Acupalpus metallescens Dejean, 1829: 482

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 : 485-486

Acupalpus metallescens Dejean, 1829: 482 .

The specimen designated as lectotype is a male bearing the labels “ metallescens m. in Dalmatia” and “ Lectotype of Acupalpus metallescens Dejean, 1829 desig. by J. Serrano ” .

The beetle from Dalmatia is hereby designated as lectotype taking into account that it is well preserved, matches the original description and labels, and also agrees with the current morphological concept of the species (see below).

Jeannel (1942: 728) wrote that the “type” came from midi de la France, a comment without formal taxonomic value. Wrase (2009) formally designed as syntypes beetles deposited in the Collection Johann Friedrich Schüppel, MNHU, Berlin. Schüppel was an entomologist who was well-known for sending valuable material to Dejean, that became the basis for Dejean’s formal descriptions of many new species. Wrase (2009) published morphological details of syntypes, including the illustration of male aedeagus. Although I have not dissected the aedeagus of the lectotype, its external morphology agrees with that described in the works of Fuente (1927), Antoine (1959), Wrase (2009), Wrase & Magrini (2012), Kataev & Wrase (2016), etc.

The species is distributed from the Mediterranean Basin to Central Asia ( Uzbekistan; Wrase & Magrini, 2012).