Sciaphobus (Sciaphobus) barbatulus ( Germar, 1824 )

Borovec, Roman & Skuhrovec, Jiří, 2015, A review of Sciaphobus (Neosciaphobus) and descriptions of new species of Sciaphobus s. str. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (2), pp. 745-785 : 781

Sciaphobus (Sciaphobus) barbatulus ( Germar, 1824)

Eusomus barbatulus Germar, 1824: 460 (original description).

Sciaphobus (Sciaphobus) barbatulus: APFELBECK (1922) : 67 (review); WINKLER (1932): 1470 (catalogue); DALLA TORRE et al. (1937): 160 (catalogue); DIECKMANN (1980): 253 (fauna); BOROVEC (2013): 385 (catalogue).

Sciaphilus smaragdinus Boheman, 1840: 915 (original description).

Sciaphobus (Sciaphobus) barbatulus ab. smaragdinus: APFELBECK (1922) : 67 (review); WINKLER (1932): 1470 (catalogue); DALLA TORRE et al. (1937): 160 (catalogue).

Type locality. Eusomus barbatulus : ‘Illyria [= historical territorry in western Balkans corresponding roughly to present day Slovenia, Croatia and southwestern Austria]’, Sciaphilus smaragdinus : ‘Dalmatia’

Type material examined. LECTOTYPE (here designated): ♀ (5.69 mm long, funicle with club missing), ‘ ♀ [handwritten] / Thylacites smaragdinus Dej.Dalmatia [handwritten] / Typus [red, printed] / NRM Sthlm Loan 2733/08 [green, printed] / LECTOTYPUS Sciaphilus smaragdinus Boheman, R. Borovec desig. 2013 [red, printed] / Sciaphobus barbatulus (Germar) , R. Borovec det. 2013 [printed].’

Remarks. BOHEMAN (1854) described S. smaragdinus from unknown number of specimens and stated ‘Dalmatia, A. Dom. Germar et Com. Dejean missus. Mus Schh.’ We found only one specimen in the NHRS collections that belongs to the type series and comes from Dejeanʼs collection. There are two more specimens pinned under the name ‘ smaragdinus ’, however these bear different labels ‘Dalmat’ and ‘Ferrari’ and we do not assume that they belong to the type series.