Microcosmodes cruciatus

Häckel, Martin & Azadbakhsh, Saeed, 2016, Two new species of Microcosmodes Strand (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Panagaenini) from Oman and Iran, Zootaxa 4137 (4), pp. 553-560 : 559

Key to species of M. cruciatus group

(except continental Africa and Madagascar)

1 Body ovoid, pronotum with anterior margin markedly narrower than base, pronotal base slightly narrower than elytral base. Elytron always with two orange maculae, both humeral and apical macula extensive and fully developed, with intervals colored; humeral macula semicircular, laterally widened and covering entire basal third of elytron to humerus; apical macula nearly circular, reaching part of elytral margin. Black reminder of elytra forms pattern of Maltese cross ( Fig. 1 , Fig. 4 ). Oman, Yemen.............................................................................. M. arabicus sp. nov.

- Body subparallel, pronotum with anterior margin slightly narrower than base, pronotal base markedly narrower than elytral base. Elytron rarely with two orange maculae, more often maculae absent ( Fig. 2 , Figs 6–9 ); if maculae present then much reduced, often to minor humeral residua ( Fig. 7 ); if both maculae are present then humeral reaches only a small part of elytral margin, never close to humerus, and being more transverse than semicircular; apical macula never reaching elytral margin ( Fig. 2 , Fig. 8 ). Iran.................................................................... M. perscius sp. nov.

Figures

FIGURE 1 Microcosmodes arabicus sp. nov., HT (male): a. dorsal habitus; b. aedeagus, lateral view; c. aedeagus, dorsal view to apex.

FIGURE 2 Microcosmodes persicus sp. nov., HT (male): a. dorsal habitus; b. aedeagus, lateral view; c. aedeagus, dorsal view to apex.

FIGURES 4 – 11. Microcosmodes cruciatus group, dorsal habitus (Scale bar = 5 mm): FIg. 4. Microcosmodes arabicus sp. nov., HT (male). FIg. 5. Microcosmodes cruciatus (Dejean, 1831), HT (male, MNHN). FIg. 6. Microcosmodes persicus sp. nov., HT (male). FIg. 7. Microcosmodes persicus sp. nov., PT, female. FIg. 8. Microcosmodes persicus sp. nov., PT, female. FIg. 9. Microcosmodes persicus sp. nov., PT, female. FIg. 10. Microcosmodes flavopilosus (Laferté-Sénectere, 1851), male, Pakistan (Sind). FIg. 11. Microcosmodes laetus (Dejean, 1831), male, Sierra Leone (det. by Alluaud, MNHN).