Reicheadella corcyrea ( Reitter, 1884 )

Bulirsch, Petr & Guéorguiev, Borislav V., 2008, Taxonomic studies of the Balkan Reicheina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Clivinini), with a review of the Albanian species, Zootaxa 1679, pp. 39-53 : 44

Reicheadella corcyrea ( Reitter, 1884)

( Figs 6 , 11 , 14 )

Material studied. 1 ɗ labelled “Gasturi, Korfu 2.IV. (19)29. Beier”; “collectio Paganetti” ( NMW); 5 specimens labelled: “ Greece, Kerkyra (Corfu), Vouniatades, under Laurus + Quercus ilex leaf litter, 31.3.1998, M. Pavesi lgt.” (cPB).

Taxonomic remarks. In order to define the systematic position of the separate phyletic lineages of the Balkan Reicheina more correctly, we represent here drawings and descriptions of the urite and the ventral view of the median lobe. Both have never been illustrated, in contrast to the several depictions of the lateral view of the aedeagus ( Jeannel 1957: 176, Fig. 80; Casale et al. 1998: 95, Fig. 7 ; Giachino & Vailati 2004: 28, Fig. 5 ). A detailed ventral scheme of the parameres is represented too.

Male genital armature. Urite as in Fig. 6 ; regularly rounded in basal and apical part alike, with prominent apical process, small subapical vertical lamella and subbasal swelling. Median lobe in ventral view as in Fig. 11 ; wide, straight, apically with bent to left side tip; internal sac situated in its medial and subapical part; copulatory piece with vague inner structures. Parameres more or less similar in size, somewhat different in shape as in Fig. 14 ; left one smaller, slightly bent before middle, its apical part widely rounded with one short and two long setae situated on equal distances from one another; right paramere larger, apically with one highly reduced (hardly visible) and two long setae situated on equal distances from one another.

Figures

FIGURES 4 – 6. Ventral view of postabdominal sternum IX (urite). Fig. 4, Dalmatoreicheia maderi sp. nov., holotype; Fig. 5. Reicheadella bischoffi, lectotype; Fig. 6, Reicheadella corcyrea, male labelled “ Gasturi, Korfu 2. IV. (19) 29. Beier ” (NMW). Scale bar = 0.1 mm.

FIGURES 9 – 11. Ventral view of median lobe of aedeagus. Fig. 9, Dalmatoreicheia maderi sp. nov., holotype; Fig. 10, Reicheadella bischoffi, lectotype; Fig. 11, Reicheadella corcyrea, male labelled “ Gasturi, Korfu 2. IV. (19) 29. Beier ” (NMW). Scale bar = 0.1 mm.

FIGURES 12 – 14. Ventral view of parameres. Fig. 12, Dalmatoreicheia maderi sp. nov., holotype; Fig. 13, Reicheadella bischoffi, lectotype; Fig. 14, Reicheadella corcyrea, male labelled “ Gasturi, Korfu 2. IV. (19) 29. Beier ” (NMW). Scale bar = 0.1 mm.

FIGURES 7 – 8. Left lateral view of median lobe of aedeagus. Fig. 7, Dalmatoreicheia maderi sp. nov., holotype; Fig. 8. Reicheadella bischoffi, lectotype. Scale bar = 0.1 mm.