Microhoria sidonia ( Truqui, 1855 )

Telnov, Dmitry, 2022, Revisional notes on the genus Microhoria Chevrolat, 1877 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthicidae) from the Eastern Mediterranean and Turkey, with new descriptions, an annotated catalogue, and a key, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 22 (2), pp. 195-312 : 289-290

Microhoria sidonia ( Truqui, 1855)

Anthicus sidonius Truqui, 1855: 365 (description).

Anthicus sidonius – Lacordaire 1859: 597 (checklist); Gemminger & Harold 1870: 2100 (checklist); Baudi di Selve 1877: 132 (supplementary description); Marseul 1879: 191, 218 (key, supplementary description); Marseul 1887: 353 (checklist); Pic 1896b: 180 (key, record – Turkey); Pic 1897a: 390 (checklist); Pic 1911: 73 (checklist, record – Eastern Europe); Lucas 1920: 103 (checklist); Winkler 1927: 849 (checklist); Bodenheimer 1937: 133 (checklist). Anthicus (Bifossicollis) sidonius – Sahlberg 1913b: 193 (records – Israel, Lebanon, Turkey). Anthicus (Immicrohoria) sidonius – Hariri 1968: 207 (checklist, bibliography).

Microhoria sidonia – Uhmann et al. 2005: 5, 46 (new combination, biogeography, bibliography, distribution); Chandler et al. 2008: 442 (checklist); Kejval & Chandler 2020: 131 (erroneously assigned to the M. terminata species group); Telnov 2020a: 613 (checklist).

Type material. Not studied.

New material. Not available.

Supplementary description of this species is not yet possible. According to its original description, this is a large species the size of M. gigas , with dark head, pale, dorsally densely punctured pronotum, dark elytra with small pale markings and elytral apex ‘… late rotundata, juxta angulum internum sinuata’ ( Truqui 1855: 365). Due to the body length, colouration and peculiar shape of elytral apex this species appears close to or conspecific with Microhoria gigas (also see above).

Distribution. Israel, Lebanon, Syria, southern Turkey. Record from “Eastern Europe” by Pic (1911) is erroneous. Uhmann et al. (2005) pointed on that there are no verified records of this species known from Syria.

Chorotype. SW­Asiatic (1.13 SWA).