Glaphyrus (Eoglaphyrus) turkestanicus Semenov, 1889

Ghrejyan, T. L., Kalashian, M. Yu. & Shokhin, I. V., 2023, A new species of the genus Glaphyrus (subgenus Eoglaphyrus) (Сoleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Glaphyridae) from Tajikistan, with notes on G. (E.) turkestanicus, Zoosystematica Rossica (Zoosyst. Rossica) 32 (1), pp. 8-15 : 13-14

Glaphyrus (Eoglaphyrus) turkestanicus Semenov, 1889

( Figs 4–6 , 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 )

Glaphyrus turkestanicus Semenov, 1889: 195 ; Champenois, 1898: 346; Champenois, 1903: 140 (key), 147 (notes); Reitter, 1903: 136; Medvedev, 1960: 279 (key), 300 (redescription).

Glaphyrus sogdianus Semenov, 1892: 477 ; Champenois, 1898: 346 ( G. turkestanicus ,?var.); Champenois, 1903: 140 (key), 147 (notes; G. turkestanicus , var.); Semenov, 1903: 245; Reitter, 1903: 136 (G. turkestanicus, var.); Semenov, 1926: 51 ( G. turkestanicus , syn.); Medvedev, 1960: 279 (key), 302 (redescription; G. turkestanicus , ab.).

Type material examined. Holotype of Glaphyrus turkestanicus . Female, Tajikistan, Sughd Prov., “ot Yabana do Gusara [between Yaban and Gusar] 28.V.[18]88, A. Semenow [leg.] [h, Cyrillic script] / Glaphyrus turkestanicus m. typ. ♀ un. A. S. I.89 [h] / Glaphyr. turkestanicus m. ♀. Typ. XI.98 [h] A. Semenov det. [p] / Holotype Glaphyrus turkestanicus Semenov, 1889, Ghrejyan, Kalashian, Shokhin det., 2022 [p, red paper]” ( ZISP).

Lectotype of Glaphyrus sogdianus (designated here). Male, Tajikistan, Sughd Prov., “ Kshtut [Kul’yali], Samarkandsk. obl. 2.VII.[1878, added according to original description], V. Russow [leg.] [h, Cyrillic script] / 112740 [h] / Glaphyr. sogdianus m. ♀. typ. VI.92. A. Semenov det. [p]” ( ZISP).

Paralectotypes of Glaphyrus sogdianus . 7 males: label with same data as for lectotype / numbers 112731 , 112732 , 112734 , 112736 , 112738 , 112739 , 112741 , respectively [p] / “Glaphyr. sogdianus m. ♀. VI.92. [h] A. Semenov det. [p]” ( ZISP) .

All types of G. sogdianus with label: “ Lectotype (Paralectotype, respectively): Glaphyrus sogdianus Semenov, 1892 , design. Ghrejyan, Kalashian, Shokhin, 2022 [p, red paper]”.

Additional material examined. Without locality designation: “Turkestan, Reitter [p] / Museum Paris, 1993 Coll. J. Baraud [p]”, 1 male ( MNHN); “Turkestan [h] / Museum Paris, 1942, Coll. Dr. A. Chobaut [p] / Glaphyrus turkestanicus Sem. [h] J. Baraud det. 1987 [p]”, 1 male ( MNHN); “Turkestan, Reitter / Glaph. turkestanicus a. purpuricollis nov. Petrovitz [p, red paper] / coll. Petrovitz [p] / MNHG, ENTO, 00084552 [p]”, 1 male ( MHNG); “Turkestan [h] / Glaphyrus turkestanicus sogdianus Sem. [h] V. Lutshnik d. [p]”, 2 males ( ISCR); “Haberhauer, Turkestan 89 [p] / Glaphyrus turkestanicus Sem. det. Petrovitz [p] / coll. Petrovitz [p]”, 1 male ( MHNG); “Turkestan [p] / Museum Paris, Collection Ernest André, 1914 [p]”, 1 male ( MNHN). Uzbekistan: “Samarkand [h] / Museum Paris, ex. Coll. R. Oberthur [h] / turkestanicus Semenow v. sogdianus Semenow ♁ [h]”, 1 male ( MNHN); “Serafschan [Zarafshon], fl. Sching, Glasunov 1892 [p] / Glaphyr. sogdianus m. ♁. XI.98. [h] A. Semenov det. [p]”, 2 males ( ZISP); same data label / “Glaphyr. turkestanicus m. ♀. XI.98 [h] A. Semenov det. [p]”, 1 female ( ZISP); “Bukhara, Kempir-tepe, 20.5.1910, Zarudny [h, Cyrillic script]”, 2 males ( ZISP). Tajikistan: Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Prov. : “Khorog, Botsad [Botanical Garden], Pamir. 19.6.[19]75 [Iablokoff-Khnzorian leg., according to handwriting; Cyrillic script]”, 6 males, 1 female ( MKCY); same data, but M. Mardjanyan leg., 1 male, 1 female ( IZAY); Roshtqala, 7.VII.1988, V. Prasolov leg., 2 males, ( MKCY); Khatlon Prov., Shurabad, 2000–2500 m, 3–4.VII.2003, A. Perepechaenko leg., 2 males ( IZAY); same data label, 1 female ( ISCR). Afghanistan, Badakhshan Prov., “Shiva [Kol-e Shewah lake] 2500 m, 12.7.[19]53. Klapperich [leg.] [p] / Glaphyrus turkestanicus Semenow, D. Keith det. 2003 [p]”, 3 females ( MNHG).

Distribution. Southeastern Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, northeastern Afghanistan.

Notes. Semenov (1889) described Glaphyrus turkestanicus based on a single female from “Turkestan: promontoria montium Zerafschanensium inter Jaban et Gussar” (currently in Zeravshan River valley in Tajikistan). Later, Semenov (1892) described G. sogdianus from almost the same locality, “Turkestan occid.: vallis fl. Zerafschan: Pendshakent et Kshtut”, based on ten specimens considered as females. One of these syntypes is designated here as a lectotype to maintain nomenclatural stability in the taxonomically complicated group. Champenois (1898, 1903), after studying the types of both taxa provided to him by Semenov himself, established that types of G. sogdianus are actually males and considered G. sogdianus as a variety of G. turkestanicus with the reddish elytra having a weak green tint while the latter form has the green elytra. Reitter (1903) accepted Champenois’ opinion. Initially, Semenov (1903) disagreed with Champenois, but in the later work ( Semenov, 1926) he also considered G. sogdianus as a variety of G. turkestanicus . Actually, the coloration of elytra in G. turkestanicus varies from red to nearly metallic green, with all intermediate states, and Medvedev (1960) when downgrading G. sogdianus to the status of aberration did not use this character to distinguish both forms and provided only the coloration of legs as a distinguishing character, which in fact is also variable.

Figures

Figs 1–6. Glaphyrus (Eoglaphyrus) spp., habitus. 1–3, G. (E.) mardjanyanae sp. nov. (1, 2 – holotype, male; 3 – allotype, female); 4–6, G. (E.) turkestanicus Semenov, 1889 (4, 5 – male from “Turkestan; 6 – lectotype of G. sogdianus Semenov, 1892, male). Dorsal (1, 3, 4, 6) and ventral (2, 5) views.

Figs 7–18. Glaphyrus (Eoglaphyrus) spp. 7, 9, 11, 13, 17, G. (E.) mardjanyanae sp. nov. (holotype, male); 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, G. (E.) turkestanicus Semenov, 1889 (male from “Turkestan”); 15, G. (E.) afghanistanicus Skrylnik et Pak, 2021 (from Skrylnik & Pak, 2021); 18, G. sogdianus Semenov, 1892, labels of lectotype. Habitus laterally (7, 8); hind wings (9, 10); metafemur (11, 12); trochanter (13, 14); paramera and endophallus (15–17).