Adelostoma (Zarudnionymus) batesi Haag-Rutenberg, 1872

Purchart, Luboš, 2012, Revision of the genus Adelostoma (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Part 1: subgenus Zarudnionymus Semenov & Bogatchev, 1947, Zootaxa 3164, pp. 17-31 : 26

Adelostoma (Zarudnionymus) batesi Haag-Rutenberg, 1872

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Adelostoma batesi Haag-Rutenberg, 1872: 426 –427 .— Koch 1952: 28.

Adelostoma batesi Haag-Rutenberg, 1875: 68 –69 [426–427] (duplicate description).— Koch 1935a: 40; Gebien 1937: 677; Gridelli 1953: 41; Purchart 2007: 243, 244; Löbl et al. 2008: 121.

Adelostoma batesi Haag, 1871 [sic!]: Ferrer 2001: 102.

Falsaspila batesi : Koch, 1952: 28.— Koch 1965: 125 –126; Ferrer 2001: 102.

Zarudnyonymus [sic!] batesi: Ardoin, 1976: 149 .— Kaszab 1981: 367; Schawaller 1993: 106.

A. grandicolle Fairmaire, 1890: 554 .— Gebien 1937: 678; Koch 1952: 31; Gridelli 1940: 226, 1953: 41; Kaszab 1981: 367. Syn. nov.

Type locality. Yemen ( A. grandicolle : Yemen, Kamaran Island).

Type material. Adelostoma batesi : Lectotype, designated here (1 ZSM): Yemen, Bates {handwritten} // Sammlung Haag Rutenberg {printed} // Batesi {handwritten} // Type, Adelostoma batesi H.-R. {red label, handwritten} // Paratypus, Falsapila batesi Hg., 1950 , C. KOCH {printed and hanwritten}// Zool. Staatsslg. München {blue label, printed} // LECTOTYPE, Adelostoma batesi Haag-Rutenberg, 1872 , desig. L. Purchart 2011 {red, printed}. Paralectotypes, designated here (1 BMNH): Type // Adelostoma batesi Haag. , Type // F. Bates, 82 – 19.} // PARALECTOTYPE, Adelostoma batesi Haag-Rutenberg, 1872 , desig. L. Purchart 2011 {red, printed} ; (1 NHMB-F): Arabien {handwritten} // F. Bates, 81-19 {printed} //British Museum {handwritten} // Batesi {handwritten} // COTYPUS {pink, printed} // Sammlung Adr. Schuster {printed} // PARALECTOTYPE, Adelostoma batesi Haag-Rutenberg, 1872, desig. L. Purchart 2011 {red, printed} .

A. grandicolle . Syntype ( MNHN): Camaran ...... {unreadable, handwritten} // TYPE {red label, printed} // Adelostoma grandicolle Frm., I. [Island] Camaran {handwritten} // MUSÉUM PARIS, 1906, Coll. Léon FAIRMAIRE {blue label, printed}.

Note. According to Ferrer (2001), a further syntype of A. batesi is deposited in the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (formerly Transvaal Museum), Pretoria, South Africa.

Additional material examined. SAUDI ARABIA —(1 BMNH): Arab. // F. Bates 81-19 ; (3 BMNH): El Hajaz, Millinger // G. Lewis 1915-38 ; (1 NHMB-F): Arabien // F. Bates, 81-19 // Adelostoma batesi Hg. , comp. typ., det. K.G. Blair // Sammlung H. Gebien . YEMEN —(1 BMNH): from debris under succulent plants // W. Aden Prov., Dhala, 4.800 ft., 14. ix. 1937 // B.M. Exp. to S.W. Arabia, H. Scott & E. B. Britton, B.M. 1938-246 // Adelostoma batesi Haag , det. Gridelli 1950.

Remarks. Fairmaire (1890) compared A. grandicolle with A. abyssinicum and A. bicarinatum Waterhouse, 1881 . He evidently did not examine A. batesi , as there is not a mere mention of this species in his paper. I tried to separate A. grandicolle and A. batesi , but could find no characters distinguishing the latter two species and I therefore believe they are identical. Gridelli (1940) had long since some doubts concerning validity of A. grandicolle . Kaszab (1981) knew A. batesi from Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Schawaller (1993) reported this species from northern part of Oman. This species shows relatively wide distribution range within the Arabian Peninsula, which supports synonymization of A. grandicolle Fairmaire , a species known only as a single type specimen from Kamaran Island. The latter is a not very large (108 km 2) island in the Red Sea, approximately 2km off the western coast of Yemen. It is a continental ("shelf") island located in the shallow waters of the Arabian Peninsula's continental shelf and is not completely and for long time isolated, unlike e.g. Socotra Island. In my opinion, there is no reason to believe in species level separate of A. grandicolle and A. batesi . Therefore I propose A. grandicolle Fairmaire as synonym of A. batesi Haag-Rutenberg.

Distribution. Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman ( Schawaller 1993).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 7. Habitus, dorsal view. 1. Adelostoma abyssinicum abyssinicum (non-type); 2. A. a. hirsutum (non-type); 3. A. a. obockensis subsp. nov. (holotype); 4. A. batesi (non-type); 5. A. borowieci (non-type); 6. A. gilloni (non-type); 7. A. grande (non-type).

FIGURES 8 – 14. Pronotum, dorsal view. 8. Adelostoma abyssinicum abyssinicum (non-type); 9. A. a. hirsutum (non-type); 10. A. a. obockensis subsp. nov. (holotype); 11. A. batesi (non-type); 12. A. borowieci (non-type); 13. A. gilloni (non-type); 14. A. grande (non-type).

FIGURES 15 – 21. Antenna, dorsal view. Arrows indicate elongate third antennomere. 15. Adelostoma abyssinicum abyssinicum (non-type); 16. A. a. hirsutum (non-type); 17. A. a. obockensis subsp. nov. (holotype); 18. A. batesi (non-type); 19. A. borowieci (non-type); 20. A. gilloni (non-type); 21. A. grande (non-type).