Ajaccio, Col Cortone, approx 550 m, (code 74-25): 7.X.1974, KT, 3 ♂♂ 97, 101, 101 lp MZ det. (NHMW) [I].S Ajaccio, N Porto Pollo, 100 m, (code 74-14): 2.X.1974, KT, 1 ♂ 99 lp MZ det. (NHMW) [I]. S Ajaccio, Port de Chiavari, obh. Coti, approx 400 m, (code 74-10): 29.IX.1974, KT, 1 ♀ 99 lp MZ det. (NHMW) [I]. S Ajaccio, Porto Pollo, approx 15 m, (code 74-15): 2.X.1974, KT, 1 ♀ 103 lp MZ det. (NHMW) [I]. S Ajaccio, uhb. Coti/Chiavari, approx 300 m, (code 74-24): 7.X.1974, KT, 2 ♀♀ 95, 97 lp MZ det. (NHMW) [I]. Villanova, canton d’Ajaccio: 11.XI.1967, PB, 1 ♂ 95 lp EI det. (MNHN) [I].

General distribution.

Europe: Albania, Croatia, France (mainland, Corsica), Greece (mainland, insular excluding Crete), Italy (mainland, Sicily, Sardinia), Montenegro, Spain (Balearic Is.); North Africa: Algeria, Tunisia.

Chorotype.

Mediterranean.

Ecological notes.

10-1600 m, mostly below 550 m; chiefly recorded from localities in the Mesomediterranean belt but also present in the Montane belt where one record from hygrophilous meadows is known.