Melanopsis pygmaea hispidula Pallary, 1916

Mel. [anopsis] Canthidomus turritus Handmann 1887: 32, pl. 7, fig. 13.

Melanopsis bouei bouei —Wenz 1929: 2671 [in part: referring to records of M. turrita only].

Melanoptychia turrita Jekelius 1944: 138, pl. 57, figs 1–21.

Melanopsis pygmaea turrita — Papp 1953: 150, pl. 12, figs 24–27.

Melanopsis hispidula Pallary 1916: 84 .

Discussion. Melanopsis turrita Handmann, 1882 is considered a junior subjective synonym of M. bouei bouei by Wenz (1929, p. 2674). Jekelius (1944) seemingly ignored this and treated it still as Melanopsis turrita in the discussions. Papp (1953) later ranked it as a subspecies of M. pygmaea Hörnes, 1856 . This is also followed by Fordinál (1997) and Mikuž (2005).

However, is has been overlooked so far that M. turrita Handmann, 1887 displays a primary homonym of the extant species M. turrita Rossmässler, 1854 (not " Bourguignat, 1884 " as given by Pallary 1916; see also Bourguignat 1884, p. 163), for which Pallary (1916) invented the replacement name Melanopsis hispidula . We follow the latest taxonomic opinion and rank it as a subspecies of M. pygmaea .