Simaphylax altuspyrenaicus

Simaphylax altuspyrenaicus (Botosaneanu, 1994) = Melampophylax mucoreus (Hagen, 1861) in Lavandier (1979). DIFF. According to Botosaneanu (1994), many specimens historically identified as M. mucoreus in the Pyrenees are M. altuspyrenaicus. Then, Oláh et al. (2019) divided the genus Melampophylax in two and described a new genus, Simaphylax Oláh, 2019. Thus, Melampophylax altuspyrenaicus becomes Simaphylax altuspyrenaicus. The same applies for other known French species: Simaphylax cantalicus (Botosaneanu, 1994); Simaphylax keses (Coppa & Oláh, 2015); Simaphylax mucoreus (Hagen, 1861); and Simaphylax orientalopyrenaeus (Coppa, 2017). Later, Oláh et al. (2022) described three new species of Simaphylax present in France in the Pyrenees: Simaphylax andorricus Oláh & Vinçon, 2022; Simaphylax ariegeus Oláh, Kovács & Vinçon, 2022; and Simaphylax coppai Oláh & Vinçon, 2022. Nevertheless, given that the holotype of M. altuspyrenaicus comes from Estaragne catchment and is from a collection by Décamps identified as M. mucoreus (Botosaneanu, 1994), we suggest to change Lavandier’s M. mucoreus to S. altuspyrenaicus. Furthermore, the only species of this genus identified in 2022 is S. altuspyrenaicus.