Timarcha (T.) sinuatocollis, Fairmaire, 1862

Petitpierre, Eduard & Anichtchenko, Alexander, 2018, Endophallus structure: a promising tool for cryptic species identification in Timarcha Samouelle, 1819 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae), Zootaxa 4446 (3), pp. 361-383 : 374

T. (T.) sinuatocollis Fairmaire, 1862

Material: 2 ♂: CAMpELLES, PYRENEES Of GIRONA, SpAIN, 12.10.1970, LEG. E. PETITpIERRE (EPC).

Description: SpECIES Of AN AMBIGUOUS pOSITION BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN CLASSIfIEd AS AN INdEpENdENT SpECIES (BECHYNÉ 1948A, 1948B, 1953; PETITpIERRE 1970B; WARCHAłOWSKI 2003, 2010), A SUBSpECIES Of T. goettingensis ( WINKELMAN & DEBREUIL 2008), OR A SUBSpECIES Of T. interstitialis FAIRMAIRE, 1861 ( JEANNE 1967). IT IS CHARACTERIZEd BY THE SMALL SIZE (USUALLY LESS THAN 10.5 MM.) ANd THE SLIGHTLY SINUOUS OR STRAIGHT pOSTERIOR ANGLES Of pRONOTUM. DISTRIBUTEd IN EASTERN PYRENEES Of SpAIN ANd FRANCE.

ENdOpHALLUS ( fIGS 22A, B ) STRONGLY CURVEd IN A Z-SHApE. BASAL pROTUBERANCES SMALL BUT dISTINCT. MANUBRIUM RHOMBOId ANd WELL SCLEROTIZEd ANd fLAGELLUM THIN ANd WEAKLY SCLEROTIZEd.

Figures

FIGURES 22–25. Endophallus of “T. goettingensis” group: 22a, b—T. sinuatocollis (Campelles); 23a, b—T. monserratensis (Montseny); 24a, b—T. interstitialis (Canet); 25a, b—T. piochardi (Alió). Scale = 1 mm.