Lacon punctatus ( Herbst, 1779 ), 1926

Kotru, Akash, Chandran, Nithya, Dubey, Anil Kumar & Prosvirov, Alexander S., 2025, A catalogue of Indian Agrypninae Candèze, 1857 (Coleoptera: Elateridae), Zootaxa 5614 (1), pp. 1-66 : 32

Lacon punctatus ( Herbst, 1779)

Elater punctatus Herbst, 1779: 316 .

Adelocera punctatus (Herbst) Seidlitz, 1888: 168 .

Lacon punctatus (Herbst) Fleutiaux, 1926: 94 .

For more information, including synonyms, see Hayek (1973), Cate (2007), and Kundrata et al. (2019b).

Type depository. Type not examined ( Hayek, 1973)

Type locality. Unknown.

Literature. Herbst (1779: 316): original description; Seidlitz (1888: 168): combination; Fleutiaux (1926: 94): combination.

Distribution. India: Jammu and Kashmir. Elsewhere: Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine ( Cate 2007, Ptashkovsky 2009, Akhter et al. 2012 a, Naz et al. 2012, Kovács and Merkl 2013, Kovács et al. 2014, Mardjanyan and Barimani Varandi 2014, Platia 2014, Kundrata et al. 2019 b, Németh et al. 2020).

Remarks. It should be noted that this species represents two sub species viz., L. punctatus punctatus and L. punctatus oblongus . Out of which, only one sub species namely, L. punctatus oblongus reported from Kashmir (Jammu and Kashmir) from India ( Della Beffa, 1931).