Dermestes (Montandonia) olivieri Lepesme, 1939

Nardi, Gianluca & Hava, Jiri, 2013, Italian Dermestidae: notes on some species and an updated checklist (Coleoptera), ZooKeys 360, pp. 45-81 : 49-50

Dermestes (Montandonia) olivieri Lepesme, 1939

Dermestes ater Oliv. [= Olivier, 1790]: Ghiliani 1842: 33; Ghiliani 1847: 93; Reiche 1860: 720; Ghiliani 1887: 310; Bertolini 1890: 196; Iehl 1909: 26; Luigioni 1929: 537; Porta 1929: 301; Gridelli 1949: 176; Horion 1955: 197; Faggioli 1956: 174; Gulli 1961: 4.

Dermestes ater Ol.: Villa and Villa 1844: 38 [444]; Rottenberg 1870: 238; Steck 1887: 181; Ragusa 1892: 203; Bertolini 1904: 58; Vitale 1904: 75; Holdhaus 1911: 445; Panganetti-Hummler 1918: 87; Zangheri 1969: 1334.

Dermestes ater Olivier: Giachino 1982: 361.

Dermestes olivieri Lep.: Angelini 1986: 74; Angelini and Montemurro 1986: 573; Angelini 1987: 38; Angelini 1991: 206.

Dermestes (Dermestes) olivieri Lepesme, 1939: Audisio et al. 1995: 12; Bordoni et al. 2006: 60; FEI 2011.

Dermestes ater Degeer, 1774 [sic!]: Sapuppo 2002: 189.

Dermestes (Montandonia) olivieri Lepesme, 1939: Háva and Nardi 2011: 416.

Material examined.

Apulia: Foggia prov., [GNP,] Mattinata, strada per M.te Sacro [= road to Mount Sacro], Masseria Vaira dint., 613 m, 33T 584160 4821825, 24.V.2010, I. Toni leg., sn on Ferula communis [( Apiaceae )], Prog. Foresta Umbra, 1 ex (CNBFVR); Taranto prov., Ginosa Marina, VIII.1985, P. Abbazzi leg., 2 ex (MZUF). Tuscany: Arezzo [prov.], Cavriglia, [Fraz.] Montegonzi, 16.V.1991, Lisa leg., 1 ex (MZUF); [Arezzo prov.,] Ris. Nat. [= Riserva Naturale = Nature Reserve] "Valle Inferno-Bandella", Casa Giardino, 8.V.1998, L. Bartolozzi, B. Cecchi A. & Sforzi leg., 1 ex (MZUF); [Firenze prov.,] Firenze [= Florence], V.1896, ex-coll. Beccari, 1 ex (MZUF); Firenze prov., Greve [in Chianti], [Fraz.] Strada in Chianti, 20.I.1957, A. Bandinelli leg., 1 ex (MZUF); [Grosseto prov.], Parco Naturale della [= Natural Park of] Maremma, Mti [= Monti = Mounts] dell’Uccellina, S. Rabano, X.1988, L. Bartolozzi leg., 4 ex (MZUF).

Chorotype.

Turano-European with extension to Tunisia (cf. Háva 2007, Háva and Herrmann 2009, 2011, Háva et al. 2011, Háva and Nardi 2011).

Italian distribution.

All of Italy, Sicily and Sardinia (cf. Bertolini 1904, Luigioni 1929, Horion 1955, Audisio et al. 1995, Háva and Nardi 2011). These generic distributional data are most likely correct; nevertheless, precise records are known only from the following regions: Trentino ( Bertolini 1890), Lombardy ( Villa and Villa 1844, Giachino 1982), Piedmont ( Ghiliani 1847, 1887), Aosta Valley ( Iehl 1909), Romagna ( Zangheri 1969), Tuscany ( Bordoni et al. 2006), Latium ( Horion 1955, FEI 2011), Abruzzi ( Horion 1955), Apulia ( Holdhaus 1911, Panganetti-Hummler 1918, Gridelli 1949, Horion 1955, Faggioli 1956, Angelini 1987), Basilicata ( Angelini 1986, Angelini and Montemurro 1986), Calabria ( Angelini 1991), Sicily ( Ghiliani 1842, Rottenberg 1870, Steck 1887, Ragusa 1892, Vitale 1904, Luigioni 1929, Horion 1955, Audisio et al. 1995), and Sardinia (cf. Háva and Nardi 2011).

Remarks.

New collecting sites from Tuscany and Apulia. In Tuscany, the species was formally recorded from a sole locality ( Bordoni et al. 2006); it is also for the first time recorded here from a nature reserve, of which the beetle-fauna is well known (cf. Zinetti and Terzani 2009). The species was already known from Apulia, from various localities, including the Gargano National Park (see the references above).

Sapuppo (2002) recorded Dermestes ater DeGeer, 1774 from two Sicilian localities based on specimens collected by A. Gulli and identified by A. Porta. The data from a locality are exactly the same as those of " Dermestes ater Oliv." provided by Gulli (1961), and thus, both sites are attributed here to Dermestes (Montandonia) olivieri ; the homonymy ( Dermestes ater DeGeer and Dermestes ater Oliver) was very probably the cause of the error of Sapuppo (2002). Dermestes (Dermestes) ater DeGeer is a cosmopolitan species, but in Italy it is known from some northern regions only ( Luigioni 1929: 537, as Dermestes (Dermestes) cadaverinus Fabr. [= Fabricius, 1775], Minelli and Negrisolo 1993: 92, as Dermestes ater Degeer, Audisio et al. 1995: 12, as Dermestes (Dermestes) ater Degeer).