Lobrathium azizsancari, Anlaş & Online & Version, 2020
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Lobrathium azizsancari |
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Lobrathium azizsancari View in CoL sp. nov. ( Figures 1A–1K View Figure 1 and 2 View Figure 2 , Table 1)
Type material – Holotype: TURKEY: ♂, ‘‘TR. Sivas, İmranlı, Sivas-Erzincan road, Kızıldağ Pass , 39°51′19″N, 38°24′57″E, 2125 m, 16.IV.2019, leg. Anlaş, Örgel and Köksal GoogleMaps , Holotypus ♂, Lobrathium azizsancari sp. nov. det. S. Anlaş 2019” ( AZMM) . Paratypes: 4♂♂, 4♀♀, same data as the holotype ( AZMM) ; 1♂, 2♀♀, Sivas, Kangal, Karacaören 6 km E, 39°02′17″N, 37°44′32″E, 1460 m, 20.IV.2019, leg. Anlaş, Örgel and Köksal ( AZMM) GoogleMaps .
Description: Measurements (in mm) and ratios (range, n = 12): AL: 1.88–2.42, 2.04; HL: 0.89–1.04, 0.98; HW: 0.81–0.95, 0.89; PL: 0.94–1.15, 1.07; PW: 0.77–0.89, 0.84; EL: 0.89–1.04, 0.97; EW: 0.91–1.06, 1.00; AW: 0.90–1.09, 1.01; ML: 1.26–1.32, 1.30 (n = 6); TiL: 0.86–0.95, 0.91; TaL: 0.61–0.69, 0.66; TL: 6.4–8.4, 7.1; HL/HW: 1.09–1.10, 1.10; PW/HW: 0.94–0.95, 0.95; PW/PL: 0.77–0.82, 0.79; EL/PL: 0.90–0.95, 0.91; EW/PW: 1.18–1.19, 1.19; EL/EW: 0.98– 0.98, 0.98; AW/EW: 0.99–1.03, 1.01; TiL/TaL: 1.38–1.40, 1.39.
Habitus as in Figure 1A View Figure 1 . Body length 6.4–8.4 mm. Colouration: head and pronotum entirely blackish and appearing bright; elytra blackish, posteriorly each with more or less distinctly determined reddish-yellow spot covering more than one-third of elytral area; abdomen blackish and appears matt; mandibles reddish-brown, antennae and legs reddish.
Head weakly oblong ( Figures 1A–1B View Figure 1 and see ratios HL/HW), widest behind eyes, approximately 1.10 times as long as wide; punctation coarse but distinct, sparser and larger in median dorsal area, denser and smaller in lateral area, and interstices without microsculpture; pubescence long, blackish and sparse; eyes moderately large. Antennae long, 1.88–2.42 mm; antennomere 3 longer than 2; 4–10 oblong; 10 approximately 1.4 times as long as wide ( Figure 1C View Figure 1 ).
Pronotum distinctly longer than wide, approximately 0.80 times as long as wide and 0.95 times as wide as head ( Figures 1A–1B View Figure 1 ; see ratios PW/PL and PW/HW); punctation similar to that of head, moderately denser and larger, with impunctate midline; interstices without microsculpture; pubescence blackish and sparser than head.
Elytra approximately as wide as long and broader than pronotum, 1.20 times as wide as pronotum ( Figures 1A– 1B View Figure 1 ; see ratios EL/EW, and EW/PW); punctation coarser than that of head and pronotum, arranged in irregular series; interstices without microreticulation; pubescence reddish brown and sparse. Hind wings present.
Abdomen approximately as wide as elytra ( Figure 1A View Figure 1 ; see ratio AW/EW), widest at segment VII; punctation fine and moderately dense; surface with shallow microsculpture composed of transverse meshes; pubescence dark brown; posterior margin of tergite VII with palisade fringe.
Female. Sternite VIII posteriorly weakly concave in middle ( Figure 1D View Figure 1 ). Posterior margin of tergite VIII distinctly convex ( Figure 1E View Figure 1 ).
Male. Posterior margin of tergite VIII strongly convex ( Figure 1F View Figure 1 ); sternite VII transverse and without modified setae, posterior margin of sternite VII broadly concave, with shallow median impression posteriorly ( Figure 1G View Figure 1 ); sternite VIII with pronounced median impression in posterior margin, this impression with approximately 60 modified short, stout, and black setae, posterior excision moderately deep and U-shaped ( Figure 1H View Figure 1 ); aedeagus approximately 1.25–1.30 mm long, ventral process long, with distinct ventral teeth in lateral view ( Figure 1I View Figure 1 ), ventral process triangular, apically acute, and symmetric in ventral view ( Figure 1J View Figure 1 ); internal sac with apical pair of two sclerotised spines ( Figures 1I–1K View Figure 1 ).
Etymology. The specific epithet is in honor of a Turkish scientist, Dr. Aziz Sancar, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Differential diagnosis: This new species was the ninth endemic representative of the genus to be recorded from Turkey. The new species was separated from all of the other congeners in Turkey by its different morphology of the male sexual characters. It additionally differed from the other congeners previously known from Turkey as follows:
From L. ciliciae Bordoni by darker colouration, larger eyes, longer elytra, stronger convex of the posterior margin of male tergite VIII and more obtusely pointed ventral process of aedeagus.
From L. pravum Assing & Schülke by relatively longer body (in L. pravum : 6.3–7.7 mm), smaller eyes, shorter elytra and by less distinctly defined reddish yellow spot in elytral area (in L. pravum : with much broader yellow spots covering the posterior half of the elytral area), posterior margin of male tergite VIII more strongly convex (in L. pravum : tergite VIII with weakly convex in posterior margin), and completely different aedeagus.
From L. rugipenne Hochhuth by darker colouration, smaller eyes, shorter elytra, less distinctly determined reddish yellow spot in elytral area, and completely different male sexual characters.
From L. schillhammeri Assing & Schülke by the longer body (in L. schillhammeri : average 7 mm), smaller eyes, shorter elytra, stronger convex of the posterior margin of male tergite VIII, and completely different ventral process of aedeagus in lateral and ventral view.
From L. unidentatum Assing by smaller body (in L. unidentatum : 8.0– 8.7 mm), darker colouration, by much more modified setae in posterior margin of sternite VIII
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(in L. unidentatum : approximately 30 strongly modified short and stout black setae), and more obtusely pointed ventral process of aedeagus.
From L. wunderlei Assing by darker colouration, less distinct puncturation in head, stronger convex of the posterior margin of male tergite VIII, by lack of modified setae and less distinct median impression of the posterior of male sternite VII (in L. wunderlei : posterior margin of sternite VII with triangular impression with short and thin black setae) and more broadly concave of posterior margin of male sternite VII (in L. wunderlei : the posterior margin moderetely concave, in the middle with small convexity), by larger aedeagus (in L. wunderlei : aedeagus length average of 1.2 mm) and more obtusely pointed ventral process of aedeagus.
From L. yagmuri Assing by less circular head shape (In L. yagmuri : posterior angles broadly rounded), relatively smaller eyes and longer antennae, by more distinctly determined reddish yellow spot in elytral area, shorter elytra (In L. yagmuri : elytra approximately 1.20 times as wide), stronger convex of the posterior margin of male tergite VIII (in L. yagmuri : tergite VIII with weakly convex in posterior margin), more broadly concave of posterior margin of male sternite VII and less distinct median median impression (In L. yagmuri : sternite VII with distinct median impression of triangular shape in posterior two-thirds, this impression with short, stout, and black modified setae), by less modified setae in posterior margin of sternite VIII, by more obtusely pointed ventral process of aedeagus.
From L. heinzi (Korge) , L. frater (Korge) , and L. trapezuntis (Bordoni) , by smaller body, the bicoloured elytra, and completely different ventral process of aedeagus in lateral and ventral view.
Bionomics: The type specimens were collected in a partly flooded pasture under stones with melting snow, at an altitude of 2125 m and on the bank of a small stream, at an altitude of 1460 m.
Faunistic records
Lobrathium anale (Lucas, 1846)
Material examined: ALGERIA: 1♂, 1♀, 20.V.1988, Algérie, Gde Kabylie, Oued Sébaou, W. Dellys, leg. Besuchet, Löbl & Buchardt ( MHNG) . 2♂♂, Algeria, Bou Berak, coll. Reitter ( HNHM) . 2♂♂, 3♀♀, Algeria ( HNHM) . 1♂, 1♀, Algerie, Reitter ( NMPC) . LIBYA: 1♂, 1♀, 05.IV.1979, J. Nefusa, Rumia, (= Jebel Nefusa Mts. , Tripolitania), leg. Hirka ( NMPC) . MOROCCO: 1♂, Morocco, Mus Djebel, Beni- Jblane, 1800 m, leg. Comellini ( MHNG) . 1♂, Morocco ( NMPC) . SPAIN: 1♂, 30.V.1966, Espagne, Cadiz, Laguna de la Janda, leg. Besuchet ( MHNG) .
Distribution: According to Assing (2007), L. anale is widespread in North Africa from Tunisia to Morocco, and also on the Canary Islands, Iberian peninsula, southern
France, Sardinia, and Sicily, but it has not been previously recorded from Libya.
Lobrathium angulatum Assing, 2005
Material examined: GREECE: 1♀, 04.V.1973, Gréce, Epire, Polydroson, leg. Löbl ( MHNG) .
Distribution: This species was known only from its type locality in Kato Kalentino, Ipeiros, Greece (Assing, 2005).
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