Two new species of the genus Blattochaeta Reitter, 1910 (Insecta, Coleoptera Leiodidae, Cholevinae, Leptodirini) from Montenegro
Author
Čeplík, Dávid
Biospeleologica Slovaca, Letná 16, SK- 040 01, Košice, Slovakia. Croatian Biospeleological Society, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Author
Lakota, Ján
0000-0002-4264-9129
Biospeleologica Slovaca, Letná 16, SK- 040 01, Košice, Slovakia. Slovak Museum of Nature Protection and Speleology, Školská 4, SK- 031 01, Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia. Croatian Biospeleological Society, Rooseveltov trg 6, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia. jan. lakota @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4264 - 9129
jan.lakota@gmail.com
Author
Čeplík, Jaroslav
Biospeleologica Slovaca, Letná 16, SK- 040 01, Košice, Slovakia.
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-05-10
4969
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journal article
6443
10.11646/zootaxa.4969.1.4
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Blattochaeta marianii kusijanovici
Polak & Jalžić, 2009
Material studied.
Paratype
,
1 ♀
:
Croatia
, Sniježnica Mts., Glogova jama pit,
24.08.2005
, B. Jalžić lgt., (
CDC
).
Remarks:
Blattochaeta marianii
with its subspecies is recorded e.g.,
Pretner (1977)
,
Polak & Jalžić (2009)
and were collected with additional recent finds in many caves and pits, approximately more than twenty speleological localities in Orjen Mts. and Krivošije Mts. in southwestern
Montenegro
and several localities in southeastern
Bosnia and Herzegovina
, except only
B. marianii kusijanovici
which is currently known only from its type locality in
Croatia
. Specimens are deposited in different museums and private collections. The type locality of some
Blattochaeta marianii
ssps., and of
Blattochaeta matchai
Jeannel, 1924
are not exact, since the collectors, for example Leo Weirather, for unknown personal reasons, in the past often did not provide to the species authors the correct and real names of type localities (caves and pits). This has already been mentioned by
Pretner (1977)
and
Polak & Jalžić (2009)
. Based on the above, it would be necessary to collect as much fresh material as possible from most localities from Orjen and Krivošije Mts., for detailed study of all morphological external and internal characters of species to resolve the status and variability of these taxa. Currently, due to the lack of sufficient quantity of material we are not able to resolve here this taxonomic problem.