Hycleus schauffelei ( Kaszab, 1957 )

Bologna, Marco A., B, Ladislav Černý & B, Ahmed Zubair, 2018, Meloidae (Coleoptera) of Pakistan and Kashmir with the description of three new species, new faunistic and taxonomic records, and a zoogeographic analysis, Turkish Journal of Zoology 42 (6), pp. 637-660 : 648

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https://doi.org/ 10.3906/zoo-1712-36

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scientific name

Hycleus schauffelei ( Kaszab, 1957 )
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Hycleus schauffelei ( Kaszab, 1957)

New records. Pakistan: 1 ex., western Baluchistan, Tump, 90 km west of Turbat , 13–15.iv.1993, S. Bečvář ( CC) .

Distribution. Species recorded from Iran ( Kaszab, 1968; Bologna, 2008); new species record for Pakistan.

Hycleus orientalis Group (sensu Bologna and Turco, 2007)

Hycleus hanguensis ( Kaszab, 1958)

Distribution. Described from Hangu, northwestern Pakistan; endemic to this country ( Kaszab, 1958).

Remarks. The placement of this species in this group is based only on its similarity with H. rajah , noted by Kaszab (1958).

Hycleus rajah (Marseul, 1872)

New records. Pakistan: 1 ex., Lower Dir , 12.vii.2012 ( CB) ; 1 ex., Lower Dir , Timergara, 22.vii.86 on Hibiscus (MRSNB) .

Distribution. Distributed only in India and Pakistan; new species record for Pakistan.

Hycleus rouxii (Laporte de Castelnau, 1840)

Distribution. Indian species, also occurring in Sri Lanka. Recorded from Pakistan by Hashmi and Tashfeen (1992) as Mylabris , but not reported by Bologna (2008).

Hycleus maculiventris Group (sensu Bologna, 1990 and Bologna and Turco, 2007)

Hycleus schah (Reiche, 1866)

New records. Pakistan: 1 ex. , Pakistan, S. Prespl ( CB); 1 ex. , Baluchistan, S. Prespl ( CK); 1 ex. , Baluchistan, Zhob , v.1991, S. Prespl ( CC). Possibly these different localities refer to the last one only .

Distribution. Sindian element, previously recorded only from certain regions of Iran (nominotypical form) and Afghanistan ( subsp. tuxeni Kaszab, 1953 ). New species record for Pakistan.

Remarks. This species belongs to the group of Hycleus maculiventris (Klug, 1845) , a N Afrotropical- Sindian lineage, discussed by Bologna and Turco (2007). The validity of the Afghanistan subspecies tuxeni needs confirmation.

(b) Hycleus , lineage Mesoscutatus

Hycleus belli Group (here defined)

CC

CSIRO Canberra Rhizobium Collection

CB

The CB Rhizobium Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Meloidae

Genus

Hycleus

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