Stelis ( Stelis ) murina Pérez, 1884

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Stelis ( Stelis) murina Pérez, 1884

This taxon was treated as subspecies of Stelis phaeoptera ( Kirby, 1802) by Warncke (1992c) and others, but was re-established as a valid species by Baker (1999). Recorded from several (mainly southern) European countries, although not all records are clearly separated from S. phaeoptera (see Kasparek 2015). The subspecies Stelis ( Stelis) murina cretica Mavromoustakis, 1963 was described from Crete ( Mavromoustakis 1963).

Distribution. Spain (including Canary Islands), France, Italy, Croatia, and Greece. Outside Europe, it occurs in northern Africa. Occurrence in Cyprus needs confirmation ( Varnava et al. 2020).

Species overlooked in the previous European checklists