Eulasia (Eulasia) korbi (PETROVITZ, 1972)

Polat, Alper, Yildirim, Erol & Uliana, Marco, 2017, A contribution to the knowledge of the Glaphyridae and Cetoniinae (Scarabaeidae) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea) fauna of Turkey, Linzer biologische Beiträge 49 (2), pp. 1505-1522 : 1508

Eulasia (Eulasia) korbi (PETROVITZ, 1972)

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Erzurum:Aziziye,Ilıca, 08.VII.1997, ♀, Köprüköy, Geyikli, N 39°48′, E 42°04′, 2159 m, 13.VI.2013, 2♀♀, 233, Örentaş, N 40°06′, E 41°52′, 2110 m, 30.VI.2012, 2♀♀, Yakutiye, Güzelyayla, 2100 m, 16.VII.2011, 3.

N o t e s: Eulasia korbi is likely to be a colour form of Eulasia chrysopyga , as specimens with intermediate characters, or populations with not clear-cut conditions, are known. However, the two forms seems to occur mostly separately, therefore a subspecific rank may be possible. For example, among samples examined by us, all specimens from Köprüköy, Geyikli, exhibit almost completely white-yellowish long hair, departing significantly from the populations of ordinarily dark-haired E. chrysopyga observed in most of the Erzurum region. A taxonomic re-evaluation of this taxon is anyway beyond the aim of this work, and we applied to our samples the current taxonomic arrangement.