Medythia sp.

Bezděk, Jan, 2012, Galerucinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Socotra Island, with a review of taxa recorded from Yemen, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52, pp. 403-428 : 426

Medythia sp.

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Material examined (1 spec.). YEMEN: Al Hudaydah gov., Jabal Bura valley forest NP (stream valley), 15°52.4–5′N 43°24.6–25.2′E, 240–350 m, at light, 4.xi.2010, 1 ♀, J. Hájek leg. ( NMPC).

Comments. Probably undescribed species, 3.3 mm long, characterised by completely orange body and legs (except of darkened apices of antennae and one longitudinal black stripe on each elytron). I am avoiding to describe it based on just one female.

All other Afrotropical Medythia Jacoby, 1887 species have a black head (or head and pronotum), usually bicolorous legs, and more extended black pattern on elytra (usually with black lateral margins or at least epipleura). Two widely distributed African Medythia occur also in Northeast Africa: M. quaterna (Fairmaire, 1880) recorded also from Yemen, and M. exclamationis (Jacoby, 1900) (known also from Ethiopia and Kenya). Both species differ from the Yemeni specimen in black antennae with yellow antennomeres IX–X and in subquadrate pronotum (in the Yemeni specimen lateral margins are slightly rounded, posterior margin is straight only in the middle, laterally it is widely rounded).

Figures

Figs.13–18.Habitus.13 – Monolepta suchomeli sp. nov.(paratype, male, 1.9 mm); 14 – M.hlavaci sp. nov.(paratype, male, 2.9 mm); 15 – M. hlavaci sp. nov. (black form) (paratype, female, 2.8 mm); 16 – M. kmenti sp. nov. (holotype, male, 3.1 mm); 17 – Madurasia obscurella Jacoby, 1896 (female, 2.7 mm); 18 – Medythia sp. (female, 3.3 mm).