Anthicus pinicola Reitter, 1889: 258.

Microhoria pinicola: TELNOV (1998): 170 (record Greece); CHANDLER et al. (2008): 442 (catalogue, distribution).

Microhoria feroni Bonadona, 1960: 51, Figs 1, 3, 5, syn. nov.

Type locality. Anthicus pinicola – Greece, Attica; Microhoria feroni – Greece, Euboea Island, Rovies.

Type material. Anthicus pinicola – LECTOTYPE (herewith designated):, ‘ Attica Reitter [p] // Graecia [h] // Paratypus 1889. Anthicus pinicola Reitter [p+h; red frame] // Coll. Reitter [p]’ (HNHM). PARALECTOTYPE: 1 ♀, same data, except ‘Holotypus’ in the 3rd label (HNHM).

Microhoria feroni – PARATYPE:, ‘Ile d’Eubée a Roviès (Sporades) 10.VII.1956. [h] II Paratype [h; red label] // Microhoria (Platyhoria) feroni n sp. P. BONADONA det. [p+h]’ (coll. Bonadona, MNHN).

Additional material. GREECE: CENTRAL GREECE: 3, Euboea, Pili, 105 m, 16.vi.–25.ix.2014, A. Sette lgt. (ADBC); 4, Euboea, Pili, 100 m, 20.vi.2016, A. Sette lgt. (ADBC). CENTRAL MACEDONIA: 1 ♀, Mount Menikio, 12.viii.2010, J. Halada lgt. (ADBC). EPIRUS: 1, Parga, 13.vi.2008, K. Orszulik lgt. (ZKDC). IONIAN ISLANDS: 20, Corfu, Pelekito, 21.vi.2010, M. Pavesi lgt. (ADBC). PELOPONNESE: 4,Arcadia, Tyros, Paralia, 15.vii.1987, R. Schuh lgt. (ZKDC); 4

1 ♀, Corinthia, Gerania Region, NW of Perachora, 38°03′N 22°55′E, 200 m, 16.vii.1990, M. & R. Rausch lgt. (ZKDC); 3, Laconia, 1.4 km NW of Grammousa, 10.vi.2016, B. Zbuzek lgt. (ZKDC). THESSALY: 1, Trikala, Pili, 20.vi.2008, A. Fancello lgt. (ADBC). WEST GREECE: 2, Etolia-Akarnania, Astakos, 22.vi.–6.vii.2001, A. Sette lgt. (ADBC).

Distribution. Greece.

Remarks. REITTER (1889) described Anthicus pinicola from an unstated number of specimens collected by H. von Oertzen in Greece at three localities: Aegina, Attica, and Morea. The lectotype is designated herein for a male syntype from Attica (its paratype label is surely not original but added by curators). BONADONA (1960) described Microhoria feroni from two specimens originating from Euboea Island in Greece. Both species are conspicuous in having a unicolorous reddish body, and the male type specimens have identical aedeagi, including the rather characteristic small lobule on the outer side of the narrowed, straightly projecting apical portion of the tegmen, and the endophallus with an apical tuft of simple, delicate spinules. Consequently, Microhoria feroni is proposed as a junior synonym of Anthicus pinicola.

The specimens collected by M. Pavesi at the locality Pelekito were captured by using traps with paper towels soaked with alcohol containing the exudates from freshly caught specimens of Meloe Linnaeus, 1759 (Degiovanni, pers. comm.); the specimens collected by A. Sette in Central and Western Greece Regions were trapped in cups holding wine vinegar (Degiovanni, pers. comm.).