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REITTER, 1884b:
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f.;
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In the original description of
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, which is based on an unspecified number of
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from Corfu,
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compares the species with
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. (
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)
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FAIRMAIRE, 1860
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and
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. (
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.)
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LACORDAIRE, 1835. Based on a study of “le type et und série de
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” [sic],
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provides a short redescription and illustrations of the aedeagus. In contrast to
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, however, he states that
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is closely allied to
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<emphasis id="66EC2D044561FFB8FB84FD19FB948EA8" box="[1032,1142,640,664]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="55">P. littoralis</emphasis>
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, a species currently assigned to the subgenus
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GAUTIER DES COTTES, 1862 (
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). According to
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,
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is distinguished from
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only by shorter elytra of more trapezoid shape and by the apically truncate dorsal plate of the aedeagus, and it replaces
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<emphasis id="66EC2D044561FFB8FC5CFCD9FBDC8F68" box="[976,1086,832,856]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="55">P. littoralis</emphasis>
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in the
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and is also found in
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and the Pelopónnisos.
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A study of material of
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and
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from Corfu, mainland
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(from the north southwards to the
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), the
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Islands,
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, and various other regions (
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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(numerous localities across the whole country),
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,
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,
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,
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, and
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revealed considerable variation in elytral length and shape, as well as in other external characters. The specimens from Corfu and
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are indeed at the lower end of the range of elytral length, and their elytra are of more trapezoid shape than those of material seen from other regions. On the other hand, intermediate conditions were observed in populations from the Pelopónnisos and
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. Moreover, significant differences in the morphology of the aedeagus were not found. There is, however, some variation in the shapes of the dorsoapical structures (the pair of sclerotized hook-shaped structures best visible in lateral view). They are stout and more or less distinctly angled (lateral view) in material from Corfu, stout and smoothly curved in material from the Caucasus region (
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,
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,
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,
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, East and Northeast
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(
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,
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), and slender and smoothly curved in other regions. Intermediate forms were observed in material from the Pelopónnisos and from southwestern
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(
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). These observations suggest that the variation is somewhat clinal, but unlikely to represent interspecific variation. There are numerous other examples of deviant elytral length in island populations (e.g.,
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<emphasis id="66EC2D044561FFB8FCDAF8F9FBF38B48" box="[854,1041,1888,1912]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="55">Othius lapidicola</emphasis>
(
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))
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and of variation of aedeagal shape (e.g., species of
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<emphasis id="66EC2D044561FFB8FB3DF819FAC68BA8" box="[1201,1316,1920,1944]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="55">Leptobium</emphasis>
CASEY, 1905
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(
<bibRefCitation id="30098CE74561FFB8FCECF839FC0D8B88" author="ASSING, V." box="[864,1007,1952,1976]" pageId="24" pageNumber="55" pagination="1 - 182" refId="ref25781" refString="ASSING, V. 2005: A revision of the genus Leptobium CASEY (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). - Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde, Serie A (Biologie) 673: 1 - 182. - http: // www. naturkundemuseum-bw. de / sites / default / files / publikationen / serie-a / A 673. pdf." type="journal article" year="2005">ASSING 2005</bibRefCitation>
)). Therefore, based on currently available evidence, the populations from Corfu are regarded as conspecific with
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<emphasis id="66EC2D044561FFB8FBB1F879FB4D8BC8" box="[1085,1199,2016,2040]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="55">P. littoralis</emphasis>
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. Hence the synonymy proposed above.
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