Eutheia schaumii Kiesenwetter (Staphylinidae) from Ireland

摘要

Johnson & Halbert (1902) listed Eutheia plicata Gyllenhal as occurring in Ireland on the basis of a record from Hollywood, Co. Down, cited from a manuscript list of Irish insects prepared by Alexander Haliday in the nineteenth century. They stated that "Haliday's specimens are in the Dublin Museum" (now the National Museum of Ireland (NMI)). Allen (1969) suggested the possibility that some old records of plicata might actually be E. schaumii Kiesenwetter, and, as plicata remains on the Irish list (Anderson et al., 1997), the NMI material was re-examined. There is a single Irish specimen standing over the name E. plicata in the NMI collection; this is labelled "Hday" and "Given by Trin. Coll. Dublin" (Haliday's collection was donated by Trinity College Dublin to the NMI in 1882 (O'Connor & Nash, 1982), hence the latter label). The specimen was determined as, indeed, E. schaumii, using Franz & Besuchet (1971). In Haliday's MS list of Irish insects (p. 32), the entry for plicata reads as follows: "truncatella Er. = plicata Gyll. ['certainly Irish' icon], ha [=Haliday], Hwd [= Holywood]". No other entries are given under Eutheia, with which this record might have been confused. As there appear to be no further records of E. plicata from Ireland, this species should be replaced by E. schaumii on the Irish list.