Simopsis planidorsis (Seidlitz)

Pierotti, Helio, Bellò, Cesare & Alonso-Zarazaga, Miguel A., 2010, 2376, Zootaxa 2376, pp. 1-96 : 11

Simopsis planidorsis (Seidlitz)

Peritelus (Peritelus) planidorsis Seidlitz, 1866: 291 ; Stierlin, 1883: 586.

Otiorrhynchus (Homorythmus) planidorsis (Seidlitz) : Reitter, 1913: 73; Hustache, 1923: 83.

Peritelus planidorsis (Seidlitz) : Tenenbaum, 1915: 119.

Peritelus (Homorhythmus) planidorsis (Seidlitz) : Solari & Solari, 1922: 55.

Homorhythmus planidorsis (Seidlitz) : Lona, 1937: 252.

Homorythmus planidorsis (Seidlitz) : Hoffmann, 1950: 157.

Simo planidorsis (Seidlitz) : Pierotti & Bellò, 1998: 103; Alonso-Zarazaga, 2002: 24.

Simopsis planidorsis (Seidlitz) : Pierotti & Bellò, 2006: 54.

Peritelus planidorsis var. subimpressus Pic, 1920: 11 (unavailable).

Peritelus nebrodensis Reitter, 1913: 73 ; Solari & Solari, 1922: 55 (synonymy).

Peritelus grandis Desbrochers sensu Reitter, 1913: 73 .

Diagnosis. Species of medium to large size (4.7–9.5 mm), distinguished by flattened scape and pronotal and elytral dorsum, by setae evidently widened at apex and appressed on elytral dorsum and by slender metatarsi, with first metatarsomere and onychium elongate.

Distribution. Southern France, recorded from Alpes Maritimes to Aude but always very local (type locality: outskirts of Toulon, Fréjus). Spanish literature records: Balearic Is. ( Tenenbaum, 1915).

Genus Peritelus Germar

Peritelus Germar, 1824: 407 ; Pierotti & Bellò, 1998: 84; Alonso-Zarazaga & Lyal, 1999: 172.

Peritelus (Peritelus) Germar sensu Lona, 1937: 256 ; Hoffmann, 1950: 165.

Pedanus Fischer (de Waldheim), 1829: 96 .

Type species: Peritelus sphaeroides Germar, 1824 , by subsequent designation.

For description see Pierotti & Bellò (1998). As here delimited (see the new genera Euplister and Pseudoperitelus ), a genus with a Turanic-European distribution, with a possible Maghreb extension ( Fig. 60). Includes three species ( P. sphaeroides Germar, 1824 , P. familiaris Boheman, 1834 and P. ruficornis C. Brisout, 1863 ); imported to North-America, doubtfully represented in Spain by a single species: