Kundrata Robin, Mertlik Josef, Németh Tamás
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Palacky University, 17. listopadu 50, CZ-77146 Olomouc, Czech Republic..
Zootaxa. 2019 Oct 3;4679(3):zootaxa.4679.3.1. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4679.3.1.
The species of genus Lacon Laporte, 1838 from the Levant are taxonomically revised. Currently, 18 species are known from the area covering the island of Cyprus and mainland from Hatay province of Turkey to Israel. Six species are described as new for science: Lacon mucheibensis sp. nov. (Israel), L. qatanensis sp. nov. (Syria), L. platiai sp. nov. (Jordan), L. safitensis sp. nov. (Syria), L. tafilensis sp. nov. (Jordan), and L. zenobiae sp. nov. (Lebanon, Syria). Lacon freidbergi Platia, 2010 is synonymized with L. lithophilus (Candèze, 1857), and L. kapleri Platia Schimmel, 1994 with L. graecus (Candèze, 1857). Lacon drusus (Marseul, 1870) is recorded for the first time from Israel. Lacon lithophilus is recorded for the first time from Israel and Jordan. Lacon graecus is removed from the fauna of Levant, because all earlier reports of this species from Lebanon and Syria were based on misidentifications. Figures of habitus and main diagnostic features are provided for all species and an identification key to the Lacon species of the Levant is given.
对1838年拉波特所定的来自黎凡特地区的拉孔属物种进行了分类学修订。目前，已知在从塞浦路斯岛以及从土耳其哈塔伊省到以色列的大陆这一区域内有18个物种。描述了6个新的科学物种：穆谢伊本斯拉孔新种（以色列）、卡塔内斯拉孔新种（叙利亚）、普拉蒂亚拉孔新种（约旦）、萨菲特斯拉孔新种（叙利亚）、塔菲勒斯拉孔新种（约旦）和泽诺比亚拉孔新种（黎巴嫩、叙利亚）。2010年的弗里德伯格拉孔被定为嗜石拉孔（坎德泽，1857年）的同物异名，1994年的卡普勒斯拉孔被定为希腊拉孔（坎德泽，1857年）的同物异名。德鲁苏斯拉孔（马尔瑟尔，1870年）首次在以色列被记录。嗜石拉孔首次在以色列和约旦被记录。希腊拉孔从黎凡特动物区系中移除，因为此前所有来自黎巴嫩和叙利亚的该物种报告均基于错误鉴定。提供了所有物种的外形和主要诊断特征图，并给出了黎凡特拉孔属物种的检索表。
