Microhoria lividipes ( Desbrochers des Loges, 1875 )

Telnov, Dmitry, 2022, Revisional notes on the genus Microhoria Chevrolat, 1877 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthicidae) from the Eastern Mediterranean and Turkey, with new descriptions, an annotated catalogue, and a key, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 22 (2), pp. 195-312 : 259-260

Microhoria lividipes ( Desbrochers des Loges, 1875) ( Fig. 33 )

Anthicus lividipes Desbrochers des Loges, 1875: 47 (description).

Anthicus lividipes – Baudi di Selve 1877: 141 (supplementary description); Marseul 1879: 162 (erroneously listed among possible junior synonyms of Anthicus ocreatus LaFerté­Sénectère, 1847 (now Microhoria ); Desbrochers 1881: 152 (note on erroneous synonymy proposed by Marseul (1879)); Heyden et al. 1883: 140 (checklist, as synonym of Anthicus “ ochreatus ” [sic!]); Pic 1899a: 176 (record – Lebanon); 1901c: 255 (checklist); Pic 1911a: 58 (checklist); Krekich­Strassoldo 1929: 164 (nota, morphology); Uhmann et al. 2005: 5, 37 (biogeography, distribution records – Lebanon); Chandler et al. 2008: 427 (checklist).

Anthicus (Immicrohoria) lividipes – Winkler 1927: 848 (checklist; record – Syria); Hariri 1968: 206 (checklist).

Microhoria lividipes – Kejval & Chandler 2020: 131 , 141 (new combination, bibliography, type material, assigned to the M. terminata species group); Telnov 2020a: 610 (checklist).

Type material studied. Syntype 1 female MNHN: Syrie [printed] // type [handwritten] // TYPE [printed, label red] // lividipes Desb. Typiq. [handwritten, label greenish] // 83 Db [printed] .

This taxon is likely conspecific with Microhoria alfierii ( Pic, 1923) .

Supplementary description. Female syntype. Head black­brown, pronotum brown in anterior, yellowish­brown in posterior half. Elytra brown on anterior two thirds, yellow on posterior third. Antennomeres 1–5 yellow, remaining antennomeres brown. Palps and legs yellowish­brown. Head about 1.2× as long as wide, head base broadly rounded, tempora subparallel, posterior temporal angles rounded. Compound eye moderate, about as long as tempus, moderately protruding from lateral outline of head.Head dorsum moderately glossy, punctures moderate, rather deep. Intervening spaces smooth, generally as wide as to twice as wide as punctures. Dorsal cranial setae whitish to yellowish, moderately dense, subdecumbent. Antenna moderately thickened in apical half. Terminal antennomere bluntly pointed, about twice as long as penultimate antennomere. Pronotum barely longer than wide, distinctly narrower than head across eyes, moderately glossy, broadly rounded at anterior margin. Lateral margins slightly constricted in posterior half. Latero­basal pronotal fovea narrow. Pronotal disc flattened in dorsal aspect. Pronotal punctures dense and coarse, intervening spaces glossy, narrower than to about as wide as punctures. Pronotal setae similar to those on head. Elytra about 1.5× as long as wide, laterally widened at midlength, dorsally flattened. Humerus broadly rounded, not protruding. Elytral disc moderately glossy, punctures somewhat larger and coarser than those on pronotum. Intervening spaces generally as wide as punctures, smooth. Elytral setae whitish to yellowish, appressed to subdecumbent. Legs without modifications, tibial terminal spurs paired. Tergite VII and morphological sternite VII broadly rounded at posterior margin.

Sexual dimorphism. Male is unknown.

Ecology. Unknown.

Distribution. Lebanon, Syria.

Chorotype. SW­Asiatic (1.13 SWA), considered restricted to Levant.

Note. It is unclear based on which features this species was attributed to the M. terminata species group by Kejval & Chandler (2020). This placement to be considered tentative.

Figures

Fig. 33. Microhoria lividipes (Desbrochers des Loges, 1875) Female syntype, habitus, dorsal view.