Harpalus sobrinus Dejean, 1829: 341

Serrano, José, 2022, Designation of types of European Harpalini (Coleoptera: Carabidae) described by Dejean and deposited in the MNHN, Paris, Zootaxa 5141 (5), pp. 484-500 : 491

Harpalus sobrinus Dejean, 1829: 341 .

The specimen here designated as lectotype is a male bearing the labels: “male symbol”, “ sobrinus m. in Pyr. or.” and “ Lectotype of Harpalus sobrinus Dejean, 1829 desig. by J. Serrano ” .

This name has been currently considered as a synonym of Harpalus rubripes (Duftschmid, 1812) , a species that shows red coloured femurs in other areas of West Europe. Traditional works as those of Fuente (1927) and Jeannel (1942) considered H. sobrinus a mere variation of H. rubripes , a criterion also followed in the Palaearctic Catalogue ( Kataev & Wrase, 2017c).

Harpalus rubripes is an Asiatic European element found from China to Portugal.