Tolphorea turcica Platia and Gudenzi, 2000

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Tolphorea turcica Platia and Gudenzi, 2000 ( Figs. 2 , 7 )

This species was described by Platia and Gudenzi (2000) based on a female.

Male Description. The male can be separated from the female by the shorter and narrower body; antennae exceeding posterior angles of pronotum by about 0.5 articles; pronotum slightly longer than wide and lower elytral:pronotal length ratio. The median lobe is clearly longer than the parameres ( Fig. 5 ) and the apex is pointed; sides of parameres are sinuate, without distal teeth, and apices of parameres are slightly pointed; basal piece ‘U’ shaped. Length 3.86 mm, width 1.27 mm. In comparison to drawings of the aedeagi of Tolphorea bicolor Cate, Platia, and Schimmel, 2002 and Tolphorea volans Gurjeva, 1983 ( Cate et al. 2002) and a description of the aedeagus of Tolphorea pallida Platia, 2003 ( Platia 2004) , male specimens of T. turcica are distinctly differentiated by the absence of distal teeth on the parameres.

Locality Record. 1 male: Adıyaman: Gölbaşı Boruk mountain, (37°53′08″N 37°43′04″E), 1,100 m, 02.V.2008, leg. E. Yağmur. Also known from the holotype female: Adıyaman: Nemrut mountain , 1,700 m, 13–15.V.1997, leg. G. Magnani (Platia and Gudenzi 2000) .

World Distribution. Turkey ( Cate 2007; Mertlik and Platia 2008).

6) Female anal sternite. Scale = 1 mm.

Notes. There are three species of Tolphorea Gurjeva, 1983 in Turkey (Mertlik and Platia 2008). Platia and Gudenzi (2000) described T. turcica from only a single female specimen.

Figures

Figs. 1–4. 1) Craspedostethus dilutus (habitus, male) (scale = 1 mm); 2) Tolphorea turcica. (habitus, male) (scale = 1 mm); 3) Anostirus purpureus (habitus, male) (scale = 2 mm); 4) Peripontius jagemanni (habitus, male) (scale = 1 mm).

Fig. 7. Aedeagus (dorsal view) of Tolphorea turcica.

Figs. 5–6. Anostirus purpureus. 5) Male anal sternite;