Saprinus (Saprinus) prasinus prasinus Erichson, 1834

Shayya, Salman, Degallier, Nicolas, Nel, Andre, Azar, Dany & Lackner, Tomas, 2018, Contribution to the knowledge of Saprinus Erichson, 1834 of forensic relevance from Lebanon (Coleoptera, Histeridae), ZooKeys 738, pp. 117-152 : 125

8. Saprinus (Saprinus) prasinus prasinus Erichson, 1834 Figs 9 , 83 , 87a

Saprinus Saprinus Saprinus prasinus prasinus = Saprinus lindrothi Dahlgren, 1968

Type locality.

Syria.

Distribution.

Italy: Sardinia, Greece: Crete, Bulgaria, Turkey, Armenia, Jordan ( Mazur 2011). It is reported from Lebanon by Lackner et al. (2015). We collected this species from the following two localities, Fanar and Naas (Fig. 83 ).

Biology.

Widespread and frequent East-Mediterranean species found mostly on carrion ( Rozner 2010). In our samples, 29 specimens were collected.

Comment.

Saprinus prasinus has another subspecies S. (S.) prasinus aeneomicans G. Müller, 1960 that occurs in neighbouring Israel and Syria ( Lackner et al. 2015). According to Kryzhanovskij and Reichardt (1976) this subspecies differs from the nominotypical one by a distinct bronze hue of the dorsum.

Figures

Figure 9. Saprinus (S.) prasinus prasinus Erichson, 1834 habitus, dorsal view.

Figure 83. Distribution of S. (S.) maculatus, S. (S.) magnoguttatus, S. (S.) prasinus prasinus, and S. (S.) robustus in Lebanon.

Figure 87. Abundance of Saprinus (S.) prasinus prasinus (87 a) and S. (S.) robustus (87 b) during the decomposition stages in different Lebanese localities.