Cychrus semigranosus Palliardi, 1825

Hristovski, Slavčo & Guéorguiev, Borislav, 2015, Annotated catalogue of the carabid beetles of the Republic of Macedonia (Coleoptera: Carabidae), Zootaxa 4002 (1), pp. 1-190 : 37-38

Cychrus semigranosus Palliardi, 1825

Notes. We follow Mandl (1989) for the arrangement of the subspecies of Cychrus semigranosus . Thus, we treated jakupicensis , instead of morpha, as a distinct subspecies.

Cychrus semigranosus albanicus Hopp, 1929 [= peristericus Roubal, 1930 ]

References. Cychrus semigranosus: Apfelbeck 1907a: 35 (Ljuboten) ; Apfelbeck 1907b: 503 (Ljuboten); Hristovski et al. 1996: 53 (Šar Planina: Jelak). Cychrus balcanicus: Roubal 1932d: 145 (Pelister) . Cychrus attenuatus peristericus: Roubal 1930: 75 (Pelister loc. typ.); Drovenik & Peks 1994: 16 (Pelister); Drovenik & Peks 1999: 19. Cychrus semigranosus n. balcanicus: Mařan 1940b: 134 (Šar Planina) . Cychrus semigranosus n. semigranosus m. montanus: Mařan 1940b: 131 . C ychrus semigranosus albanicus : Mandl 1989: 65. Cychrus semigranosus peristericus: Drovenik & Peks 1994: 17 (Pelister) ; Drovenik & Peks 1999: 20. Cychrus attenuatus peristericus: Roubal 1932d: 145 (Pelister) ; Drovenik & Peks 1994: 17; Drovenik & Peks 1999: 20. Cychrus semigranosus graecus: Mitev et al. 2010: 44 (Kožuf, Kozjak, Nidže) . Cychrus semigranosus montenegrinus: Drovenik & Peks 1994: 17 ; Drovenik & Peks 1999: 20; Guéorguiev 1998: 40 (Šar Planina: Jelak); Hristovski et al. 2002: 122 (Šar Planina); Hristovski et al. 2003: 54 (Bistra); Häckel, 2003: 205; Guéorguiev 2007a: 306 (west Macedonia); Hristovski et al. 2010: 56 (Jablanica). Cychrus semigranosus albanicus: Häckel, 2003: 205 .

Material studied. “Pelister: Rotinska Reka, 1700m, 14.09.1952, T. Petkovski”, 3 s. ( MMNH); “Pelister Jugosl. 15 Mai 1972 Dr. Schurmann”, 1 s. ( NMW); “ Jugoslawien Mazedonien Perister, 1450 m leg. Kenyery VII.1972 ”, 17 s. ( NMW); “Galicica 10.6.1975 Makedonija ”, 1 s. ( NMW); “Yu Makedonija Pelister 1800 m 24.V.1982 Drovenik B. leg.”, 2 s. ( NMW); “Pelister: s. Nižepole, 1250m, 0 7.05.1991, V. Krpač”, 1 s. ( MMNH); “Rep. Makedonia prov. Skopje Mt. Skopska Crna Gora, 600 m ” / “Mon. Sv. Jovan. pitfall trap 8.VI.1998, leg. I. Rozner”, 1 s. ( HNHM). Distribution. 0 2, 0 5, 0 9, 32, 37, 40, 78.

Notes. The populations from the Baba (= Pelister) Mt., Southwestern Macedonia, occupy a transitional position between ssp. graecus and ssp. montenegrinus. Moreover, based on the size of body and the shape of pronotum those populations seem closer to ssp. graecus than the specimens from the var. olympicola Breuning, 1969 (a synonym of ssp. graecus ) are to the latter. So, the Greek populations from the Olympus Mt. may deserve subspecies status.