Gastrallus laevigatus (Olivier, 1790), 1860

Zahradník, Petr & Demetriou, Jakovos, 2023, A review of the Ptinidae (Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea) of Cyprus, including new faunistic records and the description of a new species, Zootaxa 5306 (2), pp. 243-265 : 248

Gastrallus laevigatus (Olivier, 1790)

Baudi di Selve 1874: 333; Marseul 1886: 296; Logvinovskiy 1983: 96; Hagstrum & Subramanyam 2009: 91; Zahradník 2007a: 340; Zahradník 2007b: 173; Zahradník 2016b: 96.

Distribution. P: AG AU BE BH BU CR CY CZ FR GE GG GR HU IS IN IT JA LU MO NL PL PT RO SB SK SL SP ST SY SZ TR TU UK E: CD GH. Europe, northern Africa, Middle East, Japan Is. (Zahradník 2007a, b, 2016b; Hagstrum & Subramanyam 2009).

Notes. Schilsky described the species G. corsicus in the year 1898. This species is very similar to G. laevigatus and is widely distributed throughout the Mediterranean area, where it is completely dominant. It is probable that there may have been a misidentification, and that Baudi di Selve (1874) referred to this species. However, the presence of G. laevigatus in Cyprus cannot be ruled out. Data on the occurrence of G. laevigatus in the Afrotropical Region are almost certainly based on misidentifications. Zahradník (2008) described nine new species from this region and revised 15 other previously described species of this genus. They are all habitualy very similar and can be reliably identified only by the shape of aedeagus. The species G. laevigatus was not detected in this region.