Psilothrix protensa ( Gené, 1836 )

Liberti, Gianfranco, 2009, Improved Strategies for Branching on General Disjunctions, Zootaxa 2318, pp. 339-385 : 366

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scientific name	Psilothrix protensa ( Gené, 1836 )
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Psilothrix protensa ( Gené, 1836)

( Fig. 27 View FIGURES 24–27 )

Dasytes protensus Gené, 1836: 19 , pl. I, fig. 10 (Loc. typ. “Karali, Pulae, Iglesias, etc.”, south-west Sardinia); Küster 1850: nr. 9; Redtenbacher 1858: 546; Kiesenwetter 1859: 177; Kiesenwetter 1863: 644 footnote; Kiesenwetter 1867b: 137, 139; Rottenberg 1870: 243; Schilsky 1894a: 235; Ragusa 1896: 76; Porta 1929: 122; Pic 1937: 109 [ Lasius View in CoL ]; Sparacio 1997: 106.

Material examined. Carbonia-Iglesias prov.: Isola di Sant'Antioco, 1989 ( MCSNG); Isola di Sant’Antioco, Capo Sperone, 1978 ( CLI). Cagliari prov.: Cagliari, y-a ( MSNUF); Cagliari, Monte Urpino, 1975 ( CME); Elmas, 1991 ( CMG); Saline di Santa Gilla, 2001 ( CLI); Serdiana, 2001 ( CFA, CLI); Sestu, 1975 ( CME); Stagno di Molentargius, y-? ( MSNUF); Stagno di Simbirizzi, 1986 ( CME); Villaspeciosa, 1979 ( CME).

Chorotype. Central Mediterranean: Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia, Tunisia, Algeria ( Mayor, 2007b). Affinities: see P.aureola .

Notes. A wingless species, bright green as the other Psilothrix , rather small and showing the modifications often associated with apterism: elytra without humeral calli and, in females only, widened in posterior half. Not uncommon in Sardinia but only in the south ( Fig. 27 View FIGURES 24–27 ); also known from Corsica ( Mayor 2007b) , where it is rare.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Melyridae
Genus	Psilothrix