Leptusa (Stictopisalia) ionopolitana PACE 1982

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Leptusa (Stictopisalia) ionopolitana PACE 1982 ( Figs 49-51 , Map 2 )

Leptusa (Stictopisalia) ionopolitana PACE 1982: 587 f.

T y p e m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Holotype 3: " Turquie, Kastamonu, Inebolu-Küre , 700 m, 18. V.76, Besuchet Löbl / Holotypus Leptusa ionopolitana m, det. R. Pace 1981 / Leptusa ionopolitana n. sp., det. R. Pace 1981" ( MHNG) . Paratypes: 233, 2♀♀ [type status uncertain]: " Turquie, Kastamonu, Küre à 5 km N, 600 m, 18. V.76, Besuchet Löbl" ( MHNG) ; 13, 3♀♀ [type status uncertain]: " Turqie, Kastamonu, S\ Inebolu , 600 m, 18. V.76, Besuchet Löbl" ( MHNG) ; 1♀ [type status uncertain]: " Turquie, Kastamonu, S/ Küre à 5 km S, 1200 m, 18. V.76, Besuchet Löbl" ( MHNG) ; 233, 1♀: " Turquie - Kastamonu, à 13 km E Ağli , 1200 m, 18. V.76, Besuchet Löbl" ( MHNG) .

C o m m e n t: The original description of L. ionopolitana is based on eight specimens from " Turquie, Kastamonu, Inebolu-Küre, 700 m, 18.V.76, leg. Besuchet-Löbl" and three specimens from "a 13 km E da Agli, 1200 m, 18.V.76, leg. Besuchet-Löbl" ( PACE 1982). According to this description, the holotype is deposited in "coll. Mus. Genève", but it is not specified, which of the type specimen is designated as the holotype and which is the type locality. Also, only one of the above type specimens was actually collected in the locality "Inebolu-Küre" and at " 700 m ". Moreover, there are more specimens labelled as paratypes than there are type specimens indicated in the original description. Consequently, the type status of all the paratypes, except for those from " 13 km E Ağli", is uncertain. The aedeagus and the spermatheca of this species are illustrated in Figs 49-51 . This species is currently known only from four localities in Kastamonu province ( Map 2 ).

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Map 2: Distributions of four species of the subgenus Stictopisalia in northern Turkey, based on revised records: Leptusa ionopolitana PACE (open circles), L. fibula ASSING (filled circles), L. amisensis PACE (open square), and L. flagellulifera nov.sp. (filled squares).

Figs 49-54: Leptusa ionopolitana PACE (49-51), L. amisensis PACE (52), and L. sengleti PACE (53- 54): (49, 53) median lobe of aedeagus in lateral view; (50-52) spermatheca; (54) male sternite VII. Scale bars: 54: 0.2 mm; 49-53: 0.1 mm.