Attagenus (Attagenus) tigrinus pulcher Faldermann, 1835

Nardi, Gianluca & Hava, Jiri, 2013, Italian Dermestidae: notes on some species and an updated checklist (Coleoptera), ZooKeys 360, pp. 45-81 : 53-54

Attagenus (Attagenus) tigrinus pulcher Faldermann, 1835

Attagenus pulcher Fald.: Bargagli 1872: 102, Bertolini 1874: 99.

Attagenus tigrinus F. [= (Fabricius, 1792)] var. pulcher Falder.: Bertolini 1904: 58.

Material examined.

None.

Chorotype.

Mediterranean (cf. Háva and Nardi 2011); Attagenus (Attagenus) tigrinus pulcher is a Caucasian endemic ( Zhantiev 2009).

Italian distribution.

Sardinia ( Bargagli 1872, Bertolini 1874, 1904).

Remarks.

This subspecies is excluded here from the Italian fauna. Zhantiev (2009) recognized this taxon as a valid subspecies. This paper was overlooked by Háva and Nardi (2011), so these authors, according to Háva (2007), listed it as a synonym of Attagenus (Attagenus) bifasciatus (A.G. Olivier, 1790). Nevertheless, the status of this subspecies needs to be revised ( Háva, unpublished data).