Mylabris (Mylabris)

Černý, Ladislav & Vrabec, Vladimír, 2019, Mylabris (Mylabris) snizeki sp. nov. from Jordan, with a key to the Jordanian species of the nominotypical subgenus (Coleoptera: Meloidae), Zootaxa 4555 (1), pp. 146-150 : 149-150

Key to Jordanian species of Mylabris (Mylabris)

Species marked by an asterisk are listed from Jordan in some papers. These species occur in neighboring countries.

In our opinion, the records may be erroneous and the old reports from Jordan could well refer to the newly

described species. All older material of these species needs to be revised.

1 Pronotum with fore transverse depression.................................................................. 2

- Pronotum without fore transverse depression................................................................ 4

2 Black elytral pattern composed by isolated, irregular spots. Anterior sutural black spots fused and forming one spot bilobed posteriorly. Pronotum longer than wide, with pronounced fore transverse depression. Antennomere III more than 1.5 times longer than IV, XI twice as long as wide. Tegmen slender in lateral view, proximal hook of aedeagus situated considerably distant from apex and far from distal one. Species range: Jordan.................................... M. (M.) snizeki sp. nov.

- Black elytral pattern usually composed by isolated rounded spots, the middle one can be fused forming a transverse fascia. Pronotum slightly longer than wide. Antennomere III less than 1.5 times longer than IV, XI less than twice as long as wide. Tegmen wide in lateral view, aedeagal hooks closer. Females of these species are difficult to identify.................. 3

3 Aedeagal hooks similar in shape and inclination; apical lobe of tegmen short. Species range: S Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, Jordan (possibly N Pakistan)................................................ M. (M.) cernyi Pan & Bologna, 2014

- Distal hook of aedeagus smaller than proximal hook; apical lobe of tegmen longer than in M. (M.) cernyi and slightly curved. Species range: Spain, throughout southern Europe, southern Russia, Turkey to northwestern China (Xinjiang)............................................................................... * M. (M.) quadripunctata ( Linnaeus, 1767)

4 Black elytral pattern composed by two small rounded anterior spots (sutural and humeral); middle fascia incomplete, reaches neither sutural nor external margin of elytron, or rarely reaches external margin; black apical fascia wide. Antennomere XI more than twice as long as wide (in males). Hooks of aedeagus very closely spaced. Species range: Israel, Jordan, Iraq, W Iran................................................................. M. (M.) mediorientalis Pan & Bologna, 2014

- Black elytral pattern composed by variable shaped spots and complete fasciae; apical fascia somewhat wider than in M. mediorientalis ; anterior fascia in some specimens broken up into two rather irregularly rounded spots. Proximal and distal hooks of aedeagus not closely spaced. Antennomere XI less than twice as long as wide. Species range: Spain, southern Europe, southern Russia, Turkey to eastern Siberia, central Kazakhstan....................... * M. (M.) variabilis (Pallas, 1782)