Megalodontes mundus Konow, 1904
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3790.1.5 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5080453 |
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Megalodontes mundus Konow, 1904 |
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Megalodontes mundus Konow, 1904
A valid species, Megalodontes mundus Konow, 1904 .
Types. Megalodontes mundus Konow, 1904: 228–229 . Syntypes ♀, “Hispania (Los Moulinos)”. Lectotype ♀, hereby designated (MNCN_Ent 100206, MNCN Cat. Tipos Nº 9979, Fig. 29 View FIGURE 29 , see also http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/ m9.figshare.763230). Type locality: Spain: Madrid: Los Molinos. Paralectotypes: 2 ♀ (MNCN_Ent 81526 and 81527, MNCN Cat. Tipos Nº 9979), 1 ♀ SDEI (http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.821284), all data same as for lectotype.
Discussion. The taxon belongs to the Megalodontes cephalotes complex, and might be only a very pale form of cephalotes . Hitherto only known from the types, all collected on 7.7. 1902 in Los Molinos near Madrid. This would be the westernmost locality known for cephalotes (except for a specimen from Beges, Cantabria). Very similar pale forms of cephalotes (forma f according to Taeger 2002) are known from the Spanish Pyrenees, but these are less sculptured than mundus . Megalodontes species usually show clear differences in their COI barcodes. Perhaps fresh specimens might help to clarify the status of the taxon.
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