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

CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE SUBSPECIES In the genus Carabus the statuses of infraspecific names are rather arbitrary. A great variety of hierarchic systems were created in order to maintain the usage of names possibly important in local faunistic views only. Between the subspecies accepted by us as valid there was no significant difference in the structures of the inner sac (considered by us as a criterion of being a valid species). Therefore these taxa are distinguished by external morphological characters only. The listed locality data and the map of distribution (Fig. 1) are sourced from the collections of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, the private collection of I. RETEZÁR (Budapest, Hungary) and the comprehensive work of LIE & KLEINFELD (2001 ). Fig. 1. Distribution of Carabus (Morphocarabus) hampei KÜSTER, 1846 and C. (M.) incompsus KRAATZ, 1880 in the Carpathian Basin, • = C. (M.) hampei hampei KÜSTER, 1846 (= C. (M.) hampei marusii ORMAY, 1890), A = C. (M.) hampei mendax CSIKI, 1906, • = C. (M.) hampei spectabilis CSIKI, 1906, • = C. (M.) hampeigutiiensis TAKÁCS et LIE, 1992, • = C. (M.) hampei ormayi REITTER, 1896, X = C (M.) hampei dacicus CSIKI, 1906, • = C. (M.) hampei eximius CSIKI, 1906 (= C. (M.) hampei zilahiensis CSIKI, 1906), * = C. (M.) hampei diffinis CSIKI, 1906, © = C. (M.) hampei hunyadensis CSIKI, 1906, • = C. (M.) hampeipraedacicus LIE, 1992, + = C. (M.) hampei mehelyanus CSIKI, 1906, • = C. (M.) incompsus KRAATZ, 1880