Chasmatopterus zonatus Escalera, 1925

Ziani, Stefano, Bezděk, Aleš, Branco, Tristão, Hillert, Oliver, Jákl, Stanislav, Král, David, Mantič, Marion, Rössner, Eckehard & Sehnal, Richard, 2015, New country records of Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) from the Palaearctic Region, Insecta Mundi 2015 (409), pp. 1-36 : 19

Chasmatopterus zonatus Escalera, 1925

Material examined: SPAIN: Spain mer., Andalucia, Porto de las Atalayas, 6 km NE of Ardales, 36°54’36’’N 04 °48’34’’ W, lesostep – na květech [= forest-steppe, on flowers], 13.v.2010, M. Mantič leg. (2 ♂♂ and 2 ♀♀ in TBCP, 1 ♂ and 1 ♀ in IECA, 4 spec. in MMCH).

Distribution. Escalera (1925) described Ch. zonatus from “ Ceuta en el Hacho”. Baraud (1965) examined Escalera’s material and stated: “Il faut pourtant reconnaître que personne ne semble avoir repris Ch. zonatus depuis Escalera” [= It should be noted, that nobody seems to have collected Ch. zonatus since Escalera]. Some years later, Decelle (1972) reported collecting eight specimens at Smir-Restinga, between Ceuta and Tetuan. Baraud and Branco (1991a) designated as lectotype the only male in Escalera’s material (the other 11 specimens are females), but they did not add any new record. Chasmatopterus zonatus can be separated from all other known species of the genus with the key provided by Branco (2004).

The above mentioned recently collected specimens from the province of Málaga represent the first record of Ch. zonatus for Iberian Spain. One of us (TB) compared these specimens to those from Monte Hacho, Ceuta, that he had previously compared to the lectotype of Ch. zonatus , and confirmed their identity beyond any doubt.

Responsible authors: T. Branco, A. Bezděk and M. Mantič