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).