Nymphius ensifer ( Guillebeau, 1891 )

Bezděk, Jan, 2008, New species and subspecies of Nymphius (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) from Iran and Turkey, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1), pp. 79-93 : 85-86

Nymphius ensifer ( Guillebeau, 1891)

( Figs. 1 , 9 )

Luperus (Luperus) ensifer Guillebeau, 1891: 297 .

Luperus (Nymphius) ensifer: WEISE (1924) (catalogue), WINKLER (1930) (catalogue).

Calomicrus (Nymphius) ensifer: LOPATIN (2002) .

Nymphius ensifer: WILCOX (1973) (catalogue), FOGATO (1981), LOPATIN et al. (2003), WARCHAŁOWSKI (2003) (key).

Nymphyus [sic!] ensifer: CHIKATUNOV & PAVLÍČEK (2005) , CHIKATUNOV et al. (2006).

Type locality. ‘ Syrie, Anti-Liban, Zebedani’.

Type material. Not examined. According to FOGATO (1981) deposited in Muséum national d’Historie naturelle Paris.

Additional material examined (17 spec.). SYRIA: Burqush env., NW of Damascus, 25.v.1998, 8 ♁♁ 9 ♀♀, S. Kadlec leg. ( JBBC, FKLC).

Distribution. Turkey ( FOGATO 1981), Syria ( GUILLEBEAU 1891, FOGATO 1981, this paper), Israel ( LOPATIN 2002, LOPATIN et al. 2003, CHIKATUNOV & PAVLÍČEK 2005, CHIKATUNOV et al. 2006).

Figures

Figs. 1-4. Male abdomen (a – ventral view; b – lateral view). 1 – Nymphius ensifer (Guillebeau, 1891); 2 – N. forcipifer (Weise, 1900); 3 – N. gianassoi sp. nov.; 4 – N. lydius (Weise, 1886). Scale: 2 mm for Fig. 3; Figs. 1-2, and 4 redrawn from FOGATO (1981).

Figs. 9-16. Aedeagus (a – dorsal view; b – lateral view). 9 – Nymphius ensifer (Guillebeau, 1891); 10 – N. forcipifer (Weise, 1900); 11 – N. gianassoi sp. nov.; 12 – N. lydius (Weise, 1886); 13 – N. pravei (Jacobson, 1899); 14 – N. stylifer stylifer (Weise, 1899); 15 – N. stylifer ogloblini (Bogachev, 1947); 16 – N. stylifer kadleci ssp. nov. Scale: 1 mm for Figs. 11, 14-16; Figs. 9-10, 12-13 redrawn from FOGATO (1981).