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Klug (1814 : 69). The other male apparently belongs to the 'minor' form of 

 Fabricius (1804 : 170) and as such is labelled as paralectotype of dispar, as well as 

 holotype of L. fabricii West wood, because the latter name was based on it. It is 

 the same as L. brevicauda Fabricius (see p. 141). 



L. intermedia Spinola. The name is preoccupied by L. intermedia Illiger, 1807: 

 130. There are no original specimens in the Spinola collection, but two females, 

 labelled as such, were sent by Spinola to the Berlin Museum and are preserved 

 there. At least one of them was examined by Westwood who, aware of the 

 homonymy, proposed for them L. spinolae as a replacement name (1839 : 262). 

 I selected one of them as lectotype. It is labelled 'Spinola S.' (= Spinola sent), 

 not 'Rossi S.' as with the specimens from Rossius. I stress this because Klug 

 (1814 : 68) mentioned two similar specimens received from Rossius ('in Coll. 

 Hoffmannsegg'; now MNHU, Berlin) which are not identical with the two syntypes 

 of intermedia Spinola; they should have the ovipositor slightly shorter. 



L. fuesslini. Neither of the two original specimens could be traced, but there 

 is no doubt that it is another synonym of L. dorsigera, as placed by Dalla Torre 

 (1898 : 409). Hagenbach referred also to fig. 11 in Fuessly, 1783 and refuted 

 Klug's suspicion (1814 : 70) that it might be his L. bifasciata. 



L. assimilis. Lectotype selected from two syntypes. The name was correctly 

 synonymized with L. dorsigera by Schletterer (1890 : 186, 191), along with the 

 following one. 



L. sicelis. Three syntypes; the one bearing the correct labels and fitting the 

 description best is selected as lectotype. 



L. ligustica, as well as L. coelogaster Gmelin and L. spinolae Westwood, are 

 replacement names for synonyms of L. dorsigera. 



L. scutellata. The single preserved type is an extensively yellow dorsigera, as 

 recognised already by Schletterer (1880 : 191). 



L. vicina. The original specimen (s) could not be traced in the remnants of 

 the Fonscolombe Collection in MNHN, Paris and the species was not in the part 

 of the collection in Aix-en-Provence in 1850 (Schulz, 1911 : 75, 220). Fonscolombe 

 himself regarded vicina as probable male sex of what he called L. intermedia 

 (1832 : 274; misidentification) , i.e. the present L. dorsigera. From reading the 

 description I have no doubt that it was dorsigera, as suggested also by Berland 

 (19346 : 69). L. vicina was overlooked by Schletterer (1890). 



L. algirica. The only specimen preserved is designated as lectotype. As 

 Schletterer assumed it is a bigger-sized dorsigera. 



L. lepida. A couple from the original material is preserved in the MCSN, Genoa, 

 where I designated the female as lectotype. It was presented by Chevrier to 

 Gribodo and no other Chevrier syntypes could be traced. Schletterer (1890) 

 synonymized lepida with dorsigera, which was confirmed by Masi (1935 : 42). 



L. turkestanica. The apparently single original specimen is designated as lectotype. 

 Schletterer (1890 : 187, 192) presumed that this might be only a form of L. dorsigera. 

 Later on Shestakov (1923 : 99) regarded it as a subspecies of dorsigera and more 

 recently Nikolskaya (1952 : 80) and Boucek (1956 : 250; 1959 : 436, 438, 440) 

 accepted it as a good species. Nikolskaya (i960: figs 133, 134) shows some slight 



