Cerocoma (Meloides) adamovichiana ( Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783 )

Turco, Federica & Bologna, Marco A., 2011, Systematic revision of the genus Cerocoma Geoffroy, 1762 (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Cerocomini) 2853, Zootaxa 2853 (1), pp. 1-71 : 27-29

Cerocoma (Meloides) adamovichiana ( Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783)

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Meloides adamovichiana Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783: 39 .

Cerocoma schraderi Kraatz, 1863: 111 .

Cerocoma muehlfeldi var. cuprea Baudi, 1878b: 359 . syn. n.

Cerocoma muehlfeldi var. schraderi, Reitter, 1885: 13 ; Reitter, 1913: 192.

Cerocoma muehlfeldi ssp. schraderi, Mařan, 1944: 91 .

Cerocoma muehlfeldi ab. imitatrix Mařan, 1944: 91, 100.

Cerocoma (Cerocoma) adamovichiana, Kaszab, 1951: 263 , 267, 271; Bologna, 1991: 158 (pars).

Cerocoma (Meloides) adamovichiana, Dvořák, 1990: 2 .

Type locality. “Slavonia” ( Piller & Mitterpacher 1783). This is an old name for eastern Croatia.

Type specimens. Types of C. adamovichiana were not found and may be lost; types of C. schraderi were also not examined. Five type specimens of the synonyms C. muehlfeldi var. cuprea (4 syntypes, herein designated as lectotype and paralectotypes) and C. muehlfeldi imitatrix (the holotype) have been studied.

Lectotype ♂: ♂ (white, handwritten) // C. Muhlfeldii / var. cuprea / Dahl. (white, handwritten) // LECTOTY- PUS / Cerocoma / muehl - / feldi var. cuprea / Baudi / M. Bologna des. 2007 (red, printed and handwritten) // Cerocoma / adamovichiana / ( Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783) / Federica TURCO det. 2005 (white, printed and handwritten) ( MRSN ex coll. Baudi).

1 paralectotype ♀: ♀ (white, handwritten) // PARALECTOTYPUS / Cerocoma / muehl- / feldi var. cuprea / Baudi / M. Bologna des. 2007 (red, printed and handwritten) ( MRSN ex coll. Baudi).

1 paralectotype ♀: PARALECTOTYPUS / Cerocoma / muehl- / feldi var. cuprea / Baudi / M. Bologna des. 2007 (red, printed and handwritten) ( MRSN ex coll. Baudi).

1 paralectotype ♀: PARALECTOTYPUS / Cerocoma / muehl- / feldi var. cuprea / Baudi / M. Bologna des. 2007 (red, printed and handwritten) // Cerocoma / adamovichiana / ( Piller & Mitterpacher, 1783) / Federica Turco det. 2005 (white, printed and handwritten) ( MRSN ex coll. Baudi).

Holotype ♂: Petrič Mac. / Vil. Mař. Táb. (white, printed) // TYPUS (pink, printed) // Cerocoma / mühlfeldi ab. / imitatrix / Dr. Mařan det. m. (white, printed and handwritten) // Cer. Adamovichi- / ana Pill. Mitt. / det. M. Dvořák, 87 (white, printed) ( CNM). Genitalia on a separate card. Last abdominal segment missing.

Description. Male. Body metallic green with long, sparse, yellowish setae, denser on head and thorax; legs, antennae and mouthparts, including maxillary palpi, yellow-orange; frontal calli metallic green, except for the anteriormost internal margins orange; narrow orange spot in the area between frontal calli, wider posteriad.

Head transverse with slightly protruding eyes ( Fig. 5D ). Maxillary palpi modified with palpomeres II–III particularly widened, II flattened and curved, III swollen and rounded on the external side; IV narrow at base and then abruptly widened at apex ( Fig. 3N ). Antennae obviously modified with antennomere I bearing a long, narrow and bent expansion on the external side and dorsal keel very wide and high, apically curved; III–VI bear long and variously shaped ventral expansions; V with short setae on distal face of ventral laminar expansion; VI with a tuft of very long and erect yellowish setae on ventral side and a very long, narrow and curved expansion on ventral side; IX transverse, apically rounded, dorsally slightly flattened and dorsal edge weakly bilobate ( Fig. 2N ).

Pronotum elongate. Protibiae with high and slightly rounded dorsal keel ( Fig. 4N ). Protarsomeres slightly dorso-ventrally flattened; II with an obvious dorsal bulge; protarsomere III shorter than V, excluding claws.

Gonostyli, in lateral view, slightly curved, with apical lobes dorsally directed; apical lobes, in dorsal view, swollen and parallel. Apex of aedeagus pointed; aedeagal hooks equal in size. Sclerotised hooks of endophallus subequal in size (the apical slightly larger), both pointing outwards ( Fig. 6N ).

Female. Not modified. Refer to key for diagnostic characters.

Taxonomy. The elytral colouration of this species is slightly variable, with some specimens from Greece showing cupreous reflections.

Distribution. Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey (also Thrace), Georgia.

Cerocoma (Meloides) albopilosa Dvo ř ák, 1993

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Cerocoma albopilosa Dvořák, 1993: 7 . Type locality. “ Iran mer. or., 30 km N Bampur” ( Dvořák 1993).

Type specimens. Holotype, allotype, and 3 paratypes have been studied:

Holotype ♂: SE Iran / 30 Km N Bampur / 12– 13.4.1973 (white, printed) // Loc. no.159 / Exp. Nat. Mus./Praha (white, printed) // holotypus (red, printed) // Cerocoma / albopilosa sp. n. /det. M. Dvořák, 92 (white, printed) ( CNM). Last three left protarsomeres missing.

Allotype ♀: same labels as holotype, except for the third: allotypus (red, printed) ( CNM). Right antenna missing, except for the first two antennomeres.

Three paratypes, 2 ♀♀ and 1 ♂: same labels as holotype, except for the third: paratypus (red, printed) ( CNM). One female has only 2 left and 4 right antennomeres remaining; the other has only 2 antennomeres of both antennae reamining. Male last left antennomere is missing, as well as left protarsomeres and the last three left metatarsomeres .

Description. Male. Body metallic dark green; legs, antennae and mouthparts, including maxillary palpi, yellow-orange; frontal calli (except for internal and posterior margins) and area between calli orange.

Head transverse with slightly protruding eyes. Maxillary palpi ( Fig. 3H ) very wide with palpomere II very flattened and curved; III only slightly swollen and rounded on the external side; IV very long, slender and parallelsided (about 4.5x as long as wide). Antennae modified with antennomere I bearing a long, narrow and sinuate expansion on the external side and dorsal keel very high and curved; III–VI expanded ventrally and variously shaped; V with a tuft of very long and erect yellow setae and with short setae on distal face of ventral laminar expansion; VI with short yellow setae and a very long, narrow and curved expansion on ventral side; VIII completely rounded; IX transverse and rounded apically, swollen ventrally and slightly flattened dorsally ( Fig. 2H ).

Protibial dorsal keel short and slightly rounded in lateral view ( Fig. 4H ). Protarsomeres weakly dorso-ventrally flattened; II with an obvious dorsal bulge; protarsomere III about as long as V, excluding claws.

Gonostyli, in lateral view, straight, with apical lobes directed forward; apical lobes, in dorsal view, swollen and converging. Apex of aedeagus pointed; aedeagal hooks equal in size. Sclerotised hooks of endophallus subequal in size (the apical larger), the apical pointing outwards and the subapical backwards ( Fig. 6H ).

Female. Not distinctly modified. Refer to key for diagnostic characters.

Taxonomy. For taxonomic remarks see the discussion on C. longiseta (below).

Distribution. SW Turkey, SW Iran. The apparently disjunct distribution of C. albopilosa may be due to a lack of sampling in the intermediate area.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Male right antenna, lateral view: A, C. schreberi; B, C. martae; C, C. ephesica; D, C. prevezaensis; E, C. festiva; F, C. graeca; G, C. malatyensis; H, C. albopilosa; I, C. longiseta; J, C. barthelemyi; K, C. vahli; L, C. scovitzi; M, C. latreillei; N, C. adamovichiana; O, C. confusa; P, C. azurea; Q, C. turcica; R, C. muehlfeldi; S, C. schaefferi; T, C. prochaskana; U, C. dahli; V,C. bernhaueri; W, C. simplicicornis; X, C. gloriosa; Y, C. rapillyi; Z, C. marginiventris; AA, C. macedonica; AB, C. kunzei; AC, C. bodemeyeri. Scale bar = 1 mm.

FIGURE 3. Male right maxillary palp, dorsal view: for lettering refer to caption to Fig. 1. Scale bars = 1 mm (1: C–E, G–J, L– R, Y, AA–AC; 2: B, F, K, S–T, X, Z; 3: A, U–W).

FIGURE 4. Male right protibia, lateral view: for lettering refer to caption to Fig. 1. Scale bar = 1 mm.

FIGURE 5. Male head, dorsal view: A, C. schreberi; B, C. scovitzi; C, C. vahli; D, C. adamovichiana; E, C. kunzei; F, C. schaefferi. Scale bar = 1 mm.

FIGURE 6. Male external genitalia (from left to right: tegmen, dorsal and lateral views; aedeagus, lateral view): for lettering refer to caption to Fig. 1. Scale bars = 1 mm (1: A–E, H, L–M, R; 2: F–G, I–K, N–P, S–T, X–Y, AA–AC; 3: Q, U–W, Z).