Gomezzuritus rubripes ( Pic, 1897 ) Kazantsev Michal Motyka & Bocak, 2023

Kazantsev, Sergey V., Motyka, Michal & Bocak, Ladislav, 2023, European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 888, pp. 159-174 : 169

Gomezzuritus rubripes ( Pic, 1897) comb. nov.

Fig. 1E

Eros (Pyropterus) rubripes – Pic 1897: 220.

Pyropterus rubripes Pic – Kleine 1933: 38.

Remark

Pyropterus rubripes is transferred from Pyropterus to Gomezzuritus based on morphological similarity.

Material examined

ALGERIA • 1 ♀ (lectotype of E. rubripes ); Forêt des Beni Ghorbi ; Jun. 1897; MNHP .

MOROCCO • 1 ♂; Rif Mts, Bab-Berret–Ketama road ; alt. 1600 m; 34.933° N, 04.6001° W; 1 May 2002; J. Kalab leg.; Cedrus forest; first record from Morocco; ICM .

Figures

Fig. 1. Phylogenetic relationships of pyropterine genera and their closest relatives (modified from Motyka et al. in press). B–E. The general appearance of Western Palaearctic Dictyopterini Houlbert, 1922. B–C. Benibotarus alternatus (Fairmaire, 1856), ♂. D. B. longicornis (Reiche, 1878), ♂. E. B. rubripes (Pic, 1897), ♂. F. Distribution of Benibotarus Kôno, 1932 in the Western Palaearctic region. Nomenclature follows the placement of species before taxonomic changes discussed in the present study. The northern part of the range of B. taygetanus (Pic, 1905) is not shown (see Bocakova & Bocak 1987; Kazantsev 2012a).