Anthrenus (Anthrenus) delicatus Kiesenwetter, 1851

Nardi, Gianluca & Hava, Jiri, 2013, Italian Dermestidae: notes on some species and an updated checklist (Coleoptera), ZooKeys 360, pp. 45-81 : 56

Anthrenus (Anthrenus) delicatus Kiesenwetter, 1851

Anthrenus pimpinellae Fabr. [= (Fabricius, 1775)] var. delicatulus [sic!] Kiesw.: Ghiliani 1887: 311.

Anthrenus pimpinellae F. var. delicatus Kiesw.: Steck 1887: 181; Ragusa 1892: 206.

Anthrenus pimpinellae Fabr. Var. delicatulus [sic!] Kiesw.: Baudi 1890: 102.

Anthrenus pimpinellae F. [var.] Isabellinae Muls. [= Mulsant & Rey, 1868]: Ragusa 1892: 206.

Anthrenus pimpinellae F. var. delicatus K.: Bertolini 1904: 59.

Anthrenus pimpinellae F. ab. delicatus Kiesw.: Luigioni 1923a: 135.

Anthrenus (Anthrenus) pimpinellae F. a. delicatus Kiesw.: = Isabellinae Muls. Rey: Luigioni 1929: 540.

Anthrenus (Anthrenus) pimpinellae Fabr. V. delicatus Kiesw.: Porta 1929: 306.

Anthrenus pimpinellae v. delicatus Kiesw.: Liebmann 1962: 4.

Anthrenus (Anthrenus) delicatus Kiesenwetter, 1851: Audisio et al. 1995: 14; Kadej 2005: 728; Lo Cascio et al. 2006: 322; Háva and Nardi 2011: 423; Zhantiev 2011a.

Anthrenus (Anthrenus) delicatus delicatus Kiesenwetter, 1852 [sic!]: Háva 2007: 312.

Material examined.

Apulia: Foggia prov., [GNP,] Promontorio del Gargano, Vieste, SP 89 [= Strada Provinciale n. 89 = Provincial Road n. 89], Casa Cupari dint., 354 m, 33T 5920001 4630150, 29.V.2010, abandoned quarry, sn on grasses, PC, Prog. Foresta Umbra, 6 ex (CNBFVR; JHAC); Foggia prov., [GNP,] Promontorio del Gargano, Peschici, Lampia del Principe dint., 161 m, 33T 587282 4639346, 28.IV.2010, maquis sn, PC, Prog. Foresta Umbra, 1 ♀ (CNBFVR). Latium: Roma prov., M.ti [= Monti = Mounts] Simbruini, Jenne dint., M.te [= Monte = Mount] Porcaro, 800 m, 31.V.2007, sn, PC GC, 1 ex (PCOP). Sicily: Palermo prov., Corleone, Bosco della Ficuzza, 700 m, 1.VI.2008, sn near a watering trough, PC GC, 1 ex (PCOP).

Chorotype.

Mediterranean, reaching eastward as far as Caucasus and Iran (cf. Kadej 2005, Háva and Nardi 2011, Zhantiev 2011b). This species is also recorded from Cyprus ( Zhantiev 2011a, Alziar and Lemaire 2012: 67, as Anthrenus delicatus ), and this country must be added to the distribution summarized by Háva and Nardi (2011).

Italian distribution.

Trentino, Venezia Giulia ( Luigioni 1929), Piedmont ( Ghiliani 1887, Baudi 1890, Bertolini 1904, Luigioni 1929), Lombardy ( Háva and Nardi 2004), Liguria ( Luigioni 1929), Latium, Campania ( Luigioni 1923a, Porta 1929), Sicily ( Ragusa 1892, Bertolini 1904, Luigioni 1929, Porta 1929, Liebmann 1962, Audisio et al. 1995, Lo Cascio et al. 2006) and Sardinia ( Bertolini 1904, Luigioni 1929, Porta 1929, Audisio et al. 1995, Háva and Nardi 2011, Zhantiev 2011a).

Moreover, Luigioni (1929) recorded this species generically for central and southern Italy; generic records for northern and peninsular Italy ( Audisio et al. 1995) and for “Italy” ( Kadej 2005, Háva 2007) refer to the above regions, the same is probably valid for a generic record for mainland Italy ( Zhantiev 2011a).

Remarks.

First detailed records from Apulia. About Sicily, Ragusa (1892) wrote Ne posseggo vari esemplari [= I have several specimens] without giving the collecting sites, so the sole known precise Sicilian localities were the Pantelleria and Lipari Islands ( Liebmann 1962, Lo Cascio et al. 2006); the above new site is located in one of the most important forested areas of western Sicily, a zone of great value for environmental conservation (cf. Sabella and Sparacio 2004, Mason et al. 2006, La Mantia et al. 2010, Falci et al. 2012). Luigioni (1923a) also recorded Anthrenus (Anthrenus) delicatus from the environs of Rome; this record was overlooked by Nardi (1997). As stated by Audisio et al. (1995: 16), the Italian distribution of this species should be verified, because it was considered for a long time as a variety or aberration of Anthrenus (Anthrenus) pimpinellae . Moreover, the colour of elytral fasciae in four of the above Apulian specimens are visually very similar to those of Anthrenus (Anthrenus) mroczkowskii Kalík, 1954, nevertheless their identification was established by the examination of the structure of antennae, 9th sternite and male genitalia (cf. Kadej 2005, Kadej et al. 2007). In this framework, it will be better to revise the specimens of Anthrenus (Anthrenus) mroczkowskii recorded so far from Italy ( Angelini 1986, as Anthrenus pimpinellae mroczkowskii , Angelini and Montemurro 1986, as Anthrenus pimpinellae mroczkowskii ). The distribution of Anthrenus (Anthrenus) mroczkowskii also includes the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Corsica, Crete, Croatia, Greece, Slovenia, European Turkey and Algeria (introduced) ( Háva 2007, as Anthrenus (Anthrenus) pimpinellae mroczkowskii , Kadej et al. 2007).