Harpalus (Ophonus) diffinis Dejean 1829
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Harpalus (Ophonus) diffinis Dejean, 1829: 196.
The specimen here designated as lectotype is a male bearing the labels: “ diffinis m. in Gallia merid.”, “ex-Museo Chaudoir”, “ R. P. Pantel ”, “ Ophonus diffinis Dej. G. Colas det.” and “ Lectotype of Harpalus (Ophonus) diffinis Dejean, 1829 design. by J. Serrano ”.
The selected specimen hereby designated as lectotype matches the data of the original description, and its diagnostic characters were highlighted by Sciaky (1987), clearly showing the differences with its relative Ophonus (Ophonus) ardosiacus (Lutshnik, 1922). Other keys to identify the species are found in Wrase (2004, 2011). The species is currently included in the nominal subgenus, that is characterized by taxa of large body size and rounded posterior angles of pronotum, metallic dorsum, aedeagus with ligula, etc.
It is distributed in Central and Mediterranean Europe and the Levant (Kataev & Wrase, 2017c).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- R
- Scientific name authorship
- Dejean
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Carabidae
- Genus
- Harpalus
- Species
- diffinis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- lectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Harpalus (Ophonus) diffinis Dejean, 1829 sec. Serrano, 2022
References
- Dejean, P. F. M. A. (1829) Species general des coleopteres de la collection de M. le Comte Dejean. Tome quatrieme. Mequignon- Marvis, Paris, vii + 520 pp.
- Sciaky, R. (1987) Revisione delle specie paleartiche occidentali del genere Ophonus Dejean, 1821. Memoria della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 65, 29 - 120.
- Wrase, D. W. (2004) Harpalina. In: Freude, H., Harde, K. W., Lohse, G. A. & Klausnitzer, B. (Eds.), Die Kafer Mitteleuropas. Bd. 2 Adephaga 1: Carabidae (Laufkafer). Spektrum-Verlag, Heidelberg / Berlin, pp. 344 - 386.
- Wrase, D. W. (2011) Genus Tschitscherinellus. Arndt, E., Schnitter, P., Sfenthourakis, S. & Wrase, D. W. (Eds.), Ground beetles (Carabidae) of Greece. Pensoft, Sofia, pp. 163.
- Kataev, B. M. & Wrase, D. W. (2017 c) Subtribe Harpalina Bonelli, 1810. In: Lobl, I. & Lobl, D. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 1. Revised and Updated Edition. Brill, Leiden, pp. 515 - 562.