Improved Strategies for Branching on General Disjunctions Author Liberti, Gianfranco text Zootaxa 2009 2009-12-22 2318 339 385 http://dx.doi.org/10.1184/r1/6705962.v1 journal article 10.1184/r1/6705962.v1 1175-5326 5307249 Dolichosoma simile ( Brullé, 1832 ) ( Figs 20 , 30 ) Dasytes similis Brullé, 1832: 154 (Loc. typ. Greece ); Kiesenwetter 1859: 177 ; Kiesenwetter 1863: 643 footnote; Kiesenwetter 1867b: 137 ; Baudi di Selve 1873a: 318 ; Schilsky 1894b : nr. 51; Ragusa 1896: 77 ; Porta 1929: 124; Pic 1937: 107 ; Gridelli 1950: 132 ; Kaszab 1955a: 118 ; Kaszab 1955b: 118 , fig. 40 G; Tempère 1974: 227 ; Liberti 1988: 12 ; Lohse 1992: 22 ; Sparacio 1997: 106 , fig. 122. = Dasytes cinereum Ménétries, 1832: 165 ( Kiesenwetter 1859: 177 ) . Material examined. Sassari prov.: Alghero, 1974 ( MCSNG , MCSNV ); Codrongianos, 2003 ( MCSNG ); Lago Baratz, 1999 ( MCSNG ); Porto Conte, 1985 ( MSNUF ); Stagno di Pilo, 1995 ( CAN , CLI , MCSNG ); Viddalba, 1995 ( CAN ). Oristano prov.: Foce Fiume Tirso, 1991 ( CME ); Stagno di Cabras, 1995 ( CAN ). Medio Campidano prov.: Cantoniera Bidderdi, 1995 ( CAN ); Giara di Gesturi, 1999 ( CME ); Marina di Arbus, 2006 ( CNBFVR , MCSNG ); Montevecchio, 1990 ( CME ); Porto Palma, 2003 ( CPA ); Sant'Antonio di Santadi, 2003 ( CPA ); Torre dei Corsari, 2003 ( CPA ). Carbonia-Iglesias prov.: Fontanamare, 1995 ( CAN ); Gonnesa, 1990 ( CME ); Iglesias, 1999 ( CME ); Monti Marganai, 2006 ( CNBFVR ); Villamassargia, 1998 ( CME ). Cagliari prov.: Isili, 2000 ( CFA ); Monte Coa Margine, 1994 ( CME ); Pula, 2001 ( CFA , CLI ); Quirra, 1992 ( CME ); San Priamo, 1994 ( CAN ); Villanovatulo, 1994 ( CME ). Chorotype. East-Mediterranean; it replaces D . lineare in south-eastern Europe and Turkey ( Mayor 2007b ). In the Balkan Peninsula the two species have been sometimes found together ( Croatia , northern Greece ) (Liberti unpublished). Common in central and southern Italy , present in Sicily (probably not in North Africa). Sardinia appears to be the western limit of its distribution area. Notes. Very similar species to D . lineare , from which it can be easily distinguished by the rounded elytral apex (not sharp as in D . lineare ). Rather common and widespread in Sardinia and already reported for the island by Bertolini (1899 –1904) and Porta (1929) . Recorded from Nuoro ( MCSNG , in Mancini collection, det. Pic) by Gridelli (1950) .