Dasytes (Mesodasytes) aeneiventris Küster, 1850

Liberti, Gianfranco, 2009, Improved Strategies for Branching on General Disjunctions, Zootaxa 2318, pp. 339-385 : 359-360

Dasytes (Mesodasytes) aeneiventris Küster, 1850

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Dasytes aeneiventris Küster, 1850 : nr. 6 (Loc. typ. Italia); Kiesenwetter 1863: 640 footnote; Rottenberg 1870: 243; Kiesenwetter 1871: 83; Baudi di Selve 1873a: 310; Schilsky 1894a: 231, 232; Schilsky 1895: nr. 15; Schilsky 1897b: nr. 34S; Sainte-Claire Deville 1908: 216; Porta 1929: 121; Pic 1937: 62; Fagniez 1946: 20, 26; Horion 1953: 133; Kaszab 1955b: 114; Angelini 1991: 198; Constantin 1991: 404, 405; Sparacio 1997: 106; * Liberti 2004a: 315.

= Dasytes roberti Abeille de Perrin, 1907 : xx ( Liberti 2004a: 315).

Material examined. Sassari prov.: * Isola Asinara, 1988 ( MCSNG); Monte Lerno, 1994 ( CMG); *Nulvi, 1974 ( CFR); *Osilo, 1974 ( CFR); *Ozieri, 1976 ( CPO); *Platamona Lido, 1974 ( CFR); Sassari , y-a ( MSNUF); *Stintino, 1874 ( CFR); *Torralba, 1974 ( MCSNV); *Tula, 1995 ( CAN). Olbia-Tempio prov.: Bassacutena, 1993 ( CME); Berchidda, 1991 ( CFO); *Cantoniera Pedredu, 1995 ( CAN); * Isola Caprera, 1993 ( CME, MSNUF); *Monte Limbara, 1995 ( CAN, CPA, MNHU); *Monti, 1991 ( CFO, CPO); *Olbia, y-? ( NMBA); *Padrogiano, 1995 ( CAN); *Telti, 1976 ( CPO); *Tempio Pausania, 1995 ( CAN, NMBA). Nuoro prov.: *Arcu Guddetorgiu, 1995 ( CAN); *Aritzo, 1994 ( CME); Badde Salighes, 2003 ( MCSNG); *Belvì, 1995 ( CAN, CME); *Bolotana, 1995 ( CAN); Bruncu Spina, 2004 ( CCR, CLI, CMO, CPN); Cantoniera di Sant’Anna, 2008 ( CNBFVR); *Cantoniera Ortuabis, 1994 ( CME); *Desulo, 1995 ( CAN); *Dorgali, 1991 ( CFR, CME); *Fonni, 1995 ( CLI, CME, MCSNG); *Gadoni, 1890 ( MNHU); *Galtellì, 1980 ( CFR); *Lago di Gusana, 1995 ( CAN); *Macomer, 1974 ( MCSNG, NMBA); *Mamoiada, 1976 ( CPO); Monte Albo, 1997 ( CME); *Monte Ortobene, 1985 ( CCL, MCSNG, MCSNM); Monte Spada, 2003 ( CLI); Monte d'Iscudu, 2003 ( CLI); *Monti del Gennargentu, 1890 ( MNHU); *Nuoro, 1980 ( MCSNG); *Oliena, 1995 ( CAN, MCSNG); *Oliena, San Giovanni, 1995 ( CAN); *Orgosolo, 1995 ( CAN); Ponte Guspene, 2008 ( CNBFVR); *Sorgono, 1912 ( MNHU); Stazione Ortuabis, 1995 ( CME). Oristano prov.: Abbasanta, 1993 ( CML); *Laconi, 1995 ( CAN, CME); *Oristano, 1985 ( MSNUF, NMBA); *Sedilo, 1995 ( CAN); *San Leonardo de Siete Fuentes, 1983 ( CLI). Ogliastra prov.:Monte Tonneri, 2008 ( CNBFVR); *Seui, 2001 ( CFA, NMBA). Medio Campidano prov.: *Arbus, 1995 ( CAN); *Cantoniera Bidderdi, 1995 ( CAN); *Giara di Gesturi, 1999 ( CAN, CME); *Gonnosfanadiga, 1983 ( CLI); Monte Anzeddu, 2006 ( CNBFVR); *Monte Linas, 1995 ( CME); *Villacidro, 1991 ( CME). Carbonia-Iglesias prov.: Domusnovas, 2006 ( CNBFVR); *Fluminimaggiore, 1995 ( CME); *Iglesias, 2006 ( CAN, CME, CNBFVR, MNHU); Monti Marganai, 2006 ( CNBFVR); sa Duchessa, 2006 ( CNBFVR); Villaperuccio, 2004 ( CCR). Cagliari prov.: *Cagliari, Monte Urpino, 1978 ( CME); *Cantoniera Campu Omu, 1998 ( CLI, CME); *Monte dei Sette Fratelli, 1995 ( CAN, CME, CMG); *Nurallao, 2001 ( CFA, CME); Nurri, 2008 ( CFA, CNBFVR); *Quirra, 1985 ( CLI); Selargius, 1992 ( CMG); Serri, 1998 ( CME); Seulo, 2008 ( CNBFVR); *Seuni, y-o ( MNHU); Solèminis, 1983 ( CFO).

Chorotype. A West-Mediterranean species also present, albeit rare, in Greece ( Liberti 2004a).

Notes. Reported for Sardinia by Bertolini (1899 –1904), Sainte-Claire Deville (1908) and Krausse (1913: 61), this species is easily recognizable by its entirely black colour (legs and antennae included), the shape of pronotum (slightly wider than long), and the evident sexual dimorphism (the other entirely black Dasytes living in Sardinia, D. coerulescens , is larger, has a strongly transverse pronotum and weaker sexual dimorphism). Very common in Sardinia.

Figures

FIGURES 12–19. Median lobe in lateral view. 12–15. Dasytes spp., scale bar: 0.5 mm. 12. Dasytes (Mesodasytes) iteratus Peyerimhoff (Sardinia, Nebida). 13. Dasytes (M.) croceipes Kiesenwetter (Sardinia, Lido del Sole). 14. Dasytes (M.) nigroaeneus Küster (Italy, Campania, Napoli province, Campagnano d’Ischia). 15. Dasytes (M.) aeneiventris Küster (Sardinia, Fonni). 16–19. Aplocnemus spp. from Sardinia, scale bar: 0.5 mm. 16. Aplocnemus (Aplocnemus) cribricollis Mulsant & Rey (Burcei). 17. Aplocnemus (A.) pectinatus (Küster) (Stagno di Colostrai). 18. Aplocnemus (Diplambe) januaventi Liberti (Bruncu Spina). 19. Aplocnemus (D.) duplicatus Kiesenwetter (Seui).