Hesperocorixa sp.

Corixa parallela Fieber: De Carlini (1901: 78); Sangiorgi (1903: 92). Misidentification (suspected).

Published material. “Liscuri (m. 100)” (De Carlini 1901), “Lixuri” (Sangiorgi 1903).

Remarks. Although H. parallela was originally described from the “Greek Archipelago” (Fieber 1860; see below), the record of it from Cephalonia seems improbable since it is a predominantly montane species (see Bacchi & Rizzotti Vlach 2007) and this specimen was collected at low elevation (see De Carlini 1901, Sangiorgi 1903). This record probably was a misidentification of the similar H. sahlbergi (Fieber, 1848), which occurrs on Corfu (see Jansson 1986, Csabai et al. 2017).

The name Corixa parallela proposed by Fieber (1860) on material “aus dem griechischen Archipel [= from the Greek Archipelago]” possibly originally pertained to another species of Corixidae rather than to the neotype chosen by A. Jansson (Jansson 1986: 50), which was from a mountainous area in Macedonia (FYROM) at 1179 m a.s.l.