Blepharidina burtli (Bryant)

Iannella, Paola D’Alessandro Mattia & Biondi, Maurizio, 2019, Revision of the Afrotropical flea beetle subgenus Blepharidina s. str. Bechyné (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae), Zootaxa 4545 (1) : -

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.1.2

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5935484

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Blepharidina burtli (Bryant)
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Blepharidina burtli (Bryant)

( Figs 3 View FIGURES 1–10 , 27 View FIGURES 26–33 , 34 View FIGURES 34–37 , 40 View FIGURES 38–43 , 55 View FIGURES 55–67 , 68 View FIGURES 68–69 )

Blepharida burtli Bryant, 1944: 134

Blepharidina burtli (Bryant) : Biondi et al. 2017: 129, 142 (pars)

Type material examined. Lectotype ♀ (Biondi des. in Biondi et al. 2017): “Tanganyika ( Tanzania) T., Mshughaa, 30 ml. E of Singida (5°03'S, 35°01′48''E), xii.1935 – i.1936, E. Burtl ” ( BMNH) GoogleMaps . Paralectotypes: same data as lectotype, 2 ♀ ( BMNH). Additional material examined in Appendix 1 GoogleMaps .

Taxonomic observations. Blepharidina burtli , especially in females, is similar to B. delineata ( Fig. 5 View FIGURES 1–10 ) in size, habitus and color pattern. However, the two species do not seem closely related because of the clear differences in the spermatheca ( Figs 55, 57 View FIGURES 55–67 ), having a more elongate distal part, and a thicker and shorter ductus in B. burtli . This species can be distinguished also by: the lateral margin of pronotum moderately sinuate ( Fig. 27 View FIGURES 26–33 ), with anterolateral part not visible in dorsal view (almost straight and entirely visible in B. delineata ); pronotal surface with an incomplete medial stria of punctures touching both posterior and anterior margins ( Fig. 27 View FIGURES 26–33 ) (complete in B. delineata ); elytral surface with smaller points and flat interstriae ( Fig. 34 View FIGURES 34–37 ) (with larger points and more carinate interstriae in B. delineata ). Aedeagus ( Fig. 40 View FIGURES 38–43 ) in ventral view thick and slightly sinuate laterally, with subrounded apical part and small median acute apex; in lateral view, straight and tapered from basal part to subapical part. Based on the general shape of the aedeagus, B. burtli could be closely related to B. aliquantula sp. nov., B. kasigauensis sp. nov., and B. regalini sp. nov. ( Figs 38 View FIGURES 38–43 , 45 View FIGURES 44–49 , 54 View FIGURES 50–54 ), but the aedeagus of B. burtli is easily distinguishable for being slightly stubbier, apically more rounded, and with a differently shaped dorsal ligula. Morphometry in Appendix 2.

Distribution. Tanzania ( Fig. 68 View FIGURES 68–69 ). Possibly Northern-Eastern Afrotropical (NEA) chorotype.

Ecological Notes. Not available. The collection sites fall within the area of Eastern African Xeric Scrub vegetation, and Miombo & Associated Broadleaf Savanna vegetation (belonging respectively to the Warm Desert & Semi-Desert Scrub & Grassland, and Tropical Lowland Grassland, Savanna & Shrubland formations).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Genus

Blepharidina

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Blepharidina burtli (Bryant)

Iannella, Paola D’Alessandro Mattia & Biondi, Maurizio 2019
2019
Loc

Blepharida burtli

Bryant, G. E. 1944: 134
1944
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