Orthomus berytensis, Reiche & Saulcy, 1855: 618

Guéorguiev, Borislav & Wrase, David W., 2016, On the identity of Orthomus hespericus Motschulsky, 1849 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini), Ecologica Montenegrina 5, pp. 28-34 : 32

7. berytensis Reiche & Saulcy, 1855: 618 ( Feronia)

= proelongus Reiche & Saulcy, 1855 : 619 ( Feronia ) = elongatus Chaudoir, 1859: 116 ( Feronia)

=? rectangulus Fairmaire, 1859 : li ( Feronia )

= haligena Wollaston, 1860: 87 ( Pterostichus)

=? varinii Gautier des Cottes, 1866: 178 ( Feronia) = atlanticus Fairmaire, 1875: 543 ( Feronia)

= oceanicus Mateu, 1951: 283 [unav.]

= muluyensis Antoine, 1957: 205

Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus Syria, Lebanon, Israel Canary Islands, Morocco Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt

Note 3: About the possible position of F. rectangulus see the notes in the text.

Note 4: Feronia varinii described from Sardinia, is most probably a synonym of O. berytensis rather than of O. barbarus .