identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
B207F220F1E95577B7986B2699E7085A.text	B207F220F1E95577B7986B2699E7085A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Luperus flaviceps Apfelbeck 1912	<div><p>Luperus flaviceps Apfelbeck, 1912</p><p>Type locality.</p><p>Bosnia and Herzegovina, Pale near Sarajevo.</p><p>Type material examined (via high-quality images of type specimens).</p><p>Bosnia and Herzegovina • 1 ♀, 1 ♂, syntypes; [Sarajevo region], Pale, “bei Saraj.” [near Sarajevo]; V. Apfelbeck leg.; National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo ; • 3 ♀♀, paratypes; [Sarajevo region], Pale, “bei Saraj.” [near Sarajevo]; V. Apfelbeck leg.; National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo .</p><p>Additional material examined.</p><p>Albania • 5 ♀♀, 1 ♂; Korçë County, Valamara mountain; alt. ~ 900 – ~ 1670 m; 25 Jun. 2025; M. Montagna and G. Magoga leg. • 1 ♀; Korçë County, Pepellash; alt. 1104 m; 27 Jun. 2025; M. Montagna and G. Magoga leg. • 1 ♀, 1 ♂; Korçë County, Radanj env., <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=20.619139&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=40.212055" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 20.619139/lat 40.212055)">Lengatices Valley</a>; [40°12'43.4"N, 20°37'08.9"E]; 2 Jun. 2013; P. Vonička leg.; det. J. Bezděk; collection of J. Bezděk, Brno, Czech Republic .</p><p>Morphology.</p><p>Body length. Male 3.9 mm; females 4.5–5.0 mm.</p><p>General habitus. Body elongate, weakly convex, glabrous and shiny. Elytra and ventral surface of body black, contrasting with pale yellow pronotum, head, and legs (Figs 3, 4).</p><p>Head. Slightly narrower than pronotum; in males, width across eyes exceeds that across pronotum. In males darkened, especially along inner margins of eyes; in females, entire head yellow, although frons may sometimes be slightly darker. Eyes large and prominent. Frontal ridge broad, weakly to moderately convex. Frontal calli large, moderately elevated and wide, smooth and shining, separated from each other and from frons by a deep furrow. Vertex smooth. Antennae filiform: in males slightly longer than body; body length equal to combined length of antennomeres I – X, antennomere XI extending beyond body length; in females distinctly shorter, reaching about 3 / 4 of body length. Antennomeres I – III pale, IV slightly darkened ventrally, V – XI darkened.</p><p>Pronotum. Nearly rectangular, weakly convex, 1.5 times wider than long. Surface smooth and glabrous, with sparse, very fine punctures; lateral margins slightly rounded; all margins bordered. Anterior and posterior angles protruding.</p><p>Scutellum subtriangular, glabrous, and shining.</p><p>Elytra. Elongate, parallel-sided, 0.75 times as long as the body and 1.85 times as long as wide; uniformly black, with smooth lustre; punctuation fine and irregular. Humeral calli distinct; apex rounded. Epipleura rather broad in the basal quarter, rapidly tapering by basal third of elytra, and reduced to a narrow margin in apical half of elytra.</p><p>Legs. Entirely pale, including femora, tibiae, and tarsi; 3 rd tarsomere slightly darker. Legs slender, covered with short, fine pale setae. Each claw with a small basal tooth.</p><p>Ventral side. Black, finely punctate, sparsely pubescent. Last abdominal ventral sternite of male with deep, drop-shaped impression.</p><p>Sexual dimorphism. Females larger and more robust than males, with proportionally shorter head and antennae. Head in females typically uniformly yellow, but vertex may be slightly darkened in some individuals; such darkening is weaker and less extensive than in males.</p><p>Aedeagus. Relatively slender and elongate; median lobe with nearly parallel lateral margins, slightly narrowed basally in lateral view. Apex bifid, with apical margins curved ventrally and laterally, forming a pair of recurved apical teeth. Distinct longitudinal groove present on ventral surface, beginning near apical third and widening uniformly towards apex, merging with contour of apical processes (Fig. 3 B).</p><p>Distribution.</p><p>Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece (Beenen 2024).</p><p>Differential diagnosis.</p><p>This species is closely related to Luperus doeberli Vela &amp; Bastazo, 2017 from south-eastern Turkey, sharing a similar bicoloured pattern. However, L. flaviceps can be distinguished by its generally larger body size (3.9–5.0 mm vs 4.3 mm in L. doeberli), differences in antennal coloration (antennomeres I – IV pale vs I – VI in L. doeberli), more strongly protruding pronotal angles and a distinctly margined anterior side of the pronotum (vs very weakly protruding angles and inconspicuous anterior margin). Luperus flaviceps differs from other related European Luperus mainly in having the yellow fore part of the head (in males) or entirely yellow head (in females), black elytra without metallic sheen or with only a faint lustre, and legs entirely pale. It is separated from L. pyrenaeus Germar, 1824 by the yellow head (vs entirely black) and larger size (3.9–5.0 mm vs. 3.6–4.6 mm), and from L. caucasicus Weise, 1879 and L. margaritae Lopatin, 1990 by the entirely pale legs (vs at least hind femora basally darkened) and larger body (starting from 3.9 mm vs 3.2–3.7 mm).</p><p>Molecular identification.</p><p>Two DNA barcode sequences (MEDLB 1010-26 and MEDLB 1011-26) are provided for the molecular identification of this species, one obtained from a male and one from a female specimen; both were collected on Valamara Mountain.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B207F220F1E95577B7986B2699E7085A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Magoga, Giulia;Andreeva, Alevtina;Costagliola, Paola;Cardinale, Marilù;Brunetti, Matteo;Montagna, Matteo	Magoga, Giulia, Andreeva, Alevtina, Costagliola, Paola, Cardinale, Marilù, Brunetti, Matteo, Montagna, Matteo (2026): Contributions to the knowledge of Albanian Chrysomelidae (Coleoptera), with the redescription of Luperus flaviceps Apfelbeck, 1912. ZooKeys 1285: 167-185, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1285.189385
