The Danacea of the Balkan Peninsula. A revision (Coleoptera Dasytidae)

This paper revises the systematics and taxonomy of genus Danacea Laporte de Castelnau, 1838 in the Balkan Peninsula. The territory here considered includes Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Serbia, Turkey (European). Determination keys, drawings of the median lobe of the aedeagus, description and distributional information are reported for each species. Twelve new species or subspecies are described: D. angelinii n. sp. of Ipiros (Greece), D. brattiana n. sp. of Bracˇ island (Croatia), D. colligens n. sp. of the Peloponnese (Greece), D. iadrensis n. sp. of the Zadar area (Croatia), D. kydoniae n. sp. of western Crete, D. latipennis ssp. occidua n. of western Crete, D. messenica n. sp. of the Peloponnese, D. montalbidi n. sp. of western Crete, D. oliveti n. sp. of Fokida (Greece), D. pagasaica n. sp. of Thessalia (Greece), D. quintilis n. sp. of Bulgaria, D. sithoniae n. sp. of the Halkidiki peninsula (Greece). Three changes of status are proposed: D. cephalonica Pic, 1901, which was described as a variety of D. mutata Pic, 1895, is a good species; D. purkynei Obenberger, 1916 described as a good species, is a subspecies of D. iners Kiesenwetter; 1859; D. maculipennis Pic, 1899 described as a variety of D. marginata (Kuester, 1851), is a good species. The following new synonymies are proposed: D. cylindricollis Schilsky, 1897, D. insularis Schilsky, 1897 and D. maculicornis Pic, 1914: all synonyms of D. bleusei Pic, 1895; D. cervina ssp. montenegrina Apfelbeck, 1911, D. cervina ssp. vulpina Apfelbeck, 1911, D. intermedia Apfelbeck, 1911, D. valonensis Apfelbeck, 1911: all synonyms of D. cervina (Kuester; 1850); D. obscura Schilsky, 1897 synonym of D. championi Marseul, 1878; D. ganglbaueri Prochàzka, 1894 synonym of D. cretica Kiesenwetter, 1859; D. bulgarica Pic, 1902, D. monastirensis Pic, 1917, D. opulenta Schilsky, 1897, D. posterecta Pic, 1902, D. rambouseki Roubal, 1909, D. serbica Kiesenwetter, 1863: all synonyms of D. iners Kiesenwetter, 1859; D. winneguthi Apfelbeck, 1911 synonym of D. major Pic, 1902; D. amabilis Sahlberg, 1903 synonym of D. marginata (Kuester; 1851); D. zharadniki Nigrin, 1986 synonym of D. maculipennis Pic, 1899; D. bosnica Pic, 1913 synonym of D. nigritarsis ssp. nigritarsis (Kuester, 1850); D. consimilis Schilsky, 1897 synonym of D. oertzeni Schilsky, 1897; D. albanica Apfelbeck, 1911 synonym of D. pallidipalpis Abeille, 1894; D. cervina var. diversipes Pic, 1936 synonym of D. thessalonicensis Apfelbeck, 1911; D. syrensis Pic, 1910 synonym of D. vitticollis Schilsky, 1897. The following names have not been associated with certainty to a known species and remain doubtful: D. krueperi ssp. varipes Schilsky, 1897, D. limbata Schilsky, 1897, D. parnassia Schilsky, 1897, D. rostrata Prochàzka, 1894, D. shardagensis Apfelbeck, 1918. However the Balkan peninsula has not been sufficiently explored, several new species are expected to remain undiscovered and the distribution range of the known species has not been sufficiently defined.