Cerocoma (Meloides) rapillyi Pardo Alcaide, 1977

Turco, Federica & Bologna, Marco A., 2011, Systematic revision of the genus Cerocoma Geoffroy, 1762 (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Cerocomini) 2853, Zootaxa 2853 (1), pp. 1-71 : 42-43

Cerocoma (Meloides) rapillyi Pardo Alcaide, 1977

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Cerocoma rapillyi Pardo Alcaide, 1977: 61 .

Cerocoma (Meloides) rapillyi, Dvořák, 1990: 9 .

Type locality. “ Iran, Magsud-beik” ( Pardo Alcaide 1977).

Type specimens. 13 paratypes have been examined:

6 paratypes, 3 ♀♀ and 3 ♂♂: PARATIPO (red, black printed) // Cerocoma ♂ / rapillyi Pardo / Pardo Alcaide det. 1974 (red, printed and handwritten) // IRAN Magsud-Beik / 20. V.1969 / M. Rapillyi leg. (white, handwritten) ( MNHN). The second label is “ Cerocoma ♀ ” for the three females. Several specimens lack part of the legs and one female lacks left antenna.

1 paratype ♀: IRAN Shah / Reza 20. V .69 / M. Rapillyi réc. (white, handwritten) // PARATIPO (red, black printed) // Cerocoma ♀ / rapillyi Pardo / Pardo Alcaide det. 1974 (red, printed and handwritten) ( MNHN) .

3 ♂♂ paratypes pinned together: Iran Maqsud beik / 29. V.1969 / M. Rapilly leg. (white, handwritten) // coll. Pardo Alcaide (yellow, printed) // PARATYPUS / A. Pardo (red, printed) // Cerocoma / rapillyi Pardo (pink, handwritten) ( MULL). Protarsomeres of two specimens are damaged.

3 ♂♂ paratypes pinned together: Maqsud beik / 20. V.67 (white, handwritten; 3 identical labels repeated) // Iran / M. Rapilly leg. (white, handwritten) // coll. Pardo Alcaide (yellow, printed) // PARATYPUS / A. Pardo (red, printed) // Cerocoma / rapillyi Pardo (pink, handwritten) ( MULL). One male lacks the head and another specimen lacks left protarsomeres.

Description. Male. Body metallic dark green with short and sparse yellowish setae; frons with a central orange spot; abdomen orange, except for last two segments, metallic green; legs, antennae and mouthparts, including maxillary palpi, yellow-orange.

Head transverse with slightly protruding eyes. Maxillary palpi modified with palpomere II wide, flattened and curved; III very swollen and rounded on the external side; IV with narrow base and then very distinctly widened to apex, especially on the internal edge ( Fig. 3Y ). Antennae modified with antennomere I bearing a narrow, long and apically curved expansion on the external side and dorsal keel wide, high and apically curved; III–VI very modified and ventrally expanded; III, in dorsal view, slightly sinuate on the external side and with a wide and shallow incision on the internal side and a short and broad appendix on the internal apex ( Fig. 7B ); V with short setae on distal face of ventral laminar expansion; VI with a very long, narrow and curved expansion and a tuft of long and erect setae on ventral side; IX transverse and apically rounded ( Fig. 2Y ).

Protibial keel extended to proximal 2/3 of the length of tibia, with dorsal edge straight and anterior edge bearing an angular bulge, visible in lateral view ( Fig. 4Y ). Protarsomeres slightly enlarged; II with an obvious dorsal bulge.

Gonostyli, in lateral view, straight, with apical lobes directed forward; apical lobes, in dorsal view, swollen and slightly diverging. Apex of aedeagus slightly pointed; aedeagal hooks subequal in size (the subapical only slightly larger). Sclerotised hooks of endophallus equal in size, the apical pointing outwards and the subapical backwards ( Fig. 6Y ).

Female. Not modified. Refer to key for diagnostic characters.

Taxonomy. For its relationships, see discussion on C. marginiventris .

Distribution. Iraq, Iran. Erroneously recorded from Bulgaria.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Male right antenna, lateral view: A, C. schreberi; B, C. martae; C, C. ephesica; D, C. prevezaensis; E, C. festiva; F, C. graeca; G, C. malatyensis; H, C. albopilosa; I, C. longiseta; J, C. barthelemyi; K, C. vahli; L, C. scovitzi; M, C. latreillei; N, C. adamovichiana; O, C. confusa; P, C. azurea; Q, C. turcica; R, C. muehlfeldi; S, C. schaefferi; T, C. prochaskana; U, C. dahli; V,C. bernhaueri; W, C. simplicicornis; X, C. gloriosa; Y, C. rapillyi; Z, C. marginiventris; AA, C. macedonica; AB, C. kunzei; AC, C. bodemeyeri. Scale bar = 1 mm.

FIGURE 3. Male right maxillary palp, dorsal view: for lettering refer to caption to Fig. 1. Scale bars = 1 mm (1: C–E, G–J, L– R, Y, AA–AC; 2: B, F, K, S–T, X, Z; 3: A, U–W).

FIGURE 4. Male right protibia, lateral view: for lettering refer to caption to Fig. 1. Scale bar = 1 mm.

FIGURE 6. Male external genitalia (from left to right: tegmen, dorsal and lateral views; aedeagus, lateral view): for lettering refer to caption to Fig. 1. Scale bars = 1 mm (1: A–E, H, L–M, R; 2: F–G, I–K, N–P, S–T, X–Y, AA–AC; 3: Q, U–W, Z).

FIGURE 7. Male antennomere III, dorsal view: A, C. gloriosa; B, C. rapillyi; C, C. marginiventris; D, C. macedonica; E, C. kunzei; F, C. bodemeyeri. Scale bar = 1 mm.