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The first report of
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for mainland
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was by
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, who described six species based on specimens collected during his expedition to the
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. In this work are included some of the current-day
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that he referred to the genus
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. Subsequently, other authors have mentioned
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and other
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in faunistic lists for
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(
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;
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), or in taxonomic works (
<bibRefCitation id="EFC84B3FC154842FFAD5FEA1FF5E8CB8" author="Reitter, E." pageId="4" pageNumber="155" pagination="53 - 64" refId="ref31091" refString="Reitter, E. (1890) Analytische revision der Coleopteren-Gattung Amphicoma, subgenus Pygopleurus Motsch. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1890, 53 - 64. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 48018900307" type="journal article" year="1890">Reitter 1890</bibRefCitation>
), but over seventy years passed before a new taxon was proposed for this country (
<bibRefCitation id="EFC84B3FC154842FFB0FFE45FAA58CB8" author="Reitter, E." box="[1172,1320,405,431]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" pagination="28 - 158" refId="ref31130" refString="Reitter, E. (1903) Bestimmungs-Tabelle der Melolonthidae. IV. Rutelini, Hopliini und Glaphyrini. Verhandlungen des Naturforschenden Vereins, Brunn, 51, 28 - 158. [1902]" type="journal article" year="1903">Reitter 1903</bibRefCitation>
). After 50 years,
<bibRefCitation id="EFC84B3FC154842FFF44FE69FEF08CC3" author="Miksic, R." box="[223,381,441,468]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" pagination="39 - 44" refId="ref30446" refString="Miksic, R. (1959) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Scarabaeidae. Fauna der Mediterranen Gebietes und der Balkan-Halbinsel. Bollettino della Societa Entomologica Italiana, 89, 39 - 44." type="journal article" year="1959">Mikšić (1959)</bibRefCitation>
and
<bibRefCitation id="EFC84B3FC154842FFE2AFE69FDD28CC3" author="Petrovitz, R." box="[433,607,441,468]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" pagination="38 - 68" refId="ref30828" refString="Petrovitz, R. (1958) Das Subgenus Pygopleurus Motsch. der Gattung Amphicoma Latr. (Col. Scarabaeidae, Glaphyrinae). Entomologisk Tidskrift, 78 (Supplement), 38 - 68." type="journal article" year="1958">Petrovitz (1958</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EFC84B3FC154842FFDF2FE69FD298CC4" author="Petrovitz, R." box="[617,676,441,467]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" pagination="99 - 105" refId="ref30927" refString="Petrovitz, R. (1964) Amphicoma - Studien. Zur Kenntnis einiger Amphicoma - Arten. Reichenbachia, 3 (5), 99 - 105." type="journal article" year="1964">1964</bibRefCitation>
,
<bibRefCitation id="EFC84B3FC154842FFD35FE69FD6A8CC4" author="Petrovitz, R." box="[686,743,441,467]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" pagination="21 - 30" refId="ref31015" refString="Petrovitz, R. (1972) Palaarktische und Orientalische Glaphyrinae-Formen (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin, 48, 21 - 30. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnz. 19720480103" type="journal article" year="1972">1972</bibRefCitation>
) described a few species and subspecies and introduced names for “forms” and “aberrations”.
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Finally,
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consolidated the taxonomy of the Greek
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in his revision of the genus recognizing 7 species for the mainland. To date, no further taxonomic treatments nor studies were published.
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The taxa described by Brullé: restriction of
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All taxa described by
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were collected during his scientific expedition to Morea (currently, Peloponnese) in 1829, but most of them had no
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locality indicated. By crosschecking information provided by
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and those found in the report by
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Bory De
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, we determined that Brullé carried out two collecting trips in the spring 1829:
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30
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16
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He undertook additional collecting trips during the late spring and the summer of the same year, however after the period of activity of
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that, in the area, ends by late May. During both spring trips Brullé collected in an area roughly comprised between Filiatra (presently Trifyllia), Kalamata, and Methoni (presently Pylos-Nestoras), within the current Messenia regional unit. Consequently, we restrict the
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locality of
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taxa described by Brullé to “Messenia”.
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The material collected by Brullé, according to Horn &amp; Kale (1937), should be housed at the MNHN. Unfortunately, most of the original specimens are untraceable or wrongly identified as such.
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, who designated some
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, already acknowledged the loss of type specimens.
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<emphasis id="B92DEADCC154842FFF0CFB91FCC5894B" bold="true" box="[151,840,1089,1116]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Infrasubspecific value of the forms described by Petrovitz</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation id="EFC84B3FC154842FFF5CFBB5FE0C8997" author="Petrovitz, R." box="[199,385,1125,1152]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" pagination="38 - 68" refId="ref30828" refString="Petrovitz, R. (1958) Das Subgenus Pygopleurus Motsch. der Gattung Amphicoma Latr. (Col. Scarabaeidae, Glaphyrinae). Entomologisk Tidskrift, 78 (Supplement), 38 - 68." type="journal article" year="1958">Petrovitz (1958)</bibRefCitation>
, in his work on
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<emphasis id="B92DEADCC154842FFDA1FBB5FD458968" box="[570,712,1125,1151]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Pygopleurus</emphasis>
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, proposed many new names as f.[orm]. Following, we maintain that these names should be considered infrasubsecific according to article 45.6.4 of ICZN, and hence unavailable according to article 45.5.
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In the introduction, Petrovitz clearly states “
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Eine endgültige Klärung der noch offenen Probleme, vor allem bezüglich der wirklichen Wertigkeit
<emphasis id="B92DEADCC154842FFDB6FB25FBDF8807" bold="true" box="[557,1106,1269,1296]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">der hier als Aberrationen bezeichneten Formen</emphasis>
, wird vielleicht nicht in allen Fällen am Schreibtisch, sondern in der eingangs erwähnten Art biologischer Beobachtungen zu suchen sein
</emphasis>
[= A final elucidation of still open issues, primarily on the true value of
<emphasis id="B92DEADCC154842FFC03FAEEFAF4884F" bold="true" box="[920,1401,1341,1368]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">the forms described here as aberrations</emphasis>
, is perhaps not to be sought in all cases at desk, but by biological observations of the species listed in the introduction]. Hence, the rank of the f.[orm]
<emphasis id="B92DEADCC154842FFE70FA56FDA48888" box="[491,553,1414,1439]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">sensu</emphasis>
Petrovitz, is clearly introduced as infrasubspecific. In addition, in the same paper, Petrovitz explicitly used the term of subspecies (cited as “ssp.”) for some taxa, applying it at a rank higher than forms (“f.”): this is clear from the
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setting of the paper itself and by the subordination of some “forms” (hence quadrinomial) to “
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(
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)
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ssp.
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” (
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). To further substantiate our conclusions, we can add that many “forms” shared a same descriptive color name which was applied in combination to several species at the same time (see, for example, f.
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and f.
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, each used in combination with six species, or f.
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, used in combination with eleven species) then with clear sense of individual form not species-specific. For example, treating
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<emphasis id="B92DEADCC154842FFDC2F951FCEC8B8C" box="[601,865,1665,1691]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Pygopleurus humeralis</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFC84B3FC154842FFCE9F951FBC78B8C" author="Petrovitz, R." box="[882,1098,1665,1692]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" pagination="38 - 68" refId="ref30828" refString="Petrovitz, R. (1958) Das Subgenus Pygopleurus Motsch. der Gattung Amphicoma Latr. (Col. Scarabaeidae, Glaphyrinae). Entomologisk Tidskrift, 78 (Supplement), 38 - 68." type="journal article" year="1958">Petrovitz 1958: 49</bibRefCitation>
) Petrovitz
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stated “
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” [= Pronotum bright green (f.
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), sometimes with golden shimmer] which clarify that Petrovitz considered his f.[orm] as individual, and suggests that he was prone to apply the name “
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” to any green individual of
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<emphasis id="B92DEADCC154842FFD69F93DFC0D8A10" box="[754,896,1773,1799]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Pygopleurus</emphasis>
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not matching the color of the
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, regardless of species.
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<emphasis id="B92DEADCC154842FFF0CF889FEF38A63" bold="true" box="[151,382,1881,1908]" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Taxonomic account</emphasis>
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Our study led to the identification of ten species and one subspecies of
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<emphasis id="B92DEADCC154842FFB85F8ADFB218A80" box="[1054,1196,1917,1943]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="155">Pygopleurus</emphasis>
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inhabiting mainland
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.
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The arrangement of species we follow does not conform to the informal groups IIV introduced by
<bibRefCitation id="EFC84B3FC154842EFAD0F815FF698DA4" author="Baraud, J." lastPageId="5" lastPageNumber="156" pageId="4" pageNumber="155" pagination="331 - 375" refId="ref29740" refString="Baraud, J. (1989) Revision du genre Pygopleurus Motschulsky (Coleoptera, Scarabaoidea: Glaphyridae). Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 25 (3), 331 - 375, 89 figs." type="book chapter" year="1989">Baraud (1989)</bibRefCitation>
, as we consider them non-natural. Based on the morphological similarity of external morphology, paramera and everted endophallus, we formally introduce two species-groups that seem well supported with respect to the whole genus
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<emphasis id="B92DEADCC155842EFEB7FF31FE378DEC" box="[300,442,225,251]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">Pygopleurus</emphasis>
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. The other species here considered are not assigned to groups, and appear to loosely related, with the only exception of
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<emphasis id="B92DEADCC155842EFD92FED6FD268C08" box="[521,683,261,287]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">P. chrysonotus</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B92DEADCC155842EFD79FED6FCF88C08" box="[738,885,261,287]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="156">P. scutellatus</emphasis>
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, very close to each other.
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A checklist of species and species-groups, with corresponding old names, is presented in
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detailed taxonomic account follows, with species arranged as in the table.
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