The Cleridae, Anthribidae and Curculionidae (Coleoptera) described by Ponza Author Colonnelli, Enzo Author Nardi, Gianluca text Zootaxa 2019 2019-04-24 4590 1 196 199 journal article 26976 10.11646/zootaxa.4590.1.11 393320d9-8fc2-4f7f-a2d9-0d7e46db0f0c 1175-5326 2651528 C430A9DC-76FC-4644-AEE2-8A19A5BD1919 Clerus mutillarius mutillarius Fabricius, 1775 Clerus mutillarius Fabricius, 1775 : 157 Attelabus funereus Ponza, 1805 : 66 , pl. 1, Lin. 4[.2] Ghiliani (1887 : 300) considered A. funereus Ponza as a synonym of C. mutillarius . The synonymy was listed also by Luigioni (1929 : 636), as Pseudoclerops mutillarius Fabricius = funereus Ponza , but was mostly overlooked otherwise. Dutto et al . (2009 : 428) quoted that two anonymous hand-written notes in French on a copy of Ponza’s (1805) paper, conserved in the library of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale “G. Doria” (Genova), refer this name to C. mutillarius . Original description and illustration confirm the synonymy with the nominal subspecies. No specimens of A. funereus were found in the rich Massimiliano Spinola collection (cf. Ekis 1975 ; Giachino 1982 ), in spite of Spinola—"the superb cleridologist of his time" ( Ekis 1975 : 2)—was active in the same region where Ponza lived (Conci & Poggi 1996 ). Clerus mutillarius mutillarius is widespread across all of Italy (including Sicily and Sardinia ) ( Cornacchia 2011 ) but, from a conservation point of view, is classified as “Near Threatened” ( Audisio et al . 2015 ).