Olophrum puncticolle EPPELSHEIM , 1880

Assing, Volker, 2017, A revision of types and additional material of Staphylinidae from the Iablokoff-Khnzorian collection (Insecta: Coleoptera), Linzer biologische Beiträge 49 (1), pp. 333-340 : 334

Olophrum puncticolle EPPELSHEIM, 1880

Olophrum puncticolle EPPELSHEIM, 1880: 212 f.

Olophrum erevanicum IABLOKOFF- KHNZORIAN, 1964: 155 ff.; nov.syn.

T y p e m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: O. puncticolle : Lectotype 3: " puncticolle mihi, Süd-

Ungarn, Kuthy / c. Eppelsh. Steind. d. / Typus / Lectotypus Olophrum puncticolle Epp. / des. A.

Zanetti 2008 " (NHMW).

O. erevanicum : Holotype 3: " Erevan, Dzhrbezh , ASSR - 16-5-48 / Holotypus / Olophrum

puncticolle Eppelsheim, det. V. Assing 2017 " (cKal). Paratype [teneral]: same data as holotype, but

"18-4-48" (cKal).

A d d i t i o n a l m a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Slovenia: 13, Krivi vrh, Sv. Ana, 28.IV.1998, leg. Drovenik (cAss) ; 13, Police, Gor. Radgona, 28.III.1998, leg. Drovenik (cAss). Turkey:K a s t a m o n u:13, 40 km NW Kastamonu, NE Azdavay, W Yeşilpınar , 41°42'N, 33°28'E, 1090 m, calcareous slope and flooded field, under stones, 22.III.2010 (cAss) ; 13, 1♀, 45 km NW Kastamonu, 5 km NW Ağli , 41°44'N, 33°30'E, stream bank, floated, 23.III.2010, leg. Assing (cAss) ; 1♀, road from Ağli to Azdavay, 41°41'N, 33°24'E, 910 m, calcareous stream in open land, 26.IV.2006 (cAss). S i n o p: 1♀, ca. 22 km S Sinop, N Lala , 41°53'N, 35°03'E, 160 m, oak and laurel forest with undergrowth, sifted, 31.III.2009, leg. Assing (cAss). S a m s u n: 13, 1♀, 15 km NW Bafra, Karaboğaz Gölü , 41°41'N, 35°48'E, 0 m, beach, flood debris, sifted, 30.III.2009, leg. Assing (cAss) ; 13, 9 km WNW Bafra, 41°35'N, 35°50'E, 55 m, mixed deciduous forest with oak, Hedera and Rubus undergrowth, 30.III.2009, leg. Wunderle (cWun). G a z i a n t e p: 13, W Birecik, Belkis / Euphrat , 37°03'N, 37°53'E, 440 m, 24.IV.2004, leg. Besuchet (cAss) .

C o m m e n t: The original description of Olophrum puncticolle is based on an unspecified number of syntypes ("in wenigen Exemplaren") from "Südungarn" ( EPPELSHEIM 1880). ZANETTI (2008) designated a lectotype. A comparison of the holotype and a paratype of O. erevanicum with the lectotype and additional material of O. puncticolle revealed that they are conspecific, so that O. erevanicum is placed in synonymy with O. puncticolle . According to SCHÜLKE & SMETANA (2015), this species was previously unknown from Slovenia.