Neatus picipes ( Herbst, 1797 )

Soldati, Fabien, Leo, Piero, Jansson, Nicklas, Avci, Mustafa, Coşkun, Mustafa & Kayiş, Tamer, 2025, A new species of the genus Neatus J. L. Leconte, 1862 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tenebrionini) from Türkiye, with new country records and a key to holarctic species, Zootaxa 5659 (2), pp. 179-190 : 186

Neatus picipes ( Herbst, 1797)

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Type locality: “Deutschland”, described from Germany ( Herbst 1797).

Studied material. Bulgaria.— Isskar valley, N Passarell vill., 710 m, 14-VII to 9-VIII-2005, E. Migliaccio, 1 ♂ (EM). Srandzha Mts., E Kondolovo vill., 300 m, 28-VIII to 11-XI-2005, E. Migliaccio, 1 ♀ (EM). Czech Republic.— Moravia, Břeclav, 31-III-2002, P. Čekovski, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( PL) . Idem , 15-VI-2005, R. Fornosek, 1 ♂ ( FS) . Idem , 30-VI-1997, K. Hlavenka, 1 ♂ ( FS) . Greece.— Kilkis, Kavaláris , 01-VII-2001, C. Cocquempot, 1 ♂ ( FS) . Thessalia, Larissa, Stomio , 90 m, 2-VIII-2006, D. Sechi, 1 ♂ ( PL) . France.— Allier, Châtel-de-Neuvre , 28-III-2012, 5-IV-2012, 31-V-2012, L. Velle, 5 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀ ( FS, LV) . Toulon-sur-Allier , 23-IX-2014, 24-VII-2015, L. Velle, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (LV) . Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Niozelles , XI-1997, A. Coache, 1 ♀ ( AC) . Bouches-du-Rhône, Arles , la Tour-du-Valat, 12-VI-1983, J. F. Voisin ( MNHN) . Bouches-du-Rhône, Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, Cadarache forest , 5-VII-2011, T. Barnouin, T. Noblecourt & F. Soldati, 1 ♀ ( LNEF-ONF) . Lot-et-Garonne, Houeillès , 19-IV-2016, 8-VIII-2016, C. Van Meer, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( CVM) . Var, Les Mayons , 15-VIII-1997, H. Brustel, 4 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ (HB, FS) . Italy.— Emilia Romagna, near Modena , 15-IV-1978, Malferrari, 1 ♂ ( LS) . Emilia Romagna, Ravenna, Bagnacavallo , 7-XI-1968, E. Contarini, 1 ♂ ( PL) . Emilia Romagna, Ravenna, Pineta S. Vitale , 30-III-1985, L. Saltini, 1 ♀ ( PL) . Idem , 29-VI-2002, N. Cuffiani, 1 ♂ ( PL) . Emilia Romagna, Reggio Emilia, Villa Gaida , 3-XII-2011, M. Violi, 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀ ( PL) . Poland.— Rogalin ad Poznań , 22-VI-1997, P. Jaloszińsky, 2 ♀♀ ( PL) . Romania.— Dolj, Craiova , 1-V-1994, 26-VII-2005, F. Soldati, 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( FS) . Idem , VII-1995, F. Soldati, 1 ♂ ( FS) . Giurgiu, Comana VlaŞca , without date, A. P. Montandon, 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ ( MNHN) . Slovakia.— Bratislava, surroundings of Malacky , 3-VII-1997, K. Hlavenka, 1 ♂ ( FS) . Switzerland.— Genève, 13-I-1978, P. Verkaik, 1 ♀ ( FS) .

Geographical distribution: Middle Europe and western Asia, from SW France ( Van Meer & Bouyon 2019) to Russia. Europe: Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland and Ukraine; Asia: Kazakhstan, NE China, South Korea, western Siberia and Nearctic Region ( Iwan et al. 2020). Records from Denmark and Great Britain are erroneous, the species being not reported by Hansen (1996) and Barclay (2012) respectively. The ones of NE China, South Korea and Nearctic Region are due to confusions with Neatus ventralis and N. tenebrioides . In Italy, N. picipes only occurs in the NE of the country ( Aliquó et al. 2007) and in Poland, the species is not rare but mainly localized along large rivers ( Iwan et al. 2012).

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FIGURES 1–6. Habitus (♂). 1: Neatus noctivagus (15.5 mm). 2: N. picipes (14 mm). 3: N. subaequalis (15 mm). 4: N. tenebrioides (11.5 mm). 5: N. turcicus (15.5 mm). 6: N. ventralis (15 mm). Habitus lengths are given in brackets.