Microhoria petraea (Pic, 1902)

Telnov, Dmitry, 2022, Revisional notes on the genus Microhoria Chevrolat, 1877 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthicidae) from the Eastern Mediterranean and Turkey, with new descriptions, an annotated catalogue, and a key, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 22 (2), pp. 195-312 : 272

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scientific name	Microhoria petraea (Pic, 1902)
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Anthicus petraeus Pic, 1902b: 187 (description).

Anthicus petraeus – Pic 1911a: 67 (checklist, record – “Arabia”); Bodenheimer 1937: 134 (checklist, biogeography).

Anthicus (Immicrohoria) petraeus – Winkler 1927: 849 (checklist).

Microhoria petraea – Uhmann et al. 2005: 4, (new combination, biogeography, erroneously mentioned “Petra in southern Jordan ” as the type locality); Chandler et al. 2008: 442 (checklist); Kejval & Chandler 2020: 131 (assigned to the M. terminata species group); Telnov 2020a: 612 (checklist).

Type material. Not studied.

New material. Not available.

Supplementary description of this species is not yet possible. According to the original description, this is moderately large Microhoria of total body length 3 mm, with dorsally rufous forebody and dark elytra with rufous humeri, that externally resembles the Cypriot endemic M. gorgus (Pic 1902) . However, according to the original description, the colouration of M. petraea either resembles some specimens of M. breviuscula ( Desbrochers des Loges, 1875) and M. terminata (W.L.E. Schmidt, 1842) rather than M. gorgus .

Ecology. Unknown.

Distribution. Israel, Jordan, SaudiArabia. This species is originally described from “Arabia Petraea” (that once included Jordan, southern Levant, Sinai Peninsula, and NW Saudi Arabia) without exact locality.

Chorotype. SWAsiatic (1.13 SWA).

References

Bodenheimer F. S. 1937. Prodromus Faunae Palestinae. Essai sur les elements zoogeographiques et historiques du sud-ouest du sous-regne palearctique. Memoires presentes a l'Institut d'Egypte. 33: pp. ii + 286.

Desbrochers des Loges J. 1875. Anthicides nouveaux: 42 - 49. In: Opuscules Entomologiques (Coleopteres). 1 er Cahier (1874 - 1875). A. Gaudon, Paris. pp. 56.

Kejval Z., Chandler D. S. 2020. Generic revision of the Microhoriini with new species and synonymies from the Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera: Anthicidae). Acta entomologica musei nationalis pragae. 60, No. 1: 95 - 154.

Pic M. 1902 b. Anthicides recueillis en Orient par M. Paul de Peyerimhoff [Col.]. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France [1902]: 185 - 187.

Pic M. 1911 a. Anthicidae; Pars 36. In: Schenkling S. (ed.): Coleopterorum Catalogus. W. Junk, Berlin. pp. 102.

Schmidt W. L. E. 1842. Die europaischen Arten der Gattung Anthicus Fbr. Entomologische Zeitung [Stettin]. 3: 193 - 200.

Telnov D. 2020 a. Family Anthicidae Latreille, 1819: 575 - 625. In: Iwan D., Lobl I. (eds.): Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 5. Revised and Updated Second Edition. Tenebrionoidea. Brill, Leiden & Boston. pp. xxiv + 945.

Uhmann G., Chikatunov V., Pavlieek T. 2005. Catalogue of the beetles (Coleoptera) in Israel and adjacent areas: 4. Anthicidae. Biocosme Mesogeen. 22 No. 1: 1 - 64.