Longitarsus Latreille 1829

Farina, Laura, 2021, Notes on Longitarsus aphthonoides Weise 1887 and on the species groups of L. lateripunctatus (Rosenhauer 1856) and L. curtus (Allard 1860) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), Natural History Sciences 8 (2), pp. 11-34 : 11

Longitarsus Latreille 1829 (2: 155) (sensu Löbl & Smetana, 2010) is the world’s largest genus of Alticini, with about 500 species described. About 150 species are known for the Palaearctic Region, including 93 species

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© 2021 Laura Farina

Received: 5 February 2021

Accepted for publication: 10 May 2021

Online publication: 29 October 2021

for Italy only: see Biondi et al. (1995), with the addition of L. anacardius ( Allard 1866) sensu Leonardi & Sassi (1997) .

The aim of this paper is to provide new diagnostic characters to clarify the related taxonomy of five species of Longitarsus , and to extend the knowledge of their ranges by listing new collecting localities. The following taxa are discussed:

Longitarsus aphthonoides Weise 1887

Longitarsus callidus Warchalowski 1967

Longitarsus lateripunctatus ( Rosenhauer 1856)

Longitarsus personatus Weise 1893

Longitarsus curtus ( Allard 1860)

Longitarsus monticola Kutschera 1863