Eulagius Motschulsky, 1845

Biscaccianti, Alessandro B., Esser, Jens, Cuoco, Silvio, Grimaldi, Enrica Giuliano & Audisio, Paolo A., 2022, West Palaearctic taxa formerly connected to the ‘ old’ genus Atritomus Reitter, 1877 (Coleoptera, Mycetophagidae): taxonomy, distribution, and description of a new genus, European Journal of Taxonomy 828, pp. 61-74 : 63-64

Eulagius Motschulsky, 1845

Eulagius Motschulsky, 1845: 92 . Type species: Eulagius acernus Motschulsky, 1845 , by monotypy.

Parabaptistes Ganglbauer, 1899: 838 . Type species: Tritoma univestris Reitter, 1878 , by monotypy.

Remarks

Eulagius was introduced by Motschulsky (1845) for the Caucasian E. acernus Motschulsky, 1845 . The genus seems characterized by an Asiatic chorotype (sensu Vigna Taglianti et al. 1999), extending westwards to the Caucasian region. Eight species are currently ascribed to Eulagius , five of them occurring in the eastern part of Palaearctic Asia, namely E. lewisi ( Reitter, 1889) , E. reitteri ( Lewis, 1896) , E. dentatus Nikitsky, 1988 , E. ussuriensis Nikitsky, 1988 , and E. chinensis Nikitsky, 1996 , and the remaining three, namely E. acernus Motschulsky, 1845 , E. irregularis (Reitter, 1888) , and E. hyrcanicus Esser, Varandi & Farashiani, 2018 , occurring between the Caucasus and northern Iran ( Esser et al. 2018; Nikitsky 2020). A ninth included species, “ Eulagius filicornis ( Reitter 1877) ” (described in Atritomus ; Reitter 1877 b), is transferred to a separate, new genus described hereunder.

It should also be noted that Eulagius reitteri was described in 1896 and not in 1895 (see Lewis 1896; Esser et al. 2018).