Carabus (Morphocarabus) kollari ssp. semetricus Kraatz, 1878 bona sp.

Distribution: East part of Serbian Banat (foothills of West Carpathian range). The areal border with nominal ssp. kollari Palliardi, 1825 is not clear in the Romanian part of Banat.

Habitat: light groves with plenty of bushy vegetation, southern exposure.

Diversity: Phenotypically, semetricus populations and nominal ssp. kollari (loc. typicus Mehadia) are very similar. The differences occur in specimen size, while the differences in elytrae sculpture although present are less pronounced. However, the endophallus morphology differentiates between semetrica and kollari. On the contrary, in the populations designated as comptus hampei and comptus incompsus there is a significant difference in elytrae sculpture in regard to semetricus and kollari. However, phylogenetically, the representatives of comptus species (= rothi according to Deuve, 1994), studied from the standpoint of endophalis morphology, by their type nevertheless belong to kollari species.

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