Anthomalachius foveatus ( Medvedev, 1964 ) Tshernyshev, Sergei E., 2009

Tshernyshev, Sergei E., 2009, Anthomalachius, a new genus of soft-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera, Malachiidae: Malachiinae), Zootaxa 2094 (1), pp. 23-35 : 34

Anthomalachius foveatus ( Medvedev, 1964) comb. n.

( Figs. 33–38 , 44 )

Malachius foveatus Medvedev, 1964: 156

Clanoptilus strangulatus ssp. foveatus Medvedev, 1964 - Evers, 1985: 39–40

Clanoptilus (Hypoptilus) foveatus: Tshernyshev, 2000: 205 , 209.

Diagnosis. Males of this species have very slight depressions of elytral apices, and lack the elytral appendage ( Fig. 33 ). A difference also can be found in smallest sizes amongst the congeners ( Fig. 44 ). Urites and male genitalia as in Figs. 33–38 . Length (male/female) 4.0–4.5/ 4.5–4.7 mm; width (at elytral base) 1.0/ 1.1 mm.

Material. KAZAKHSTAN: 10 km N of Zharkol Lake, 10. VI.1957 – ♂ (holotype) ( ZISP); Zaisan District, Rozhkovo vill., sweeping, 15. VI.1986, V. Shilenkov leg. – 1 ♂ 1♀ ( SZMN); MONGOLIA, Hovd aimak, 45 km N. of Bulgan somon, Bulgan-Gol Valley, 1300 m, 12.07.2007, E. V. Guskova, R. V. Yakovlev leg. – 1♂ ( SZMN); Russia, Volgograd Area, 1–5 km E of Pallasovka vill., dry steppe with Euphorbia and Tanacetum , 25. V.1996, V.Dubatolov leg. – 1♂ ( SZMN).

Distribution. Central Asia: Transcaspian part of Kazakhstan and Russia, Mongolia ( Fig. 38 ).

Figures

FIGURES 33–38. Anthomalachius foveatus (Medvedev, 1964), male, apex of left elytra, dorsal (33); apical tergite (34); apical sternite (35); tegmen (36); aedeagus, lateral (37); locality (38). Scale bar 0.5 mm.

FIGURES 39–44. Anthomalachius spp., male habiti, A. spinosus (Erichson, 1840) (39); A. strangulatus (Abeille de Perrin,1885) (40); A. senylia (Tshernyshev, 2000) (41); A. pseudospinosus (Medvedev, 1964) dorsally (42), and ventrally (43); A. foveatus (Medvedev, 1964) (44). Scale bar 1.0 mm.