O. Merkl szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 68. (Budapest, 2007)

FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK Volume 68 2007 pp. 71-80. Subspecies of Carabus (Morphocarabus) hampei Küster, 1846 in the Carpathian Basin (Coleoptera: Carabidae) GY. SZÉL

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, A. TAKÁCS

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, P. LIE

3 & I. RETEZÁR

4 Departement of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, H1088 Budapest, Baross u. 13, Hungary. E-mail: szel@zoo.zoo.nhmus.hu R-450075 Zaläu, str. T. Vladimirescu 36, Romania 3

R-905505 Lugoj, str. Cernei33, Romania 4

H-1115 Budapest, Bartók Béla út 86, Hungary. E-mail: retezar@t-online.hu Abstract - The subspecies of Carabus (Morphocarabus) hampei KÜSTER, 1846 are discussed, their distributions are detailed in three countries in the Carpathian Basin. Of the 16 recognized subspecies only 11 are accepted as valid. Carabus hampei is one of the six strictly protected beetle species in Hungary. All the known localities are listed and mapped. With 15 figures. Key words - Carabus, Morphocarabus, hampei, subspecies, Hungary, Ukraine, Romania. INTRODUCTION The number of accepted species in the subgenus Morphocarabus GÉHIN, 1976 varies greatly between authors. Without trying to provide a complete list, CSIKI (1906b, 1946) mentions six species (C. comptus DEJEAN, 1831, C. hampei KÜSTER, 1846, C. rothi DEJEAN, 1829, Carabus scheidleri PANZER, 1799, C. kollárt PALLIARDI, 1825, C. zawadzkii KRAATZ, 1854) in the Carpathian Basin. LÖBL & SMETANA (2003) in their Palaearctic catalogue list three species (C. eximius CSIKI, 1906, C. rothi, C. scheidleri) from this area. Of the more recent works, entirely different views are published in TURIN et al (2003) where seven species are mentioned: C. comptus, C. excellens FABRICIUS, 1801, C. hampei, C. kollari, C. rothi, C. scheidleri and C. zawadzkii. In the comprehensive work of LORENZ (2005) there are six species: C. excellens, C. kollari, C. praecellens, C. rothi, C. scheidleri, C. zawadzkii, while comptus, hampei and incompsus KRAATZ, 1880 are considered as subspecies of C. rothi. DEUVE (2004) accepts only