Dasytes (Dasytes) pauperculus Laporte de Castelnau, 1840

Liberti, Gianfranco, 2009, Improved Strategies for Branching on General Disjunctions, Zootaxa 2318, pp. 339-385 : 358

Dasytes (Dasytes) pauperculus Laporte de Castelnau, 1840

Dasytes pauperculus Laporte de Castelnau, 1840: 232 (Loc. typ. Lyon, France); Mulsant & Rey 1868: 142; Schilsky 1897b: nr. 34V; Pic 1937: 80; * Liberti 2004a: 290.

= Dasytes pilicornis Kiesenwetter, 1864: 388 ( Kiesenwetter 1864: 388; Pic 1937: 80); Mulsant & Rey 1868: 137, 138 pl. VII; Baudi di Selve 1873a: 310; Schilsky 1894a: 230; Schilsky 1894b: nr. 35; Schilsky1897a: nr. 34R; Bertolini 1899 –1904: 73; Pic 1903: 128; Sainte-Claire Deville 1908: 215; Fiori 1912: 131; Pic 1918: 5, 11, 12; Pic 1924a: 81, 87; Porta 1929: 120; Fagniez 1946: 26; Horion 1953: 132.

= Dasytes pilicornis var. mesmini Pic, 1908: 46 ( Liberti 2004a: 290) .

= Aplocnemus ponferradanus Pic, 1913: 105 ( Constantin 2005: 229) .

Material examined. Nuoro prov.: *Orgosolo, 1995 ( CAN). Medio Campidano prov.: *Giara di Gesturi, 1999 ( CME). Carbonia-Iglesias prov.: Monti Marganai, 2005 ( CNBFVR).

Chorotype. Euro-Mediterranean; found everywhere in Italy. Affinities unknown.

Notes. Reported for Sardinia by Bertolini (1899 –1904) and Sainte-Claire Deville (1908). It is easy to recognize by the small, rather short and flat shape with transverse pronotum and—in the male sex—by the long antennae fitted with long hairs on all segments. A rare species probably associated with oaks; it has been collected several times by passive breeding from oak branches and, mainly females, by flight interception traps (Liberti, unpublished data). In Sardinia and Sicily it seems to be less rare than elsewhere in Italy (Liberti, unpublished data).