Onthophilus punctatus punctatus (O.F. Müller)

Penati, Fabio, 2009, An updated catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia, with faunistic, zoogeographical, ecological and conservation remarks *, Zootaxa 2318, pp. 197-280 : 254

Onthophilus punctatus punctatus (O.F. Müller)

Onthophilus sulcatus Fabr. : Bargagli 1871: 42; Bertolini 1872 –1878: 85, 1904: 49; Porta 1926: 381

Literature data. “All of Italy ” ( Porta 1926). “ Sardinia ” ( Bargagli 1871; Bertolini 1872 –1878, 1904; Yélamos & Lackner 2004).

Notes. Apart from the highly generic above citations, the presence of this species in Sardinia is documented neither in the literature nor in any of the examined collections. All works subsequent to Luigioni (1929) have (cf. Tab. 1), correctly in my opinion, excluded it from the Sardinian fauna; the only exception is the record by Yélamos and Lackner (2004), the source of which is unknown.