Microhoria schimperi ( Pic, 1898 ) Kejval & Chandler, 2020

Kejval, Zbyněk & Chandler, Donald S., 2020, Generic revision of the Microhoriini with new species and synonymies from the Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera: Anthicidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 60 (1), pp. 95-154 : 129

Microhoria schimperi ( Pic, 1898) comb. nov.

( Fig. 87 )

Anthicus schimperi Pic, 1898: 70 .

Anthicus schimperi : PIC (1911b): 72 (catalogue).

Anthicus (Aulacoderus) schimperi : VAN HILLE (1984): 60, figs 193–197 (redescription).

Type locality. Ethiopia (‘Abyssinie’).

Type material. Syntypes, see Remarks ( MNHN).

Additional material. ETHIOPIA: 2, ‘MUSEUM PARIS ABYSSI- NIE SCHIMPER 430-50’ ( MNHN).

Diagnosis. Microhoria schimperi species-group; slender brownish-black species with oval head. Male sternum VII simple, slightly produced and evenly rounded apically; sternum VIII forming pair of simple, subtriangular sclerites, weakly connected medially; tergum VII simple; tergum VIII simple; aedeagus ( Fig. 87 ).

Distribution. Ethiopia.

Remarks. PIC (1898) described Anthicus schimperi from an unstated number of specimens collected by W. Schimper in 1850 in ‘Abyssinie’ and deposited in MNHN. The examined specimens originate from a larger series present in a box with material collected by Schimper. These lack Pic’s identification labels, but the labels bear the appropriate data and it is possible that they are syntypes, or at the least topotypes. The redescription by VAN HILLE (1984) was based on five ‘cotypes’ from MNHN, which may have originated from the same sample.

Anthicus schimperi displays all the important distinguishing characters of Microhoria , and differs from Aulacoderus in having two terminal spurs on all tibiae.

Figures

Figs 85–87.Aedeagus: 85 – Microhoria paupercula (LaFerté-Sénectère, 1849) comb. nov.; 86 – M. almukalla sp. nov., ventral view; 87 – M. schimperi (Pic, 1898) comb. nov. in ventral (left) and lateral (right) view. Scale bars: 0.2 mm – A (Fig. 85), B (Fig. 86), C (Fig. 87).