Hycleus ligatus (Marseul, 1870) Bologna & Turco, 2007

Bologna, Marco A. & Turco, Federica, 2007, The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of the United Arab Emirates with an updated Arabian checklist, Zootaxa 1625 (1), pp. 1-33 : 25

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1625.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7BB259DD-7895-44CB-82D6-0C7905049320

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FB4051-D65F-DC14-229F-F871B0AD60BE

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scientific name

Hycleus ligatus (Marseul, 1870)
status

comb. nov.

Hycleus ligatus (Marseul, 1870) n. comb.

Mylabris ligata Klug, 1845

Distribution. Recorded from Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya; it is another Afrotropical element new for the Arabian Peninsula.

New records. Saudi Arabia: Arabia , 1 ex. ( MNHN) .

Remarks. This species belongs to the Mesoscutatus - type lineage. According to the shape of male maxillary palpi, anteriorly depressed and enlarged, it seems related to the group of H. dubiosus , an Afrotropical complex of species, still not studied in detail.

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Meloidae

Genus

Hycleus

Loc

Hycleus ligatus (Marseul, 1870)

Bologna, Marco A. & Turco, Federica 2007
2007
Loc

Mylabris ligata

Klug 1845
1845
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