Cerocoma (Meloides) gloriosa Mulsant, 1857

Turco, Federica & Bologna, Marco A., 2011, Systematic revision of the genus Cerocoma Geoffroy, 1762 (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Cerocomini) 2853, Zootaxa 2853 (1), pp. 1-71 : 38-39

Cerocoma (Meloides) gloriosa Mulsant, 1857

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Cerocoma gloriosa Mulsant, 1857: 103 ; Mařan, 1944: 89 (pars).

Cerocoma vasvarii Kaszab, 1941: 675 , 680.

Cerocoma (Cerocoma) gloriosa, Kaszab, 1951: 264 , 267, 272.

Cerocoma (Cerocoma) gloriosa var. jodina Kaszab, 1951: 264 , 268.

Cerocoma pseudogloriosa Muche, 1963: 14 .

Cerocoma (Meloides) gloriosa, Dvořák, 1990: 6 .

Type locality. “ France ” ( Mulsant 1857). The locality is erroneous, as assessed by Mulsant himself, since this species does not belong to the European blister beetle fauna. The mistake is probably due to mislabeling. We designate herein “Çeyhan” as type locality, a town in southeastern Turkey, close to Adana .

Type specimens. Types of this species are probably preserved in the Lyon Museum; they were not examined. The holotype of the aberration jodina and of synonym C. vasvarii , labeled by Kaszab as “Monotypus”, have been studied:

Holotype ♂: Ceyhan / 937. VI. (white, printed) // leg. dr. Vasvári (white, printed) // Monotypus 1941 / Cerocoma ♂ / Vasvárii / Kaszab (white with red frame, printed and handwritten) // Cerocoma / gloriosa Muls. / det. dr. Kaszab (white, printed and handwritten) ( HNHM). The last abdominal segment and genitalia are preserved on a clear plastic card pinned with the specimen. Protarsomeres and left metatarsomeres are damaged.

Holotype ♂: Syrien / Lederer (white, printed) // Holotypus 1951 ♂ / Cerocoma gloriosa / ab. jodina / Kaszab (white with red frame, printed and handwritten) ( HNHM). Right metatarsomeres are slightly damaged .

Holotype and allotype of C. pseudogloriosa preserved at the Dresden Museum, were examined several years ago by one of us ( MAB) to investigate the taxonomic validity of the species, but conservation status of specimens and a detailed description of labels are not available .

Description. Male. Body metallic green with sparse yellowish pubescence, denser on head and pronotum; frons with a central orange spot; abdomen orange on sides and dorsally, metallic green ventrally; legs, antennae and mouthparts, including maxillary palpi, yellow-orange.

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

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. 4X ). 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 equal in size. Sclerotised hooks of endophallus small and very close from each other, equal in size, both pointing outwards ( Fig. 6X ).

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

Distribution. Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Syria. Erroneously recorded from Greece.

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.