Helix subprofuga var. hoemastoma Bellini, 1915: 170

Fasulo, Giuseppe, Duraccio, Sergio, Federico, Antonio & Crocetta, Fabio, 2019, The (almost) unknown Italian naturalist Raffaello Bellini (1874 - 1930): biography malacological publications, and status of his recent molluscan taxa, Zootaxa 4668 (3), pp. 343-369 : 360

Helix subprofuga var. hoemastoma Bellini, 1915: 170

Type locality: Capri Island ( Naples , Tyrrhenian Sea , Italy) and Paludi al Vasto (Naples, Italy) .

Original description: “labbro internamente d’un rosso vivo” [internal part of the lip marked with bright red].

Material examined: four glued shells labelled “Dono Bellini” [Donated by Bellini] and “ Helix (Heliomanes) subprofuga Sta. —(Xerophila)—Capri” and labelled by Bellini “ Helix subprofuga, Stabile—Capri ” (MZF2—Z6969); 18 shells labelled by Bellini “ H. (Xerophila) subprofuga , Stabile—juv.—Capri” (MCCIC—drawer 19, n. 297b). All these shells belong to the Cernuella cisalpina (Rossmässler, 1837) species complex.

Remarks: having been instituted on the basis of insignificant morphological characteristics, we rank it infrasubspecific, and thus not available ( ICZN 2012: Art. 10.2, 45 .5, 45.6, glossary). Alzona (1971) listed “ hoemastoma Bellini 1915 ” as a synonym of Helicella (Cernuella) subprofuga (Stabile, 1864) , now Cernuella cisalpina (Rossmässler, 1837) . Helix subprofuga var. hoemastoma Bellini, 1915 would be also preoccupied by Helix haemastoma Linnaeus, 1758 . Manganelli & Giusti (1988) considered this taxon as belonging to the “small Cernuella group”, with an uncertain identity. Specimens ascribed to C. cisalpina were found again in Capri Island during recent field studies ( Petraccioli et al. 2005, 2006).