Globicornis (Globicornis) breviclavis (Reitter, 1878)

Nardi, Gianluca & Hava, Jiri, 2013, Italian Dermestidae: notes on some species and an updated checklist (Coleoptera), ZooKeys 360, pp. 45-81 : 58

Globicornis (Globicornis) breviclavis (Reitter, 1878)

Hadrotoma breviclavis Reitter: Baudi 1890: 101.

Hadrotoma breviclavis Reitt.: Bertolini 1904: 59.

Globicornis (Globicornis) breviclavis Reitt.: Ganglbauer 1904: 31; Reitter 1906: 379; Dalla Torre 1911: 63; Winkler 1926: 679; Luigioni 1929: 539; Porta 1929: 304.

Globicornis (Globicornis) breviclavis (Reitter, 1878): Audisio et al. 1995: 13, 16.

Material examined.

None.

Chorotype.

Endemic to the Near East: Armenia, Bulgaria, “Caucasus”, Georgia, European Turkey, Ukraine, and Southern European Russia (Adygeya, Krasnodar kraj) ( Háva 2007, Háva and Legalov 2010, Zhantiev 2011a).

Italian distribution.

Piedmont: Graian and Pennine Alps ( Baudi 1890, Luigioni 1929, Porta 1929); Piedmont (without further details) ( Bertolini 1904, Reitter 1906); Piedmont? ( Dalla Torre 1911, Winkler 1926, Audisio et al. 1995). Liguria: Ligurian Apennines ( Luigioni 1929); Liguria? ( Audisio et al. 1995).

Remarks.

This species described from Caucasus ( Reitter 1878, as Hadrotoma breviclavis ) is excluded here from the Italian fauna. Ganglbauer (1904) listed the paper by Baudi (1890), while Dalla Torre (1911) referred to Ganglbauer (1904). The Italian records were ignored by Mroczkowski (1968: 114), who recorded this species only from the Caucasus. No specimens of this species are present in the P. Luigioni collection (MCZR) (A. Zilli, pers. comm. 2013). The above Italian records probably concern the similar Globicornis (Globicornis) luckowi Herrmann, Háva & Kadej, 2011 which is known only from southern Switzerland, Piedmont and Liguria ( Herrmann et al. 2011, Háva et al. 2013). Nevertheless, as discussed for Attagenus (Attagenus) simonis , an escatomediterranean distributional pattern ( Zilli 2000) could explain the occurrence of Globicornis (Globicornis) breviclavis in Italy.