Saprinus (Saprinus) lautus Erichson, 1839

Penati, Fabio, 2009, An updated catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia, with faunistic, zoogeographical, ecological and conservation remarks *, Zootaxa 2318, pp. 197-280 : 263

Saprinus (Saprinus) lautus Erichson

Literature data. “ Sardinia ” ( Bertolini 1904; Porta 1926; Luigioni 1929; Horion 1949; Barajon 1966; Vienna 1980; Audisio et al. 1995; Yélamos & Lackner 2004).

Notes. The specimen of Saprinus algericus present in the Baudi di Selve collection under the name “ S. lautus ” proves, in my opinion, that the first record of S. lautus for Sardinia, later reported by several authors, was probably based on a misidentification. In reality, as already stated by Penati and Vienna (2002), S. lautus is absent from Sardinia.