Cantharis (s.str.) daurica Gebler, 1832

Fig. 2.

Cantharis daurica Gebler, 1832: 45 .

= Cantharis mannerheimi Pic, 1902: 63 .

= Podabrus vittatus Fischer von Waldheim, 1844: 34, syn.n.

REMARKS. The type of Podabrus vittatus Fischer von Waldheim, 1844 appears to have been lost. However, the description of this taxon seems to be clear enough:‘ P [odabrus] elongatus, angustatus; capite thoraceque flavis; elytra fusco-grisea, flavi-limbata, vittata, vittis binis obscuris nigrescentibus, altera media, alter marginali. Long. 3 lin. Lat. 1 lin. Forma et habitus praecedentis [ P. nigriventris]. Caput nutans flavescens, oculis prominentibus nigris. Thorax submarginatus flavus impressione postica triangulari profunda. Elytra obscuri grisea, albo marginata, vittis binis obscuris nigrescentibus, altera medio, alteraque margine. Pectus nigrum, abdomen et pedes flavi. Hab. in Tataria magna. D. Pander’ [Fischer von Waldheim, 1844].

This description of a ‘ Podabrus’ from ‘Tataria magna’ (which is anywhere from the Caspian Sea to the Far East Pacific Coast, north of what is considered now Central Asia) perfectly fits to just one cantharine species from this vast area. It is Cantharis daurica Gebler, 1832, whose coloration is unique due to the black longitudinal elytral stripes (Fig. 2). Cantharis daurica is distributed in East Siberia (Tuva, Transbaikalia), Far East (Amurskaya Oblast) and Mongolia [Kazantsev, Brancucci, 2007; Kazantsev, 2011]. As these species apparently belong to a single taxon, and also taking into account that Fischer regarded Podabrus as a replacement name for Cantharis, Podabrus vittatus Fischer de Waldheim, 1844, syn.n. is proposed as a junior synonym of Cantharis daurica Gebler, 1832 .