Calyptopsis escherichi Reitter, 1900

Chigray, Svetlana, Nabozhenko, Maxim, Keskin, Bekir & Abdurakhmanov, Gayirbeg, 2018, Taxonomic review of the genus Calyptopsis of Turkey and adjacent areas (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tentyriini), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 58 (2), pp. 331-346 : 335

Calyptopsis escherichi Reitter, 1900

( Figs 3 A–F, 8B)

Calyptopsis escherichi Reitter, 1900: 133 (original description).

Type locality. ‘ Angora [now Ankara, Turkey]’.

Type material. Type specimens were not studied and are presumably lost as they are not present in the collection of Reitter in HNHM. Specimens depository was not mentioned in REITTER (1900).

Material examined. 1 ♀, ‘Coll. Reitter // Calyptopsis escherichi m [handwritten by Reitter] // Eshi-Chehir Anatol. // Escherichi Rtt. / det. dr. Kaszab’ ( HNHM); 1♁ 3♀♀, ‘Bulgar Maden [= Turkey, Niğde Province, near Karagöle, Maden Köy] / Coll. Reitter // Calyptopsis escherichi / det. dr. Kaszab’ ( ZIN).

Distribution. Turkey: Eskişehir, Ankara, and Niğde provinces ( REITTER 1900, present paper).

Figures

Fig. 3. Calyptopsis spp., habitus and details of structure. A, B, C – C. escherichi Reitter, 1900, ♀ and labels (Eskişehir, HNHM); D – C. escherichi, mesoventrite; E – C. escherichi, ♁ (Niğde: Maden köy, ZIN); F – the same, ♀; G – C. lineimargo Reitter, 1897, lectotype and labels; H – C. solieri Reiche & Saulcy, 1857, ♁ (Şanlıurfa Province, Birecik); I – C. solieri, ♁ (Gaziantep Province, Şahinbey).