Issus climacus Fieber, 1876

Issus climacus Fieber, 1876: 266, [separata 1876: 256] (Fig. 1)

Type material examined. Ƥ, lectotype (here designated) (MNHN (EH)7475), with Noualhier’s hand-written label: “ Type Fieber” (NLC).

Note. The species was based on a female (or females) from Portugal. The female from NLC corresponds to Fieber’s drawings (hind margin of VII sternum with characteristic two small horn-shaped acuminate projections medially) and it is here designated as the lectotype.

Sergel (1986) examined two males from Madrid, deposited in the NMW, determined by Melichar as Issus climacus, and figured their genitalia. The taxonomic position of this material is unclear. Sergel (1986) reinstated I. climacus from synonymy with I. lauri Ahrens, 1814 which had been proposed by Haupt (1926).