Attalus sicanus Erichson 1840
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- 1. Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ- 148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic; e-mail: vladimir _ svihla @ nm. cz
- 2. Ministry for Rural Affairs and the Environment, Agricultural Research and Development Centre, Ghammieri, Marsa, Malta; e-mail: david. a. mifsud @ gov. mt
Description
Attalus sicanus Erichson, 1840: 91.
Attalus melitensis var. testaceipes Pic, 1903b: 169, syn. nov.
Attalus melitensis var. testaceipes: CAMERON & CARUANA GATTO (1907): 397.
Attalus var. testaceipes: TONNA- BARTHET (1931): 7.
Attalus melitensis testaceipes: CILIA (1989): 119.
Material examined. MALTA: 1 ex. (BMNH): 7337 [= June 1902, A. dalmatinus, Jniena] // M. Cameron Coll. B.M. 1936-555 // var. testaceipes [Pic’s handwriting], [? Syntype]; 15 exs. (BMNH): M. Cameron Coll. B.M. 1936-555.
Distribution. Tunisia, Algeria, Balearics, Sardinia, Sicily, Austria, Croatia, Greece and Turkey (GREINER 1937, PLATA & SANTIAGO 1990) and Malta.
Comments. Attalus sicanus represents a new record for the Maltese Islands. This species is now known with certainty from Sicily and Malta, and its occurrence in the Balearics and Sardinia is possible. However, the occurrence in all the other countries mentioned by PLATA & SANTIAGO (1990) is very unlikely and possibly refers to other species such as A. dalmatinus Erichson, 1840. PIC (1903b) described A. melitensis var. testaceipes on the basis of Cameron’s material, which was at least partly available for examination. This material is identical to specimens of A. sicanus from Sicily; hence the above synonymy is established.
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.5176714 (DOI)
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Melyridae
- Genus
- Attalus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Erichson
- Species
- sicanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Attalus sicanus Erichson, 1840 sec. Švihla & Mifsud, 2006
References
- ERICHSON W. F. 1840: Entomographien, Untersuchungen in dem Gebiete der Entomologie, mit besonderer Benutzung der Konigl. Sammlung zu Berlin. Erstes Heft. F. H. Morin, Berlin, x + 180 pp + 2 pls.
- PIC M. 1903 b: Especes et varietes nouvelles de Coleopteres [2. article] (1). L'Echange, Revue Linneenne 19: 169 - 171.
- CAMERON M. & CARUANA GATTO A. 1907: A list of the Coleoptera of the Maltese Islands. Transaction of the Entomological Society of London 59: 383 - 403.
- CILIA J. L. 1989: Coleoptera. In: SCHEMBRI P. J. & SULTANA J. (eds.): Red Data Book for the Maltese Islands. Department of Information, Malta, viii + 142 pp.
- GREINER J. 1937: Pars 159: Malachiidae. In: JUNK W. & SCHENKLING S. (eds.): Coleopterorum Catalogus. Dr. W. Junk Verlag fur Naturwissenschaften, Gravenhage, 199 pp.
- PLATA NEGRACHE P. & SANTIAGO HERNANDEZ C. T. 1990: Revision de la familia Malachiidae Erichson (Insecta: Coleoptera) en la Peninsula Iberica e Islas Baleares. Goecke & Evers, Krefeld, 705 pp.