Cerocoma (Meloides) turcica 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 : 37

Cerocoma (Meloides) turcica Pardo Alcaide, 1977

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Cerocoma adamovichiana ssp. turcica Pardo Alcaide, 1977: 60 .

Cerocoma (Meloides) turcica, Dvořák, 1990: 3 .

Type locality. “O. Turkei, Ö. Solhan (ö Bingöl)” ( Pardo Alcaide 1977) .

Type specimens. Types, preserved in the Pardo Alcaide’s collection ( MULL), were not examined .

Description. Male. Body metallic green with yellowish setation, particularly dense and long on head and pronotum; legs, antennae and mouthparts, including maxillary palpi, orange; frontal calli metallic green, except for the anteriormost internal margins orange; narrow orange spot in the area between frontal calli, wider posteriad.

Head transverse with slightly protruding eyes. Maxillary palpi modified with palpomere II wide, flattened and curved; III swollen, long and rounded on the external side; IV long and gradually widened from base to apex ( Fig. 3Q ). Antennae modified with antennomere I bearing a short, narrow and bent expansion on the external side and dorsal keel wide, high and apically curved; III–VI very modified and ventrally expanded; V with short setae on distal face of ventral laminar expansion; VI with a very long, narrow and curved expansion on ventral side; VI–VII each with a tuft of long and erect setae on ventral side; IX transverse, rounded apically, dorsally slightly flattened and dorsal edge deeply bilobate ( Fig. 2Q ).

Protibial keel short and straight in lateral view ( Fig. 4Q ). Protarsomeres weakly dorso-ventrally flattened; II with an obvious dorsal bulge; protarsomere III shorter than V, excluding claws.

Gonostyli, in lateral view, slightly curved, with apical lobes dorsally directed; apical lobes, in dorsal view, swollen and parallel. Apex of aedeagus pointed; aedeagal hooks subequal in size (the subapical slightly larger). Sclerotised hooks of endophallus subequal in size (the apical slightly larger), the apical pointing outwards and the subapical backwards ( Fig. 6Q ).

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

Taxonomy. For taxonomic remarks on C. turcica see the discussion on C. muehlfeldi .

Distribution. Macedonia, Bulgaria, N Greece, SE Romania, S Russia, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, NW Iran. A single record from Slovakia is probably erroneous.

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).