Lissonota carbunculus Johansson, 2024

Lissonota carbunculus Johansson, 2024

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: S. Cantone, A. Di Giulio; individualCount: 23; sex: 3 females, 20 males; occurrenceID: 22FFCB71-F751-52B8-A5BF-7C7AE9A6CB2D; Location: country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Sicily; municipality: Sortino, Siracusa; locality: Riserva Naturale di Pantalica ; Identification: identifiedBy: F. Di Giovanni & N. Johansson; dateIdentified: 2025; Event: eventDate: 17/05/2023; year: 2023; month: 5; day: 17; Record Level: institutionCode: FDGC

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: S. Cantone, A. Di Giulio; individualCount: 2; sex: 2 females; occurrenceID: 638D6D50-5A81-5249-93F1-705D807BD386; Location: country: Italy; countryCode: IT; stateProvince: Sicily; municipality: Sortino, Siracusa; locality: Riserva Naturale di Pantalica ; Identification: identifiedBy: F. Di Giovanni & N. Johansson; dateIdentified: 2025; Event: eventDate: 17/06/2023; year: 2023; month: 6; day: 17; Record Level: institutionCode: FDGC

Distribution

Palaearctic (Western Palaearctic) ( Johansson 2024).

Notes

Species described from France and Sardinia ( Johansson 2024). This is the first record of the species for Sicily.

Diagnosis

Compared to the original description of the species ( Johansson 2024), the specimens examined show the following differences: the small central reddish spot on mesoscutum, as well as the reddish-yellow shoulder marks in males, sometimes lacking; the red margin on metasomal tergites III-IV in females more extensive, with sometimes metasomal tergite IV almost entirely red, except for black spots at the base laterally; meso- and metapleuron in males sometimes almost entirely black.