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Deltomerus sterbai Rambousek 1909

Description

Deltomerus sterbai (Rambousek, 1909)

References. Penetretus Štěrbai Rambousek 1909: 114 –116 (Pelister loc. typ.). Penetretus sterbai: Bureš 1932: 25; Trautner & Geigenmüller, 1987: 225. Deltomerus sterbai: Drovenik & Peks 1994: 57 (Pelister); Drovenik & Peks 1999: 68; Zamotailov 2003: 283; Guéorguiev 2007a: 308 (west Macedonia); Arndt et al. 2011: 37. Deltomerus sterbae (sic!): Guéorguiev & Guéorguiev 1995: 118; Guéorguiev et al. 1997: 15.

Material studied. “Monastir Alpin peristeri Werner”, 3 f. (HNHM, MNHUB, NMW); “Maced. Pelister alpin. VII.-14 Dr. Rambousek”, 25 s., some of them incorrectly designated as paratypes or syntypes (DEI, HNHM, MNHUB, NMW); “Serb. Perister-Geb. 1000–2300 m VII.1914 J. Matcha”, 4 s. (HNHM; MNHUB); “Pelister, 0 5.06.1990, V. Krpač”, 2 s. (MMNH).

Distribution. 40.

Notes. Deltomerus sterbai is a local endemic species confined only to the Pelister Mt. The data for its presence in Bulgaria (Guéorguiev & Guéorguiev 1995: 118; Guéorguiev et al. 1997: 15; Zamotailov 2003: 283) refer to Patrobus atrorufus (Guéorguiev & Muilwijk 2001).

It seems that some specimens of this species have incorrectly been designated as syntypes or paratypes in DEI, HNHM, and MNHUB. But, they do not come from the type series since D. sterbai was described after two males only. Recently, Viñolas & Masó (2014: 50) indicated that the holotype is kept in DEI, and the paratype is preserved in the Natural History Museum of Barcelona. However, one of us (BG) has visited DEI and found eight specimens of D. sterbai there, three of them designated as syntypes (see also Döbler, 1975: 142). Therefore, the exact place of preservation of the type material of D. sterbai remains an open question.

Notes

Published as part of Hristovski, Slavčo & Guéorguiev, Borislav, 2015, Annotated catalogue of the carabid beetles of the Republic of Macedonia (Coleoptera: Carabidae), pp. 1-190 in Zootaxa 4002 (1) on page 66, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4002.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/238945

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Carabidae
Genus
Deltomerus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Rambousek
Species
sterbai
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Deltomerus sterbai Rambousek, 1909 sec. Hristovski & Guéorguiev, 2015

References

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  • Bures, J. (1932) Entomologicka cinnost D-ra Frantiska G. Rambouska v Bulharsku a v Macedonii. Sbornik entomologickeho oddeleni Narodniho musea v Praze, 10 (74), 21 - 27.
  • Trautner, J. & Geigenmuller, K. (1987) Illustrated key to the Cicindelidae and Carabidae of Europe. Josef Margraf Publisher, Gaimersheim, 487 pp.
  • Drovenik, B. & Peks, H. (1994) Catalogus faunae Carabiden der Balkanlander. Schwanfelder Coleopterologische Mitteilungen, Sonderheft I, 1 - 103. [Schwanfeld, Germany]
  • Drovenik, B. & Peks, H. (1999) Catalogus faunae Carabiden der Balkanlander (Coleoptera, Carabidae). Schwanfelder Coleopterologische Mitteilungen, Sonderheft I (Schwanfeld), 2 Auflage, 1 - 123. [Schwanfeld, Germany]
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  • Gueorguiev, B. (2007 a) Biogeography of the endemic Carabidae (Coleoptera) in the Central and Eastern Balkan Peninsula. In: Fet, V. & Popov, A. (Eds.), Biogeography and ecology of Bulgaria. Springer, Berlin, pp. 297 - 356.
  • Gueorguiev, V. B. & Gueorguiev, B. V. (1995) Catalogue of the ground beetles of Bulgaria. Pensoft publishers, Sofia-Moscow, 279 pp.
  • Gueorguiev, B. & Muilwijk, J. (2001) Contribution to the Bulgarian ground-beetles fauna (Coleoptera: Carabidae). II. Historia Naturalis Bulgarica, 13, 111 - 122.
  • Vinolas, A. & Мaso, G. (2014) The collection of type specimens of the family Carabidae (Coleoptera) deposited in the Natural History Museum of Barcelona, Spain. Arxius de Miscellania Zooloogica, 12, 13 - 83.
  • Dobler, H. (1975) Katalog der in den Sammlungen des ehemaligen Deutschen Entomologischen Institutes aufbewahrten Typen - XII (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Beitrage zur Entomologie, 25 (1), 99 - 150.