Lacon punctatus ( Herbst, 1779 )

Hoffmannova, Johana, Packova, Gabriela, Prosvirov, Alexander S., Akhter, Muhammad Atique & Kundrata, Robin, 2023, An updated catalogue of Agrypninae (Coleoptera: Elateridae) from Pakistan, Zootaxa 5270 (2), pp. 281-305 : 288-289

Lacon punctatus ( Herbst, 1779)

Elater punctatus Herbst, 1779: 316 .

Lacon punctatus: Fleutiaux, 1926: 94 .

For more information, including synonyms, see Hayek (1973), Cate (2007), and Kundrata et al. (2019b).

Distribution. Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine ( Cate 2007, Ptashkovsky 2009, Akhter et al. 2012 a, Naz et al. 2012, Kovács & Merkl 2013, Kovács et al. 2014, Mardjanyan & Barimani Varandi 2014, Platia 2014, Kundrata et al. 2019b, Németh et al. 2020).

Literature. Akhter et al. (2012a: 44): first record from Pakistan; Naz et al. (2012: 48): revision, figures of habitus and male genitalia; Platia (2014: 75): distributional remark.

Remarks. Records from Pakistan listed by Akhter et al. (2014) and Naz et al. (2012) need confirmation ( Prosvirov 2016). It should also be noted that they represent L. punctatus punctatus , since L. punctatus oblongus ( Della Beffa, 1931) , described from “Kashmir”, was not explicitly recorded from Pakistan ( Prosvirov 2016).