Staphylinus longo-elytratus Goeze, 1777: 729
Lesteva longelytrata: Luze 1903: 189, Johansen 1914: 589, Portevin 1929: 437, Palm 1948: 119, Jeannel & Jarrige 1949: 320, Lohse 1956: 56, 1960: 2, 1964: 59, Tóth 1982: 99
Lesteva (s.str.) longelytrata: Bordoni 1973: 234
Lesteva (s.str.) longoelytrata longoelytrata: Zanetti 1987: 353, 2012: 69, Tronquet 2006: 33
Lesteva (s.str.) longoelytrata: Shavrin 2014: 130
Staphylinus macroclytron Geoffroy, 1785: 164
Staphylinus bicolor Paykull, 1789: 21
Carabus dimidiatus Panzer, 1795: 367
Staphylinus multipunctatus Block, 1799: 117
Staphylinus obscurus Paykull, 1800: 388
Carabus staphylinoides Marsham, 1802: 464
Lesteva punctulata Latreille, 1804: 369
Anthophagus intermedius Gravenhorst, 1806: 221
Lesteva longula Mannerheim, 1830: 57
Lesteva impressa Stephens, 1834: 363
Lesteva nigripes Stephens, 1834: 363
Lesteva planipennis Stephens, 1834: 363
Lesteva rufitarsis Stephens, 1834: 362
Lesteva oblonga Motschulsky, 1858: 493
Lesteva major Mulsant & Rey, 1870: 117 [= 1871: 93]
Lesteva longelytrata var. dorsalis Reitter, 1909: 184
Lesteva soror Smetana, 1967: 300
Material examined. SPAIN: PAIS VASCO: 1 ♂, 1 ♀: Torre. 2000 m a.s.l.. 15.11.1997. P. Poot leg. (cW); ARAGÓN: 1 ♂: Monte Perdido, Collata Añisolo. 2400 m a.s.l. 25.08.2005. A. Anichtchenko leg. (cSh); CASTILLA Y LÉON: 1 ♂: Astorga. Paganetti leg. (FMNH); 1 ♂: Palencia. Paganetti leg. (FMNH); MADRID: 1 ♂, 1 ♀: Cercedilla (MNCN); 50 ♂♂, 42 ♀♀: same loality. 05.1909. Bolivar leg. (MNCN); 1 ♂: Madrid. 06.1909 (MNCN); 1 ♂: Madrid. 1926. Lindberg leg. (MZHF); 1 ♀: Navacerrada. Martin leg. (IRSN); 1 ♂: Guadarrama, Eppelsheim leg. (SF); 1 ♂: ‘ Serra Guadarrama Escorial’ (NHMB); 2 ♀♀: same locality. J. Ildefonso leg. (NMPC); EXTREMADURA: 1 ♂, 1 ♀: La Granja (IRSN, BMNH); ANDALUSÍA: 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, 13 exs.: Granada, Mt. Mulhacen. 2000 m a.s.l. 21.05.1967. M.E. Bacchus & B. Levey leg. (BMNH, MHNG); 1 ♂: Capileira. 1500 m a.s.l. 28.09.1993. P. Wunderle leg. (cW); 1 ♀: Sierra Nevada, Barranco de Cauchiles. 2000 m a.s.l. 23.07.1971. (cW); 1 ex.: ‘ Andalusia’ (ZIN); 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀: ‘ Kraatz’, ‘ Andalusien’, ‘ Coll. K. Neumann’ (SF); 1 ♂: ‘ Sierra Nevada nivicola Kr. ’ (IRSN); LOCALITY NOT SPECIFIED: 1 ♂: ‘ Spanien’ (NHMB).
Additional material. FRANCE: 1 ♀: Grottes de Bétharram (IRSN); 10 exs: Col de Peyresourde. 5,000 - 6,500 ft, in wet moss by stream. 04.09.1968 (BMNH); 1 ♂, 1 ♀: ‘ Lesteva pubescens Mnh. H. Pyrenees’ (MNCN); MOROCCO: 1 ♂: Sidi Ali Lake, 50 km S Ifrane. 6700 ft, island in lake, flood debris. 11.05.1961 (BMNH); ALGERIA: 1 ♂: ‘ mt. Babor Algérie’ (IRSN); LOCALITY NOT SPECIFIED: 3 exs.: ‘ Pyrenaei’ (ZIN).
Remarks. Lesteva l. longoelytrata is a West Palaearctic subspecies, distributed in Orkney Islands, Faroe Islands, Iceland and Britain Isles through North Africa, Europe, Caucasus, Turkey, Lebanon, Cyprus, Turkmenistan and Iran (Shavrin 2014), replaced by L. l. maura Erichson, 1840 in Corsica and Sardinia, and by L. l. cretica Lohse & Steel, 1961 in Crete (Zanetti 1987). The status of these subspecies requires confirmation. In North Africa L. l. longoelytrata is known from Morocco (Koch 1941, Coiffait 1973) and Algeria (Fauvel 1878, 1886, 1902). This species is very common in the Iberian Peninsula (Gamarra & Outerelo 2008) and known from both Portugal and Spain (Kiesenwetter 1851, Heyden 1870, Quedenfeldt 1884, Champion & Chapman 1905, Lindberg & Bernhauer 1931, Koch 1940, Jeannel & Jarrige 1949, Jarrige 1954, Lohse 1960, Outerelo et al. 1998, etc.).