Meloe (Eurymeloe) orobates

Riccieri, Alessandra, Spagoni, Lucrezia & Bologna, Marco A., 2024, Endemic and cryptic: different biogeographic histories of three Italian blister beetles of the genus Meloe (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Meloinae: Meloini), Insect Systematics and Diversity 8 (2), pp. 1-18 : 12

Meloe (Eurymeloe) orobates (Sánchez-Vialas& Ruiz& Recuero& Gutiérrez-Pérez & García-París& 2022) comb. n. ( Figs. 4A and 5A–C from Sánchez-Vialas et al. 2022)

Eurymeloe (Bolognaia) orobates Sánchez-ViWlWs et Wl. 2022: 33, Figs. 2I , 3A–D , 4A –?, 5A–C, 6B.

No specimens of this mountWin species from SpWin hWve been studied in the present work. However, we WnWlyzed one specimen (MABC) from MWlWgW province (? BWrrWnco de MWderW) similWr to M. orobates especiWlly becWuse of the pronotum shWpe but lWcking the chWrWcteristic reddish setWtion. Therefore, its possible Wttribution to

M. orobates needs further confirmWtion. We refer to Sánchez-ViWlWs et Wl. (2022) for morphologicWl Wnd biologicWl informWtion.

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Fig. 4. Male habitus, doksal view, of %A) M. orobates %fkom: Sánchez-Vialas et al. 2022), %B) M. digiuliorum sp. n., %C) M. apenninicus, %;) M. rugosus. Scale bak 1 mm %https://inkscape.okg/it/).

Fig. 5.;oksal and latekal views of male genitalia:%A–C) M. orobates %fkom:Sánchez-Vialas et al. 2022), %;–F) M. digiuliorum sp.n., %G–I) M. apenninicus, %J–L) M. rugosus. Scale bak 0.5 mm %https://inkscape.okg/it/).

Fig. 2. Multilocus %16S, COI, CA;, and 28S) phylogenetic tkee of Meloe %Eurymeloe). Topology cokkesponds to the maximum likelihood %ML) tkee. Clades ake indicated with letteks %a–t). Only suppokted values of nodes %UFBootstkap,UFB ≥ 95 ands SH-aLRT ≥ 80%; postekiok pkobability, PP ≥ 0.95) ake kepokted %SH-LRT/ UFB/PP).;ashes %–) indicate non-suppokted values. Clades of species that weke not the main focus of the study ake collapsed.Fok a non-collapsed veksion of the tkee, see Supplementaky Fig. S4 %https://inkscape.okg/it/).

Fig. 3. Maximum likelihood tkee based on COI sequences of analyzed specimens of Meloe %Eurymeloe). Only suppokted values of nodes %UFBootstkap,UFB ≥ 95 and SH-aLRT ≥ 80%) ake kepokted %SH-LRT/UFB).;ashes %–) indicate non-suppokted values.Coloked vektical baks on the kight shown species delimitation analysis kesults %ASAP, ad hoc, and mPTP) %https://inkscape.okg/it/).