Lampyris algerica subsp. levigata, Geisthardt, 1983

Fanti, Fabrizio, 2024, Lampyridae: History of the type species of the genus Luciola, updated checklist of North African fireflies, and other taxonomic and faunistic notes, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 24 (1), pp. 43-64 : 45

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scientific name	Lampyris algerica subsp. levigata
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L. algerica levigata Geisthardt, 1983 View in CoL

Lampyris algerica levigata Geisthardt, 1983: 30 View in CoL . Loc. typ. “ Algérie, Ste.-Croix de l'Edough, 700 à 1000 m ” (1918, leg. Chevreux)

Distribution. Present in Algeria and Tunisia. Probably mainly on the Kabylia mountain range ( Geisthardt 1983).

45 Note. The specimens L. mutabilis from El Feidja and L. soror from Ain Draham reported by Normand (1935) are probably the ssp. levigata ( Geisthardt 1983) . Photographs of the male and female habitus are present in Berger et al. (2021).