Attagenus (Attagenus) calabricus Reitter, 1881

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Attagenus (Attagenus) calabricus Reitter, 1881

Attagenus calabricus Reitter, 1881: 37.

Attagenus (Lanorus) calabricus Reitt.: Reitter 1883: 89; Reitter 1891: 337; Ragusa 1892: 204; Reitter 1906: 378; Dalla Torre 1911: 52; Winkler 1926: 676; Luigioni 1929: 538; Porta 1929: 302.

Megatoma calabrica Rttr.: Reitter 1887: 48.

Attagenus calabricus Reitt.: Bertolini 1904: 58; Panganetti-Hummler 1918: 87; Schatzmayr 1941: 73; Angelini 1986: 74; Angelini and Montemurro 1986: 573; Angelini 1987: 38; Angelini 1991: 206.

Attagenus calabricus Rtt.: Liebmann 1962: 4.

Attagenus calabricus Reitter, 1881: Mroczkowski 1968: 82; Sparacio 1997: 73.

Attagenus (Lanorus) calabricus Reitter, 1881: Audisio et al. 1995: 13.

Attagenus (Attagenus) calabricus Reitter, 1881: Háva 2003: 59; Háva 2007: 308; Zhantiev 2011a.

Material examined.

Abruzzi: Pescara prov., Maiella, Valle Orfento, Caramanico, 23.VI.1988, G. Osella leg., 1 ex (JHAC). Apulia: Brindisi prov., Francavilla Fontana, 30.V.1998, C. Esposito leg., 1 ex (GNAC); [Foggia prov., GNP,] Mattinata, 22.VI.1991, on flowers on the beach, M. Mantic leg., 4 ex (JHAC); [Foggia prov., GNP,] Gargano, Mattinata, 8-10.V.1995, Z. Svec leg., 1 ex (JHAC); [Foggia prov., GNP, Vico del Gargano, Fraz.] San Menaio, V.1996, M. Fikacek leg., 2 ex (JHAC); Taranto prov., Circ. [= Circum] Mar Piccolo, 24.V.1992, Montemurro leg., 1 ex (JHAC); Taranto prov., Grottaglie, VI.1369 [sic!], FA, 1 ex (MCSV). Basilicata: [Matera prov.,] Marina di Nova Siri, 4.VI.2008, W. Apfel leg., 1 ex (JHAC); [Matera prov.,] Matera, 4.VI.1989, FA, 1 ex (AHG); [Matera prov.,] Matera, 350 m, 4.VI.1989, FA, 11 ex (MCSV); Potenza prov., Francavilla sul Sinni, 320 m, 5.VI.1988, querceta [= oak wood], FA, 1 ex (MCSV); [Potenza or Matera prov.,] Pollino, 19.VI.1994, FA, 1 ex (AHG). Calabria: "Calabria / Baudi [leg.]" [handwritten by unknown], "Holotypus 1881 / Attagenus / Calabricus / Reitter" [red-framed; handwritten by unknown], "Calabricus m. / Calab. Baudi [leg.]" [handwritten probably by Reitter], "coll. Reitter" [printed], "Lectotype / Attagenus calabricus Reitter / J. Háva des. 2012", 1 ex (HNHM); "Calabria / Baudi [leg.]" [handwritten by unknown], "Paratypus 1881 / Attagenus / Calabricus / Reitter" [red-framed; handwritten by unknown], "coll. Reitter [printed]", "Paralectotype / Attagenus calabricus Reitter / J. Háva des. 2012", 1 ex (HNHM); Calabria [without further data], 1 ex (JHAC); [Cosenza prov., Cassano all‘Ionio, Fraz.] Marina di Sibari env., 3 m, sandy dunes, 14.6.2009, P. Kresl leg., 6 ex (JHAC); [Cosenza prov.,] Roseto Capo Spulico, 27.V.-3.VI.2006, V. Hron leg., 1 ex (JHAC); [Cosenza prov.,] Sila, Mte. [= Mount] Oliveto, 2.VII.1929, C. Confalonieri leg., 1 ex (JHAC); [Cosenza prov.,] Sila, Sud [= South of] S. Giovanni [in] Fiore, 1100 m, 4.VII.[19]87, FA, 2 ex (MCSV); Reggio Calabria prov., Asprom. [= Aspromonte], str. [= strada = road] Cimina-Zomaro, 600-800 m, 6.VI.1994, FA, 6 ex (JHAC).

Chorotype.

Apenninic endemic ( Háva 2007).

Italian distribution.

Campania ( Luigioni 1929), Apulia ( Panganetti-Hummler 1918, Luigioni 1929, Angelini 1987), Basilicata ( Angelini 1986, Angelini and Montemurro 1986), Calabria ( Bertolini 1904, Luigioni 1929, Porta 1929, Schatzmayr 1941, Angelini 1991) and Sicily ( Ragusa 1892, Bertolini 1904, Winkler 1926, Luigioni 1929, Porta 1929, Liebmann 1962, Mroczkowski 1968, Audisio et al. 1995, Sparacio 1997, Háva 2003, 2007, Zhantiev 2011a).

The generic records for Italy ( Reitter 1883, 1891, 1906, Dalla Torre 1911, Winkler 1926, Mroczkowski 1968, Háva 2003, 2007), peninsular Italy ( Audisio et al. 1995), southern Italy ( Sparacio 1997) and mainland Italy ( Zhantiev 2011a) refer to the above listed regions.

Remarks.

First record from the Abruzzi region; this new site (cf. Osella 1988) is at the northernmost limit of the species distribution, while the above record from the Brindisi province is at the easternmost limit. The southernmost site is the Pantelleria Island in the Sicilian Channel ( Liebmann 1962).

Reitter (1881) described this species without giving any locality of collecting (see also Reitter 1887), but based on the specific name, the type locality is apparently in the Calabria region (southern peninsular Italy). The species was described based on an unspecified number of specimens without any type designation ( Reitter 1881). The two type specimens above are thus syntypes and are designated here as lectotype and paralectotype, respectively; in this way “Calabria” becomes the type locality of the species ( ICZN 1999, art. 76.2).