Dorcus peyronis Reiche & Saulcy, 1856

Bartolozzi, Luca, Ghahari, Hassan, Sprecher-Uebersax, Eva & Zilioli, Michele, 2014, A checklist of stag beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Lucanidae) from Iran, Zootaxa 3887 (3), pp. 422-436 : 429-430

Dorcus peyronis Reiche & Saulcy, 1856

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Dorcus peyronis Reiche & Saulcy, 1856: 407 , plate 12, fig. 9.

Dorcus vavrai Nonfried, 1905: 12 (new synonymy).

Examined material. 1 male (syntype of D. vavrai ), Khosrova, Persia, coll. Nonfried ( MZB) ; 1 male, Kuhgiloyeh & Boyerahmad: 20 km S of Yasuj, Vezg pass, 26.VI.2011, I. Legezin ( CLB).

Distribution. Palaearctic species quoted from Greece, Bulgaria, Armenia, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Iran ( Bartolozzi & Sprecher-Uebersax 2006; Bunalski et al. 2014).

Distribution in Iran. “Koshrowa, Persich Kurdistan” [= West Azerbaijan: Khosrova, Salmas] ( Nonfried 1905); Fars ( Petrovitz 1980); Kuhgiloyeh & Boyerahmad, Fars, Lorestan ( Král 2004, as D. vavrai ).

Remarks. Reiche & Saulcy (1856) gave a very detailed and accurate description of D. peyronis with a good illustration ( Fig. 5 ). During a visit to the Natural History Museum of Berlin, one of us (LB) had the opportunity to study a syntype specimen of Dorcus vavrai Nonfried, 1905 (Fig. 6) and thus to verify the identity between D. peyronis and D. vavrai (new synonymy)

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FIGURE 5. Original drawing of Dorcus peyronis (from Reiche & Saulcy 1856). FIGURE 6. Syntype specimen of Dorcus vavrai Nonfried (MZB).