Microhoria boyadjeani ( Pic, 1904 )

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 : 209-211

Microhoria boyadjeani ( Pic, 1904) ( Fig. 6 ) Anthicus Boyadjeani Pic, 1904: 73 (description). Anthicus (Immicrohoria) Boyadjiani [sic!] – Pic 1911a: 38 (checklist); Winkler 1927: 849 (checklist).

Microhoria boyadjeani – Chandler et al. 2008: 439 (new combination, checklist); Kejval & Chandler 2020: 131 (assigned to the M. terminata species group); Telnov 2020a: 608 (checklist).

Type material studied. Two specimens ( MNHN) mounted on the same card: Lectotype male [here designated, specimen mounted on the right side of the card] & 1 female paralectotype [specimen mounted on the left side of the card]: Bulgar­ Dagh (Taurus) [handwritten] // Type [handwritten] // TYPE [printed, label red] // A. Boyadjeani Pic [handwritten].

Supplementary description. Belongs to the M. terminata species group. Male lectotype. Total body length about 3 mm. Body uniformly black, antennae, palps and legs brown, tibiae moderately paler than femora. Head about 1.2× as long as wide, basal margin broadly rounded in one arc with posterior temporal angles. Compound eye moderate, slightly protruding from lateral outline of head. Head dorsum glossy, rather sparsely punctate with circular punctures. Intervening spaces about 2–3× wider than punctures, smooth. Dorsal cranial setae yellowish, sparse, subdecumbent. Antenna slightly thickened in apical third. Terminal antennomere elongate, apically pointed, about 3–3.2× as long as penultimate antennomere, as long as combined length of antennomeres 8–10. Pronotum slightly transverse, slightly narrower than head across eyes, glossy, rounded at anterior margin. Lateral margins strongly constricted in posterior half. Pronotal disc slightly convex in dorsal aspect, punctures and setae similar to those on head. Elytra about 1.5–1.6× as long as wide, subparallel laterally, dorsally flattened.Humerus broadly rounded, not protruding.Apex of elytron modified, channel of gland forming oval opening and a short process at posterior margin. Elytral disc glossy, sparsely, somewhat stronger punctate than forebody. Intervening spaces 2–3× as wide as punctures, smooth, glossy. Elytral setae yellowish, rather long, subdecumbent. Legs without modifications, tibial terminal spurs paired. Tergite VII subtruncate at posterior margin. Morphological sternite VII broadly rounded at posterior margin, subtruncate at median part of it. Aedeagus as in Fig. 6D–E . Tegmen apex curved, apically hooked; endophallic armature with pair of apical, hook­like, curved spines and preapical bunch of several slender spinules.

Sexual dimorphism. Female elytral apex without modifications. Female tergite VII broadly rounded at posterior margin.

Ecology. Unknown.

Distribution. Bolkar Mountains (Bulgar, or Bolghar Dagh) in Mersin and Nigde provinces, southern Turkey.

Chorotype. SW­Asiatic (1.13 SWA). Possible a S­Anatolian (= Taurian) endemic (9000.08 ANAS).

Figures

Fig. 6. Microhoria boyadjeani (Pic, 1904).A – Paralectotype (the specimen on the left) and lectotype (the specimen on the right) mounted on the same card, habitus, dorsal view; Habitus, dorsal view; B – Lectotype male, habitus, dorsal view; C – ditto, forebody, dorsal view; D – Aedeagus, lateral view; E – ditto, apical portion with inverted endophallic armature [not to scale]. The images of the aedeagus are suboptimal due to the condition of the lectotype.