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the Rhine and Basel, although uncertain records from Austria, Hessen and Hannover are found in the literature. Amara (Zezea) strenua C. ZIMMERMANN, 1832 - It was listed by HORVATOVICH (1993) and ÁDÁM (1996), but there is no such specimen in the collection of HNHM. The specimens from Hungary identified as A strenua proved to be A. strandi LUTSHNIK, 1933 (=A. pseudostrenua KULT, 1946). According to HlEKE in MÜLLER-MOTZFELD (2004) it lives almost exclusively in Southern and Southwestern Europe, its distribution is discontinuous and restricted to the valleys of larger rivers (e.g. Rhône, Seine, Weser, Rhine, Elbe). It is surely absent from the Balkan Peninsula, Austria and Hungary. Dicheirotrichus obsoletus DEJEAN, 1829 (Fig. 12) - ÁDÁM (1996) listed it as a synonym of D. lacustris (L. REDTENBACHER, 1858) (Fig. 11), while SZÉL & BÉRCES (2002) treated D. lacustris as subspecies of D. obsoletus. According to LÖBL & SMETANA (2003) and MÜLLER-MOTZFELD (2004) they are separate species. This statement is confirmed by B. KATAEV (Saint-Petersburg, Russia, pers. comm.). In 2000 he checked all our (HNHM) specimens of Dicheirotrichus JACQUELIN DU VAL, 1857 from the Carpathian Basin, and ascertained that the specimens from Hungary belonged to D. lacustris, D. gustavii CROTCH, 1871 and D. rufithorax (SAHLBERG, 1827), but not to D. obsoletus. In LÖBL & SMETANA (2003) this species is not mentioned from Hungary, but from Albania, Belgium, Croatia, France, Great Britain, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain in Europe; Algeria, Canary Islands, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia from North Africa; Israel, Turkey from Asia. Dromius (Dromius) laeviceps MOTSCHULSKY, 1850-The original specimen on which the record of SZÉL (1999) was based on, was studied by V. KÖDÖBÖCZ (Debrecen, Hungary) in 2006, and determined as Dromius (Dromius) quadraticollis A. MORA WITZ, 1862. ÁDÁM (1996) mentioned D. laeviceps in brackets (meaning that it was not known by him from Hungary). According to MÜLLERMOTZFELD (2004) it occurs in the eastern part of Europe (mainly in the Czech Republic and Poland). The records from Europe (at least partly) refer to the rather common D. agilis (FABRICIUS, 1787). Harpalus (Harpalus) neglectus AUDINET-SERVILLE, 1821 - It was mentioned by CSIKI (1946) based on a specimen from Rákosfalva (now part of Budapest), but this is a misidentified Harpalus serripes (AUDINET-SERVILLE, 1821) (checked by GY. SZÉL in 2006). ÁDÁM (1996) and LÖBL & SMETANA (2003) also listed this species, probably adopting CsiKTs record. The species is widely distributed in Europe (MÜLLER-MOTZFELD 2004), so its occurrence in Hungary cannot be excluded, but at the moment no reliable record is available from the country.