Catomus lepidus Reitter, 1922: 10 Darkling beetles of the tribe Helopini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Jordan Nabozhenko, M. V. Tichý, V. Far Eastern Entomologist 2019 2019-06-10 384 1 9 Allard 1876 [227,325,571,595] Insecta Tenebrionidae Catomus GBIF Animalia Coleoptera 2 3 Arthropoda genus   Isopedes berytensis Kraatz, 1880: 299 ( typelocality: Beirut); synonymized by Seidlitz (1896).    Catomus lepidus Reitter, 1922: 10( typelocality: Syria), syn. n.   TYPE MATERIAL. Types of  Helopshesperideswere not found and probably lost. Two specimens from  MNHNwith labels “ Syntypes” “  Catomushesperides   Beyrouth” are not typesbecause Reiche described this species as  HelopsFabricius, 1775 and his handwritten labels are absent. Typelocality: “Berytam Syriae et  Mersinam Caramaniae” ( Beirut and Mersin) (Reiche, 1861). Holotypeof Isopedes berytensis( DEI), female, with labels: “ Beirut( Zach)”, “ Krtztyp.”, “ berytensis  Kraatz, 1880”, “ DEIMüncheberg Col-02802”. Holotypeof  Catomus lepidus ( NMB), female, with labels: “ Aleppo Syrien” (press), “Staud.”, “  lepidus”, “Reitt. det.”, “ TYPUS” (press, pink). DISRIBUTION. Turkey(Taurus and Amanos mountains) (Reiche, 1861), Western Syria(Reiche, 1861; Allard, 1876, 1877; Seidlitz, 1896; Reitter, 1922), Lebanon,  Israel(Seidlitz, 1896), Jordan(Nabozhenko & Löbl, 2008).  NOTES.  Catomus lepidushas weakly sinuated lateral margins of pronotum and wrinkled (without punctures) prohypomera. These combination of female characters can be found within many populations of  Catomushesperidesfrom Amanos Mountains and Northern Syria. Punctation of pronotum also can be variable even in one population, females often have sparser punctation, than males. So, differential characters used by Reitter (1922) for  C. lepidusis only case of variability of widespread C. hesperides. As a result a new synonymy is proposed:   Catomus(s. str.) hesperides(Reiche, 1861) =  Catomus lepidusReitter, 1922,  syn. n. [448,1028,611,633] Turkey Beirut 2 3 1 Mersin [458,1095,638,660] Seidlitz 2 3 1 Beyrouth [431,593,694,716] Syria Syria 2 3 1 [533,1126,783,808] MNHN 2 3 1 syntype [227,1122,814,839] Beyrouth 2 3 1 Beyrouth DEI Krtz Zach 2 3 1 Beirut and Mersin holotype [227,1126,937,961] DEI 2 3 1 holotype [322,1124,967,992] Syria Aleppo 2 3 1 Halab