Longitarsus lateripunctatus var. personatus Weise, 1893: 964

Farina, Laura, 2021, Notes on Longitarsus aphthonoides Weise 1887 and on the species groups of L. lateripunctatus (Rosenhauer 1856) and L. curtus (Allard 1860) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), Natural History Sciences 8 (2), pp. 11-34 : 17

Longitarsus lateripunctatus var. personatus Weise, 1893: 964 .

Kolbe, 1920: 402-403, 404 [mut. personata]; Heikertinger, 1930: 1328; Porta, 1934: 357; Normand, 1937: 133; Csiki & Heikertinger, 1940: pars 166, 134; Mohr, 1962: 62 (Figs. 32a, 32b), 63 (Fig. 32c), 98; Mohr, 1966: 228; Warchalowski, 1978: 49, 50 (Figs. 243-245); Furth, 1980: 101; Gruev & Tomov, 1986: 221-222 (Fig. 244); Gruev, 1987: 58 (Fig. 21) [the author, in the text, wrote about lateripunctatus but in Fig. 21 represented a spermatheca of personatus ]; Warchalowski, 2003: 413 (forma personatus ).

= Longitarsus lateripunctatus ssp. personatus Weise sensu Doguet, 1989: 172 . Loc. typ.: Austria: Wien (as in Gruev & Döberl, 1997:182).

Heikertinger, 1912: 194 [“Unterart personatus . In Deutschland nicht gef. Die Normalform lateripunctatus (biguttatus Foudras) nur in Mittelmeergebiete”]; Müller, 1949 -1953: 524, 536; Kaszab, 1962: 311 (Fig. 132 I-J), 314; Gruev, 1979: 131; Biondi, 1990a: 142-143; Biondi, 1990c: 346; Gruev et al., 1993: 102; Döberl, 1994: 107, 135 (Figs. 266-268); Doguet, 1994: 220-221, 260 (Fig. 105bis b), 297 (Fig. 122g); Lucht, 1994: 319; Döberl, 1995b: 55-56; Warchalowski, 1995a: 144 (Fig. 384), 146 (Figs. 400-401), 254-256 (Figs. 954, 956); Warchalowski, 1996: 36 (Fig. 19, L. lateripunctatus ), 38 (Figs. 35, 36, L. lateripunctatus ), 137-138, 141 (Fig. 589), 142 (Fig. 591); Vig, 1996: 125; Rozner, 1996: 256; Strejcek, 1996: 572; Gruev & Tomov, 1998: 93; Gruev & Döberl, 1997:182; Herger & Kamke, 1998: 123 [“neu für Kanton Schaffhausen und NordSchweiz”]; Callot, 1999: 43; Gruev, 2002: 27; Vig, 2002: 122; Brelih et al., 2003: 114; Geiser, 2004: 19; Gruev & Döberl, 2005: 90; Čižek, 2006: 32 (Fig. 102)- 33; Warchalowski, 2010: 864 (Figs. 4289-4290), 865 (Fig. 4292); Baviera & Biondi, 2015: 19; Fritzlar, 2017: 80.

= Longitarsus lateripunctatus ( Rosenhauer 1856)

Furth, 1980: 101 [partim?]

The comparative study of a wide sample (MSNM, MSNG, MHNB, HNHM and private collections) permitted to come to the conclusion that L. personatus is neither just a wingless form of L. lateripunctatus , as Weise supposed (1893: 964) and as Warchalowski (1978: 49-50) and Gruev & Tomov (1986: 221-222) confirmed, nor a subspecies, as put forward by Heikertinger (1912: 194), Müller (1949 -1953: 524, 536), Kaszab (1962: 311, 314), Doguet (1989: 172) and Warchalowski (1996: 137), but a valid species. This taxonomic proposal is based on the significant morphological differences between the two species and considers the partial overlap of their ranges ( Fig. 31 ).

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Fig.31 – European and Mediterranean distributionofL.lateripunctatus andL.personatus. / Distribuzioneeuropea e meditterraneadi L.lateripunctatus e L. personatus. Blank map modified from / Cartina modificata da: https://d-maps.com/ carte.php?num_car=3127&lang=it