Mylabris (Mylabris) apicenigra Sumakov, 1915

Pan, Zhao & Bologna, Marco A., 2014, Taxonomy, Bionomics and Faunistics of the Nominate Subgenus of Mylabris Fabricius, 1775, with the description of five new species (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Mylabrini), Zootaxa 3806 (1), pp. 1-78 : 19-20

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Mylabris quadripunctata apicenigra Sumakov, 1915: 24 ; 1930: 38; Mader, 1927: 858; Reichardt, 1934: 215, 230. Mylabris (Mylabris) apicenigra, Kuzin, 1954: 354 ; Bologna, 2008: 397.

Type locality. “Perse, Turkestan (?), Asie Min.” ( Sumakov, 1915).

Type specimens. Not examined but probably preserved at ZIN. Sumakov (1915: 24, note 39) cited 6 specimens of this species received by Bodemeyer under the name of M. apicenigra Escherich , which actually is a nomen in litteris, and consequently that of Sumakov is the first description.

Description. Body length: 12–16 mm; setae uniformly black, but mixed golden and black on legs; frontal red spot posteriorly bilobed; antennomeres uniformly black, III ca. 1.5 times as long as IV, XI slightly more than twice as long as wide ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 A); pronotum without evident fore transverse depression; elytra yellow only with one black apical fascia, variable in width (very narrow to wide) ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 B); pronotal punctures middle in size, well distinct posteriorly and almost confluent in fore third; mesosternum as in Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 C; male gonoforceps very slender in lateral view ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 E), and fused ventrally in basal third ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 D); aedeagal ( Fig. 7 View FIGURE 7 F) distal hook closed to apex, the proximal one positioned relatively far from apex, and bigger than the distal one; endophallic hook evidently curved.

Distribution. Iran, Syria, Turkey.

Taxonomic remarks. This species was sometimes confused with Mylabris (Micrabris) inculta ( Escherich, 1899) , which has gray or golden body setation, while M. apicenigra has only black setae. It could be confused also with M. (Mylabris) concolor Marseul, 1870 , from which is easily distinct by the characters indicated in the key (see above).

Distribution. S and E Turkey, N Syria, Iran, S Turkmenistan.