Lathrobium pallidum NORDMANN 1837

Assing, V., 2008, On the taxonomy and zoogeography of some Palaearctic Paederinae and Xantholinini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (2), pp. 1237-1294 : 1270

Lathrobium pallidum NORDMANN 1837

Lathrobium krniense JOSEPH 1868: 365 f.; nov.syn.

C o m m e n t: The original description of this nomen dubium is based on two syntypes from Krn mountain, Juliske Alpy, Slovenia. Lathrobium krniense is the sole and type species of the subgenus Centrocnemiella STRAND 1934, a replacement name for the preoccupied homonym Centrocnemis JOSEPH 1868. According to HORN et al. (1990), the Joseph collection was separated and the whereabouts of large parts of this collection are unknown. Enquiries directed to various major European natural history museums yielded no clues whatsoever as to whether the type material of L. krniense still exists or where it may be found.

According to JOSEPH (1868), the holotype is winged, so that it can be safely assumed that it does not represent an endemic species of the Juliske Alpy. If L. krniense is a species of Lathrobium , the details provided in the original description best fit a macropterous L. pallidum , a widespread dimorphic species with which the type material of L. krniense is hypothesised to be conspecific.

Thus the following synonymies result: Lathrobium GRAVENHORST 1802 = Centrocnemis Joseph 1868, = Centrocnemiella STRAND 1934, nov.syn.; Lathrobium pallidum NORDMANN 1837 = Lathrobium krniense JOSEPH 1868 , nov.syn.