Sciaphobus (Sciaphobus) abbreviatus ( Desbrochers des Loges, 1871 )

Borovec, Roman & Skuhrovec, Jiří, 2015, A review of Sciaphobus (Neosciaphobus) and descriptions of new species of Sciaphobus s. str. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 55 (2), pp. 745-785 : 780-781

Sciaphobus (Sciaphobus) abbreviatus ( Desbrochers des Loges, 1871)

Polydrusus abbreviatus Desbrochers des Loges, 1871: 234 (original description); WINKLER (1932): 1465 (catalogue);

DALLA TORRE et al. (1937): 114 (catalogue). Sciaphobus abbreviatus : D’AMORE- FRACASSI (1906): 194 (noted); SOLARI (1950): 35 (noted); PESARINI (1980): 21 (noted); FRANCIA (1986): 54 (noted); ABBAZZI & OSELLA (1992): 314 (check-list); ABBAZZI et al. (1994): 28 (check-list). Sciaphobus (Sciaphobus) abbreviatus: BOROVEC (2013) : 385 (catalogue). Sciaphobus psittacinus K. Daniel, 1904: 85 (original description); D’AMORE- FRACASSI (1906): 194 (synonymy). Sciaphobus (Sciaphobus) psittacinus: WINKLER (1932) :1470 (catalogue, as valid species); DALLA TORRE et al. (1937):

161 (catalogue, as valid species).

Type localities. Polydrusus abbreviatus : ‘ Tyrol [= Tirol, but South Tirol in time of the description belongs to todayʼs Italy] ’; Sciaphobus psittacinus : ‘ Molise (Provinz Neapel)’.

Type material examined. Polydrusus abbreviatus : not studied. Sciaphobus psittacinus : HOLOTYPE: supposedly ♀ (5.06 mm long), ‘ Molise (Bertolini) [handwritten] / Provinz Neapel [handwritten] / psittacinus Daniel [handwritten] / Type von [red, printed] / Sciaphobus psittacinus [handwritten] / HOLOTYPUS Sciaphobus psittacinus K. Daniel,

1904, R. Borovec et J. Skuhrovec vid. 2014 [red, printed] / Sciaphobus abbreviatus Desbrochers, R. Borovec det. 2014 [printed]’ ( ZSMG).

Remarks. The type of P. abbreviatus is deposited in Desbrochers’s collection (MNHN) and was examined by PESARINI (1980), who confirmed the synonymy of S. psittacinus with P. abbreviatus . The synonymy was originally proposed by D’AMORE- FRACASSI (1906) but omitted by WINKLER (1932) and DALLA TORRE et al. (1937) and reintroduced by SOLARI (1950).

DANIEL (1904) described S. psittacinus based on a single specimen as he stated ‘das einzige Stück’ from ‘ Molise (Provinz Neapel), von Dr. Bertolini eingesandt’. The holotype is well preserved and clearly fits with all the material of Sciaphobus s. str. without erect setae known from Italy.