Calyptopsis armeniaca Baudi di Selve, 1874

Chigray, Svetlana, Nabozhenko, Maxim, Keskin, Bekir & Abdurakhmanov, Gayirbeg, 2018, Taxonomic review of the genus Calyptopsis of Turkey and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tentyriini), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 58 (2), pp. 331-346 : 336

Calyptopsis armeniaca Baudi di Selve, 1874

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Calyptopsis harpaloides ? var. armeniaca Baudi di Selve, 1874: 97 (original description). BAUDI DI SELVE (1875): 34 (description); REITTER (1897): 309 (noted); REITTER (1900): 135 (noted).

Calyptopsis armeniaca: ABDURAKHMANOV & NABOZHENKO (2011) : 180 (species incertae sedis).

Type material. SYNTYPES: 1♁ 1♀, ‘ Armenia / Russia / Viag. Doria 1862 // Typus // Calypt. harpaloides var. armeniaca Baudi. ’ ( MSNG): ♁ with additional label: ‘ var. armeniaca .’

Comments. This taxon was described as a variety of Calyptopsis harpaloides and subsequent authors interpreted the taxon in the same way (e.g. REITTER 1897). LÖBL et al. (2008) informally synonymized C. armeniaca as they listed it as a junior synonym of Calyptopsis harpaloides Baudi di Selve, 1874 without any comments. ABDURAKHMANOV & NABOZHENKO (2011) discussed this taxon and gave it species status with unclear position. We studied types and additional material of C. harpaloides from Northern Iran (which will be published in a revision of Iranian species of Calyptopsis ) and C. harpaloides armeniaca from ‘Armenian Russia’ and suggested that the latter is a distinct separate species, which occurs probably in Eastern Anatolia. Large material collected during multiple Russian and Soviet expeditions (deposited in ZIN, Moscow State University, Institute of Zoology of Armenia, and Georgian Natural Museum Tbilisi) to present day territory of Armenia did not contain this species. Russian Empire included some territories of modern Turkey in 1862 (Kars Province, parts of Igdır, Agrı, Ardahan, and Artvin provinces) ( BEZUGOLNY et al. 2012). Calyptopsis armeniaca probably occurs in these territories of present day Turkey.

Distribution. Eastern Anatolia (ABDURAKHMANOV & NABOZHENKO 2011).

Figures

Fig. 5. Calyptopsis spp., habitus and details of structure.A – C.armeniaca Baudi di Selve, 1874, syntype,♁; B – C. armeniaca, syntype,♀; C–G – C. ottoi sp. nov.: C – ♀ (Van, Erek Dağ); D – head; E – ♁ (Van, Görentaş); F – ♀ (Van, Görentaş); G – ♀ (Hakkari, Berçelan).