Revision of the Ropalopus ungaricus / insubricus group (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Callidiini) from the western Palaearctic region Author Karpiński, Lech Author Szczepański, Wojciech T. Author Kruszelnicki, Lech text Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2020 2020-03-03 189 1176 1216 journal article 3332 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz154 cee2b5b0-e6bb-42d7-9251-858861f02691 0024-4082 5721563 F7564C93-D0FA-4907-AC35-D3EF3BB2A151 ROPALOPUS UNGARICUS (HERBST, 1784) Distribution: Europe (including European Russia and westernmost Turkey ) and North Africa ( Algeria , probably also Morocco and Tunisia ) ( Fig. 20 ). Figure 14. A1–C14, habitus (dorsal view). A, Ropalopus ungaricus ungaricus : 1–8, males, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovakia, Slovakia, Austria, France and Montenegro, respectively; 9–14, females, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovakia, France and Dalmatia, respectively. B, Ropalopus ungaricus gallicus : 1–5, males, France; 6–7, females, France. C, Ropalopus ungaricus insubricus : 1–9, males, Italy, Croatia, Croatia, Croatia, Croatia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary and Ukraine, respectively; 10–14, females, Slovakia, Croatia, Croatia, Croatia and Hungary, respectively (photographs A4, C6, C7: www.hmyzfoto.cz). Scale bar: 5 mm. Figure 15. A1–F1, habitus (dorsal view). A, Ropalopus ungaricus siculus : 1–5, males, Italy (Sicily); 6, female, Italy (Sicily). B, Ropalopus ungaricus boreki : 1, male, Greece (Peloponnese). C, Ropalopus ungaricus ossae : 1 male holotype Greece (Thessaly); 2–5, male paratypes, Greece (Thessaly); 6–7, female paratypes, Greece (Thessaly). D, Ropalopus nataliyae : 1–4, males, Iran; 5–7, females, Iran. E, Ropalopus lederi : 1–2, males, Russia (north-west Caucasus). F, Ropalopus hanae : 1, male, Turkey (www.cerambyx.uochb.cz). Scale bar: 5 mm. This is a highly variable taxon that to date has been considered a separate species apart from R. insubricus (with its three subspecies), R. siculus and the newly described R. boreki sensu e.g. Danilevsky (2019a) . Consequently, there was a difficult taxonomic situation, and many issues with both problematic specimens that show intermediate characters (and also probably some hybrids) and with determining the distribution of particular species in Europe, especially in countries such as Italy , France , Hungary and Greece . Other issues concern some described varieties, e.g. annulus and vogti , that were transferred between the taxa R. ungaricus and R. insubricus (Sama, 2002) . Therefore, all European populations are reduced to subspecific level under this species. The following subspecies are proposed herein, with the specified distribution.