Harpalus (Ophonus) chloroticus Dejean, 1829: 234

Serrano, José, 2022, Designation of types of European Harpalini (Coleoptera: Carabidae) described by Dejean and deposited in the MNHN, Paris, Zootaxa 5141 (5), pp. 484-500 : 496

Harpalus (Ophonus) chloroticus Dejean, 1829: 234 .

The specimen here recognized as holotype is a male bearing labels: “ chloroticus m. in Sicilia ” “Famin.” “ex-Museo Chaudoir” and “ Holotype of Harpalus (Ophonus) chloroticus Dejean, 1829 . J. Serrano vidit.” .

Recognition of the holotype is based on Dejean’s description: Je ne possède qu’un individu mâle de cette espèce; il m’a été envoyé par M. Famin, comme venant de Sicile .

According to Dejean (1829), H. chloroticus resembles to H. pallidus but differs in having the head and pronotum more reddish, punctures smaller, basal foveae of pronotum more marked, elytra more convex and a smaller dark spot on the disk.

The species is distributed to Calabria, Sicily ( Magistretti, 1965) and Algeria ( Jaeger & Kataev, 2017).