Timarcha balearica, Gory, 1833

Petitpierre, Eduard & Anichtchenko, Alexander, 2018, Endophallus structure: a promising tool for cryptic species identification in Timarcha Samouelle, 1819 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae), Zootaxa 4446 (3), pp. 361-383 : 369

“ T. balearica ” —group

Description: GROUp CONSISTING Of ONLY ONE SpECIES, T. balearica , ROUGHLY SIMILAR IN SIZE ANd SHApE TO T. intermedia BUT A BIT LESS STOUT, LONGER LEGS, ANd dIffERING ALSO IN THE COMpLETE ABSENCE Of pUNCTATION ON THE UppER SIdE. IT dISpLAYS CHROMATIC pOLYMORpHISM, ALTHOUGH MOST SpECIMENS ARE dULL dARK GREEN, SOMETIMES EVEN A SLIGHTLY BRIGHT BLACK COLOUR CONTRARY TO THE LATTER SpECIES. IT IS ENdEMIC Of THE TWO LARGER BALEARIC ISLANdS, MALLORCA ANd MENORCA.