Omalium funebre Fauvel, 1871

Shavrin, Alexey V., 2025, On some western Palaearctic species of the genus Omalium Gravenhorst, 1802 (Coleoptera: Omaliinae: Omaliini), Zootaxa 5729 (1), pp. 188-200 : 198

Omalium funebre Fauvel, 1871

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Omalium funebre Fauvel, 1871: 99 .

Omalium deubeli Bernhauer, 1915: 263 , syn. nov.

Type material examined. Lectotype ( here designated) of Omalium deubeli Bernhauer, 1915 ♀ ( Fig. 4 ): ROMANIA: ‘Bucsecs | Deubel’ <printed>, ‘alpin’ <printed>, ‘Deubeli Brh | Typus’ <handwritten in black>, ‘Chicago NHMus | M.Bernhauer | Collection’ <printed>, ‘ SYNTYPE | test D.J. Clarke2014 | GDI Imaging Project’ <violet, printed>, ‘PHOTOGRAPHED | Kelsey Keaton 2014 | Emu Catalog’ <blue, printed>, ‘FMNHINS | 2819642 | FIELD MUSEUM’ <printed, with barcode on the left side of the label>, ‘ Omalium | funebre Fauvel, 1871 | Shavrin A.V. det. 2025’ <printed> ( FMNH).

The photographs of the habitus and type labels of the holotype are available in Arthropod Collections Database of FMNH (last access: 28.10.2025).

Additional material examined. ITALY: 2 ♀♀: ‘ Mte. Viso. 13.04.06. Pinker’ ( NMW) ; AUSTRIA: 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀: ‘ Umg. Innsbruck, Ti. Pechkaner’. ‘ Alpein [ Alpeinralm, the end of the Oberberg Valley in the upper of Stubai] 2100 m Heu [hay], 8.10.[19]33’ ( NMW) ; 1 ♂: ‘ Steiermark Stuhleck’ ( FMNH) ; 1 ♀: ‘ Stuhleck Spaeth’ ( FMNH) ; 1 ♀: ‘ Hohe Tauern Nassfeld Bernhauer’, ‘ Quelmoos Juni. 1500 m’ ( FMNH) ; ROMANIA: 1 ♂: ‘ Ganglb [auer].`99 Negoi, Tr [ansylvania].’ ( NMW) ; MOLDAVIA: 3 ♂♂: Calfa. 06.1983. A.G. Koval leg. ( ZIN) .

Remarks. Omalium deubeli was originally described from “Bucsecs” (Bucegi Mountains, Romania) based on two specimens. The studied type specimen ( Fig. 4 ) from FMNH was designated as the lectotype in order to fix the identity of the name. Based on the external morphology, this specimen is conspecific with European O. funebre . Thus, it was synonymized with the latter species. Omalium funebre is known from several countries of Middle and South Europe ( Schülke & Smetana 2015). It is here recorded from Moldavia for the first time.

Figures

FIGURES 1–4. Habitus of Omalium. 1. O. muensteri (paralectotype). 2. O. asturicum (lectotype). 3. O. vaulogeri (holotype). 4. O. deubeli (lectotype). Scale bar: 1.0 mm.