Omiamima tarensis Pešić & Borovec, 2024

Pešić, Snežana B. & Borovec, Roman, 2024, Omiamima tarensis Pešić & Borovec sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Еntiminae) from Tara Mountain in Serbia, Zootaxa 5541 (1), pp. 51-60 : 54-56

Omiamima tarensis Pešić & Borovec sp. nov.

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Type material

Holotype: SERBIA: 1 ♂ ( NHMBEO Ot 1; on Fig. 4); Tara Mt. , near the center of the Kaluđerske Bare touristic settlement, in the Duga Kosa area; 43°53’36″ N, 19°33’45″ E; 940 m; 5 May 2002, at 7.30 a.m.; S. Pešić leg.; pine forest behind the house of Milica Josifović, on Chamaecytisus ratisbonensis (Schaeff.) Rothm.

Paratypes (12): SERBIA: 1 ♀ ( FSUKG Ot 2), pine forest, Tara Mt., Sređ (43°53’56″ N, 19°31’40″ E; 980 m), 1 May 1991, S. Pešić leg; 1 ♀ ( FSUKG Ot 3), pine forest, Tara Mt., Kaluđerske Bare , Golubac, near the road Kremna- Kaluđerske Bare (43°53’6.6″ N, 19°32’59″ E; 1085 m), 1 May 2002, S. Pešić leg.; 1 ♀ ( RBCZ), C. ratisbonensis in pine forest, Tara Mt., Kaluđerske Bare , Golubac (43°53’9″ N, 19°32’52″ E; 1100 m), 1 May 2002, S. Pešić leg.; 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ ( RBCZ one male, ZIN male & female, FSUKG Ot 4 one female), pine forest, Tara Mt., Kaluđerske Bare, Sređ (43°53’38″ N, 19°32’28″ E; 1060 m), 2 May 2002, S. Pešić leg.; 2 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀ ( FSUKG Ot 5 to 9), the same place as for holotype, 3 May 2002, at 6.45 a.m.; S. Pešić leg.

Etymology

Toponymic; named after Tara Mountain in western Serbia. According to a legend, Tara Mountain was the home of an ancient Slavic god named Tar. Tara Mountain (Sanskrit = star) was named after the Illyrian mountain tribe Autariyat , who lived in the area of Tara during the Bronze Age ( Tomić et al. 2018).