Saprinus (Saprinus) virescens (Paykull)

Penati, Fabio, 2009, An updated catalogue of the Histeridae (Coleoptera) of Sardinia, with faunistic, zoogeographical, ecological and conservation remarks *, Zootaxa 2318, pp. 197-280 : 264

Saprinus (Saprinus) virescens (Paykull)

Literature data. “ Sardinia ” ( Gobbi 1973; Penati & Vienna 2005, 2006a).

Notes. The first and so far only record of this rare species from Sardinia is based on the annotation “Sardegna” [= Sardinia] added by hand by Luigioni to his own catalogue ( Gobbi 1973). No Sardinian specimens of S. virescens were found in Luigioni’s collection nor in any of the other collections examined by Penati and Vienna (2005, 2006a), who nonetheless reported Gobbi’s (1973) record. However, given the fact that the additional researches did not provide any new data and that the species is absent also from neighbouring Corsica ( Secq & Secq 1997), I consider the above record to be based on a misidentification and therefore exclude the species from the Sardinian histerid fauna.