Notes on the subspecies of Plagionotus arcuatus (Linnaeus, 1758) with description of a new subspecies from Iran (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
Author
Królik, Roman
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ul. Mickiewicza 8, 46 - 200 Kluczbork, Poland. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5499 - 8193
Author
Kruszelnicki, Lech
0000-0002-4360-2031
ul. Władysława Jagiełły 7 c / 45, 41 - 106 Siemianowice Śląskie, Poland. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4360 - 2031
Author
Lasoń, Andrzej
0000-0003-2331-3459
ul. Wiejska 4 B / 85, 15 - 352 Białystok, Poland. https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2331 - 3459
Author
Walczak, Marcin
Institute of Biology, Biotechnology and Environmental Protection, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice, Bankowa 9, 40 - 007 Katowice, Poland.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-03-16
4942
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558
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journal article
7584
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Plagionotus arcuatus arcuatus
(Linnaeus, 1758)
(
Figs. 1.A–B
)
Callidium lunatus
Fabricius, 1782
Clytus salicis
Schrank, 1798
Plagyonotus reichei
J. Thomson, 1861
Clytus apicalis
Hampe, 1863
Plagionotus stauropolibus
Pic, 1915
Plagionotus martialis
Pic, 1918
Plagionotus buyssoni
Dauphin, 1924
Plagionotus pagnioni
Pic, 1925
Plagionotus milliati
Pic, 1934
Plagionotus interrupteconnatus
G. Schmidt, 1951
Plagionotus plavilstshikovi
G. Schmidt, 1951
Plagionotus arcuatus tastani
Özdikmen, Atak & Uçkan, 2017
syn. nov.
The recently described
P. arcuatus tastani
(
Özdikmen, Atak & Uçkan 2017
)
does not, in our opinion, warrant subspecific status. According with the authors in the original description: “It is characterized by poor developed transverse stripes behind the middle of elytra especially. Antemedian band of elytra usually (
9 males
and
11 females
of
30 specimens
) is more or less complete but sometimes (
3 males
and
7 females
of
30 specimens
) is divided into an outer and an inner spots.” These characters not infrequently occur in specimens from different parts of Europe (
Figs. 1.A
). As can be seen from this description these characters are not constant even among the specimens from the typical series. The phrase “erect abdominal setae are not very dense” is rather imprecise and could refer to many specimens of any subspecies of
P. arcuatus
. The
type
locality of
P. a. tastani
Özdikmen, Atak & Uçkan 2017
(
Kocaeli province
in
Turkey
) lies not very far from the contiguous distribution range of
P. a.
arcuatus
, and it is hard to imagine that the Bosphorus strait constitutes a real barrier to the various subspecies, especially as specimens of this synonymized taxon differ in no way from those caught in the Turkish Strandzha region, close to the frontier with
Bulgaria
(
Fig. 5
).
Özdikmen & Turgut (2009)
, writing about
P. arcuatus
state that “It distributes mostly in North and West
Turkey
”; in our opinion, this information applies to the nominative subspecies.