Oxythyrea abigailoides Mikšić, 1978

Král, David, Šípek, Petr, Sommer, David & Vondráček, Dominik, 2023, Resurrection of Oxythyrea abigailoides Mikšić, 1978 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) based on new morphological, morphometrical and molecular data, Zootaxa 5301 (5), pp. 561-574 : 563-566

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Oxythyrea abigailoides Mikšić, 1978 , resurrected species

( Figs. 2A–B View FIGURE 2 , 3A, 3C View FIGURE 3 , 4A–C View FIGURE 4 )

Oxythyrea dulcis abigailoides Mikšić, 1978: 69 (original description).

Oxythyrea dulcis abigailoides: Sabatinelli 1981: 56 (review, key, biology); Mikšić 1982a: 67 (key, distribution), 1982b: 38 (monograph, key); Baraud 1992: 820 (monograph, key); Keith 2001: 95 (distribution); Nikčević 2010: 46 (distribution, conservation); Tauzin 2015: 118 (review, distribution).

Oxythyrea abigail Reiche & Saulcy, 1856 : Mikšić 1977: 41 (key, distribution, biology).

Oxythyrea abigailoides (as a junior subjective synonym to O. dulcis ): Krajcik 1998: 70 (catalogue); Smetana 2006: 298 (catalogue); Bezděk 2016: 389 (catalogue); Vondráček et al. 2018: figs. 15f–h (habitat preferences); Byk et al. 2022: 13 (distribution); Vondráček et al. 2023: 2 (diversity, habitat preferences, conservation); Schoolmeesters 2023 (online catalogue).

Type locality. “Vom “ Grossen Sandstrand ” bei Ulcinj an der Küste der Crna Gora [= Montenegro, Ulcinj env., Velika Plaža beach, ca 41°53’55”N 19°17’47”E]” GoogleMaps .

Published records. Montenegro: Mikšić (1977): “Auf dem “Grossen Sandstrand” gegen 5 km südöstlich von Ulcinj im Küstenland der Crna Gora ”; Sabatinelli (1981): “ Montenegro ”; Mikšić (1982a): “Grosser Sandstrand bei Ulcinj, Crna Gora ”; Mikšić (1982b): “Grosser Sandstrand bei Ulcinj, Crna Gora ”; Baraud (1992): “littoral de Crna Gora (Ulcinj, loc. Type)”; Keith (2001): “ Monténégro ”; Krajcik (1998): “ Crna Gora ”; Smetana (2006): “ Yugoslavia ( Crna Gora)”; Tauzin (2015): “ Crna Gora ( Monténégro)”; Bezděk (2016): “ Montenegro ”; Vondráček et al. (2018): “ Montenegro ”; Vondráček et al. (2023): “Ulcinj Municip., central part of Velika Plaža near Ulcinj and Doni Štoj, ca sea level”; Byk et al. (2022): “Bojana at Ulcinj”; Schoolmeesters (2023): “ Montenegro ”. Greece: Vondráček et al. (2018): “ Greece: Peloponnese, Phalasarna, Kaiafa”; Vondráček et al. (2023): “NW Zacharo, Kaiafa lake (seashore), 4 m; W of Gialova, Gialova lagoon (sea shore), 4m ”.

Type material examined. Montenegro: Holotype (♁) ( CNHM) “ MONTENEGRO | ULCINJ | VELIKA PLAŽA | MIKŠIĆ 2 . V.[19]77 [hw] || HOLOTYPUS [red, p] || OXYTHYREA | DULCIS RTT. | S. ABIGAILOIDES NOV. [blue, hw, Mikšić’s hand] | | Miksic det., 19 [p] 79 [blue, hw, Mikšić’s hand] | 600:ZAG;ZEC1 | 1590. | coll. Mikšić [p]” (see Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 ) . Allotype ♀ and 27 unsexed paratypes ( CNHM), same data as in holotype .

Additional material examined. Montenegro: 5 ♁♁, 2 ♀♀ ( CUPC, NMPC), Ulcinj Municipality , central part of Velika Plaza near Ulcinj and Doni Štoj, 41°53’37.53”N 19°17’36.87”E, ca. sea level, 17.–18.v.2016, J. Kadlec, P. Šípek & D. Vondráček lgt GoogleMaps . Greece: 18 ♁♁, 8 ♀♀ ( CUPC, DSCP, LHCP, NMPC, SJCP), NW of Zacharo , Kaiafa lake (seashore), 37°29’59”N 21°36’20”E, 4 m, 15.iv.2018, L. Hrůzová, D. Král & D. Sommer lgt.; GoogleMaps 34 unsexed spec. ( ZSMC, ex. coll. Hillert), the same data but O. Hillert lgt.; GoogleMaps 3 ♁♁ ( NMPC), W of Gialova, Gialova lagoon (seashore), 36°57’25”N 21°40’21”E, 10 m, 15.iv.2018, L. Hrůzová, D. Král & D. Sommer lgt GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. Body ( Figs. 2A–B View FIGURE 2 , 3A View FIGURE 3 ) remarkable robust, enlarged, and rounded; dorsal surface sparsely but distinctly setaceous; dorsal surface totally black without metallic lustre. Pronotum ( Figs. 2A View FIGURE 2 , 3A View FIGURE 3 ) remarkably setaceous with 4–6 (rarely only with basal pair) whitish spots in two longitudinal rows; lateral margin as a rule with three distinctly separated spots from each other on each side, rarely with interrupted white lines consisting of three semicontiguous spots. Scutellum surface ( Fig. 3C View FIGURE 3 ) finely shallowly microsculptured. Elytra with several rounded whitish spots, more or less equal in size, not connected to each other ( Figs. 2A View FIGURE 2 , 3A View FIGURE 3 ). Pygidium with six whitish spots. Male with triangular whitish spots at middle of visible abdominal ventrite 1 and 2 and rarely with additional one whitish spot on visible abdominal ventrites 3 and 4 ( Fig. 2B View FIGURE 2 ). These spots absent in females.Abdomen ventrally on each side with three short whitish lines and more distally with two longer whitish lines in male ( Fig. 2B View FIGURE 2 ), one such longer line in female. Lamina exterior of parameres relatively tinny in lateral aspect ( Fig. 4A–C View FIGURE 4 ); lamina interior relatively narrow, tip at sharper angle in dorsofrontal aspect ( Fig. 4A–C View FIGURE 4 ).

Differential diagnosis. Based on our examination of adult beetles a morphological differential diagnosis of O. abigailoides , resurrected species, from O. dulcis is summarized below in Table 1 View TABLE 1 .

Distribution. Greece (Ionian coast of Peloponnesos) and Montenegro. For details see Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 .