Hypocacculus (Colpellus) solieri (Marseul)

Penati, Fabio, 2009, An updated catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia, with faunistic, zoogeographical, ecological and conservation remarks *, Zootaxa 2318, pp. 197-280 : 265

Hypocacculus (Colpellus) solieri (Marseul)

Saprinus Solieri Marsh. [sic!]: Bargagli 1871: 41

Saprinus Solieri Muls. : Bertolini 1872 –1878: 84

Saprinus Solieri Mars. : Bertolini 1904: 49

Literature data. “ Sardinia ” ( Bargagli 1871; Bertolini 1872 –1878, 1904; Vienna 1980; Mazur 1984; Audisio et al. 1995; Mazur 1997, 2004; Yélamos & Lackner 2004).

Notes. I consider the record of this species from Sardinia as based on a misidentification of specimens actually belonging to the closely related Hypocacculus (Colpellus) praecox , which certainly occurs on the island (see faunistic list). After having been ignored by Porta (1926) and by Luigioni (1929) and cited with doubt by Vienna (1980), H. solieri was removed from the Italian fauna by Penati and Vienna (2002). This was confirmed by the absence, in the examined collections, of specimens from Sardinia and other Italian localities (see also Penati & Vienna 2005, 2006a).