Timarcha (T.) tortosensis, 2018

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 : 376

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4446.3.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:227C1101-B5EC-48C7-8780-BEEBA6D5AE06

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5968213

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AF01B532-1957-FFA8-FF03-FF57D5FDFFCE

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Timarcha (T.) tortosensis
status

stat. nov.

T. (T.) tortosensis Bechyné, 1948a stat. nov.

Material: 3 ♂: ALdEA, TARRAGONA, 0 3.1969, LEG. E. PETITpIERRE (EPC).

Description: THIS TAXON WAS dESCRIBEd AS A SUBSpECIES Of T. fallax fOR ITS BRIGHT ANd MORE dENSELY pUNCTUREd pRONOTUM ANd ELYTRA WITHOUT UNdULATEd INTERSTICES, fROM WHICH IT CAN ALSO BE SEpARATEd BY A STRIKINGLY dISTINCT INTERNAL SAC. ENdOpHALLUS ( fIGS 27A, B View FIGURES 26–28 ) COMpOSEd Of THREE pARTS: BASAL pART GLOBULAR ANd LONGER THAN MIddLE ANd ApICAL pARTS COMBINEd; MIddLE pART WITH TWO dOUBLE dORSAL pROTUBERANCES IN ANGLE; ANd ApICAL pART ENLARGEd WITH TWO dOUBLE LATERAL SUBSpHERES. MANUBRIUM VERY BROAd ANd CLEARLY dIffERING fROM THAT Of T. fallax . DISTRIBUTEd IN SOUTHERNMOST CATALONIA.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Genus

Timarcha

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