Leptopus hispanus, Rambur, 1840

Leptopus hispanus View in CoL ,

described by RAMBUR (1840) 1 from Granada (southern Spain), has a known distribution range that includes southern Europe [ France (mainland and Corsica), Greece (mainland and Crete), Italy (mainland, Sardinia, and Sicily), and Spain], northern Africa ( Algeria, Canary Islands, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia) and Asia ( Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Kirgizia, Syria, Tadzhikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan) ( HORVÁTH, 1911; HOBERLANDT, 1983; BAENA & VÁZQUEZ, 1985; PÉRICART, 1990; LINDSKOG, 1995; HECKMANN et al., 2015; DUSOULIER, 2021; CHITADZE et al., 2023).

The Iberian distribution ( Map 1 View Map 1 ) includes the Spanish provinces of (only the earliest record for each province is presented)¡ Granada ( RAMBUR, 1840), Madrid ( PÉREZ ARCAS, 1877), Cádiz and Valencia ( BOLÍVAR & CHICOTE, 1879), Alicante ( RIBES & SAULEDA, 1979), Córdoba and Teruel ( BAENA & VÁZQUEZ, 1985), Barcelona ( BAENA & VÁZQUEZ, 1989), Girona, Málaga, and Zaragoza ( PÉRICART, 1990), and La Rioja ( DOMINGO, 2013).

Material examined and iNaturalist Portuguese records

PORTUGAL:

Beja district:

— Mértola municipality¡

x Left bank of the river Vascão , beneath a rock (37.49959, -7.701303; MGRS ¡ 29SPB1451 ), 9/12/2023 (1 specimen photographed by Luís P. da Silva (see here).

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— Moura municipality¡

x Right bank of the river Ardila , near Santo Amador (38.148431, -7.295778; MGRS ¡ 29SPC4923 ), 12/01/2024 (1 specimen photographed by Axel Gosseries (see here).

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Faro district:

— Tavira municipality¡

x Monte da Ribeira (37.299325, -7.751890; MGRS ¡ 29SPB1028 ), 10/02/2024 (1 ♂, Thijs Valkenburg leg., MHNC-UP col.¡ MHNCUP-ART-41219). Same locality and collecting date [1 ♂, Thijs Valkenburg leg., MHNC-UP col.¡ MHNCUP-ART-41220; photographed by Nelson ConceiÇão (see here) and Thijs Valkenburg (see here)]. GoogleMaps

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x Monte da Ribeira (37.299305, -7.751650; MGRS ¡ 29 SPB1028 ), 10/02/2024 [1 ♂, Thijs Valkenburg leg., MHNC-UP col.¡ MHNCUP-ART-41221; photographed by Nelson ConceiÇão (see here) and Thijs Valkenburg (see here, one of the pictures is shown in Fig. 1 View Fig )]. GoogleMaps