Olophrum puncticolle EPPELSHEIM 1880

Zanetti, A., 2008, Synonymies in the European Omaliinae, with notes on distribution (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (1), pp. 979-992 : 984

Olophrum puncticolle EPPELSHEIM 1880

Olophrum puncticolle EPPELSHEIM 1880 . Lectotype male (here designated) labelled puncticolle mihi Süd Ungarn Kuthy / c. Eppelsh. Steind. d. / typus (red) / aedeagus in Euparal / Lectotypus Olophrum puncticolle Epp. des. A. Zanetti 2008 (red) (Fig. 15); 2 paralectotypes female with the same data, one with the label "Fauvel 47 vidit" (blu) ; 1 paralectotype male Ludbreg Croat. Apfelbeck; 1 paralectotype female Croatia Apfelbeck ( NHMW) .

Olophrum viennense SCHEERPELTZ 1929 nov.syn. Lectotype male (here designated) labelled / Umg. Wien Mariabrunn leg. Skalitzky / puncticolle Epp. / vidit Luze / ex coll. Skalitzky (green) / Photographiert 8-12.XI.1928 O. Scheerpeltz (orange) / Typus Olophrum viennense mihi O. Scheerpeltz (red) / Lectotypus Olophrum viennense Epp. des. A. Zanetti 2008 (red) / Olophrum puncticolle Epp. det. Zanetti 2008 (Fig. 16); 1 paralectotype female (labelled as type) with the same data; 2 paralectotypes and Mödling A. i. leg. Moczarsrki; 1 paralectotype ♀ W- r Neudorf leg. Scheerpeltz; 1 paralectotype Neusiedler See leg. Ad. Hoffmann (NHMW).

C o m m e n t s: Olophrum puncicolle EPPELSHEIM 1880 is a species reported from Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Syria and Turkey ( SMETANA 2004). It is not included in the most recent Mitteleuropean checklist of Staphylinidae (ASSING & SCHÜLKE 2007) . O. viennense is reported from Austria, Czech Republic, Hungaria and Slovakia (SMETANA l.c.). According to the literature, the differences distinguishing the species are the form of the pronotum (narrower and more finely punctured in O. puncticolle ) and the shape of the aedeagus. The differences in the form and puncturation of the pronotum are inconsistent, in the type series there are specimens intermediate between the lectotypes, the aedeagi have the same shape, and despite SCHEERPELTZ’ s opinion, the presence of two large spines in the internal sac at the apex is characteristic (Figs 15-16).