Mylabris (Mylabris) concolor Marseul, 1870

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 : 25-26

Mylabris (Mylabris) concolor Marseul, 1870

Figs. 1 I, 12A–F

Mylabris concolor Marseul, 1870: 112 ; 1872: 126; Gemminger & Harold, 1870: 2135; Beauregard, 1890: 524; Sumakov, 1915: 13; 1930: 19; Borchmann, 1917: 30; Mader, 1927: 856; Reichardt, 1934: 214, 229; Zaitseva, 1960: 38; Mandl, 1964: 19; Kaszab, 1968a: 445; Mirzayans, 1970: 30; Iablokoff-Khnzorian, 1983: 66; Modarres Awal, 1997: 179; Özbek & Szaloki, 1998: 29.

Zonabris concolor, Escherich, 1897: 44 ; 1899: 91; Reitter, 1913: 661.

Mylabris (Mylabris) concolor, Kuzin, 1954: 354 ; Bologna, 1979: 154; 2008: 397.

Type locality. “Asie Mineure” ( Marseul, 1870). Name, used in the old literature, represents the Anatolian Peninsula.

Type specimens. The single type (which must be considered the holotype) of this species was examined at MNHN, in the Marseul’s collection.

Description. Body length: 11–13 mm; setae uniformly black, but mixed golden and black on legs; antennomeres mostly black, or III–VI dark reddish, III ca. twice as long as IV, XI slightly more than twice as long as wide ( Fig. 12 A); pronotum with an evident fore transverse depression, clearly narrowed on fore third; elytra unicolour yellow-brown, without any black spots or fasciae; “scutum” of mesosternum small and short posteriorly ( Fig. 12 B); male gonoforceps slender in lateral view ( Fig. 12 D), and fused ventrally in basal half ( Fig. 12 C); aedeagal distal hook relatively far from apex, proximal hook relatively close to the distal one ( Fig. 12 E).

Taxonomic remarks. This species is phenetically similar to Mylabris (Micrabris) unicolor Faldermann, 1837 , which has similar body size and unicolour brown-reddish elytra. But M. unicolor differs in the following subgeneric features: frons usually with two small red spots which can lack; pronotum more convex; “scutum” of mesosternum smooth, without any setae; apical lobe of male gonoforceps relatively long; aedeagal distal hook far from apex. Usually in M. unicolor , elytra have faint tracks of black spots visible only at microscope; we observed very scanty tracks of the external fore spot only in one M. concolor specimen.

Distribution. Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Habitus of the Mylabris (Mylabris) spp., dorsal view: A. M. alpicola, ♂; B. M. amorii, ♀; C. M. apiceguttata, ♂; D. M. apicenigra, ♂; E. M. barezensis, ♂; F. M. batnensis, ♂; G. M. cernyi, ♂; H. M. ciliciensis, ♂; I. M. concolor, ♂; J. M. desertica, ♀; K. M. emiliae, ♂; L. M. guerini, ♂; M. M. kodymi, ♂; N. M. madani, ♂; O. M. madoni, ♂; P. M. mediorientalis, ♂; Q. M. olivieri, ♂; R. M. parumpicta, ♀; S. M. poggii, ♂; T. M. pseudoemiliae, ♂; U. M. quadripunctata, ♂; V. M. schreibersi, ♂; W. M. tauricola, ♂; X. M. tricincta, ♂; Y. M. variabilis, ♂. Scale bar = 5 mm.

FIGURE 12. Mylabris (M.) concolor Marseul: A. antenna; B. mesosternum; C. tegmen, ventral view; D. tegmen, lateral view; E. aedeagus, lateral view; F. spiculum gastrale, dorsal view. Scale bar = 1 mm.