TY - JOUR T1 - Lectotype designation and redescription of Bathysciola destefanii (Ragusa, 1881) (Coleoptera, Cholevidae) from Sicily (Italy) JF - Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona Y1 - 2012 A1 - LATELLA, L SP - 67 EP - 72 KW - Bathysciola KW - Cholevidae KW - Italy KW - lectotype KW - Leptodirinae KW - paralectotypes KW - Sicily. KW - taxonomy AB -

Bathysciola destefanii (Ragusa, 1881) was originally described as Adelops destefanii on the basis of four females collected by Enrico Ragusa in Navurra, near Altavilla (Palermo Province). Only a sketch of the habitus and left antenna were reported in the original description; later on R. Jeannel in his “Revision des Bathysciinae” gave a short description of the species and provided the drawing of the internal sac of the aedeagus; in the “Monographie des Bathysciinae”, the same Author reported the drawing of the apex of the paramer. In this paper Bathysciola destefanii is redescribed based on the four typical specimens and new specimens collected in other localities in Western Sicily. Pictures of the diagnostic features are provided and the lectotype and paralectotypes are designated.

VL - 36 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Catops cavicis n. sp. from the Krubera-Voronya cave (Abkhazia, Caucasus), an interesting species of the C. alpinus group (sensu Perreau, 2000) (Coleptera, Cholevidae) JF - Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa (S.E.A.) Y1 - 2011 A1 - Giachino, PM SP - 87‒89 KW - Caucasus KW - cave KW - Cholevidae KW - Coleoptera KW - distribution KW - new species KW - taxonomy KW - zoogeography AB - Abstract: Catops cavicis n. sp. from the Krubera-Voronya cave (Orto Balagán, Arabika Mts, Abkhazia Rep., Caucasus) is described. This new species, belonging to the group of C. alpinus (sensu Perreau, 2000), is closely related to C. cavazzutii Giachino, 1988, of the eastern Pontic Alps, and constitutes its northern vicariant. The author provides ecological and chorological data on the new species and discusses the zoogeographic hypotheses on the origin of the phenomena of differentiation in the south-western species of this group. VL - 49 ER -