Lathrobium lineatocolle SCRIBA 1859

Assing, V., 2010, On Lathrobium castaneipenne KOLENATI (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 42 (2), pp. 1073-1076 : 1075

Lathrobium lineatocolle SCRIBA 1859 ; revalidated

Lathrobium lineatocolle SCRIBA 1859: 414 f.

Lathrobium castaneipenne: ASSING (2009) .

T y p e m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d Lectotype, present designation: " Hassia / lineatocolle Scriba x / coll. Kraatz / DEI Müncheberg / Lectotypus Lathrobium lineatocolle Scriba , desig. V. Assing 2010 / Lathrobium lineatocolle Scriba , det. V. Assing 2010" (SDEI). Paralectotype [photo examined]: " / Selignstdt / Seligenstadt, Scriba / Czwal, ... [illegible] / Fauv. vid. / Coll. K. Neumann" (SMF).

A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Romania: 1, 1, "Marmaros-Sziget" (NHMW). For previously studied material see ASSING (2009).

C o m m e n t: The original description is based on two male and four female syntypes collected "im Anspülicht des Mains bei Seligenstadt" ( SCRIBA 1859). The specimen in the Kraatz collection at the SDEI only has the label " Hassia " attached to it, but there is little doubt that it represents one of the male syntypes. According to BEHNE (pers. comm.), Kraatz was in the habit of marking type specimens with an asterisk behind the species name (see cited labels above). The specimen is here designated as the lectotype. According to HASTENPFLUG- VESMANIS (E-mail, 3 Feb., 2010), there is a female syntype (now a paralectotype) also in the collections of the SMF. The labels are cited above based on a photograph.

Lathrobium lineatocolle has been regarded as a synonym of L. castaneipenne at least since EPPELSHEIM (1879). It is now reinstated for the species that has been interpreted as L. castaneipenne by most previous authors and that is widespread at least in Europe and has been reported also from the East Palaearctic region.

For characters separating L. lineatocolle from L. permutatum and illustrations of the male sexual characters see ASSING (2009).