Timarcha (T.) sinuatocollis, Fairmaire, 1862

Petitpierre, Eduard & Anichtchenko, Alexander, 2018, Endophallus structure: a promising tool for cryptic species identification in Timarcha Samouelle, 1819 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae), Zootaxa 4446 (3), pp. 361-383 : 374

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scientific name	Timarcha (T.) sinuatocollis
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T. (T.) sinuatocollis Fairmaire, 1862

Material: 2 ♂: CAMpELLES, PYRENEES Of GIRONA, SpAIN, 12.10.1970, LEG. E. PETITpIERRE (EPC).

Description: SpECIES Of AN AMBIGUOUS pOSITION BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN CLASSIfIEd AS AN INdEpENdENT SpECIES (BECHYNÉ 1948A, 1948B, 1953; PETITpIERRE 1970B; WARCHAłOWSKI 2003, 2010), A SUBSpECIES Of T. goettingensis ( WINKELMAN & DEBREUIL 2008), OR A SUBSpECIES Of T. interstitialis FAIRMAIRE, 1861 ( JEANNE 1967). IT IS CHARACTERIZEd BY THE SMALL SIZE ( USUALLY LESS THAN 10.5 MM.) ANd THE SLIGHTLY SINUOUS OR STRAIGHT pOSTERIOR ANGLES Of pRONOTUM. DISTRIBUTEd IN EASTERN PYRENEES Of SpAIN ANd FRANCE.

ENdOpHALLUS ( fIGS 22A, B View FIGURES 22–25 ) STRONGLY CURVEd IN A Z-SHApE. BASAL pROTUBERANCES SMALL BUT dISTINCT. MANUBRIUM RHOMBOId ANd WELL SCLEROTIZEd ANd fLAGELLUM THIN ANd WEAKLY SCLEROTIZEd.

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FIGURES 22–25. Endophallus of “T. goettingensis” group: 22a, b—T. sinuatocollis (Campelles); 23a, b—T. monserratensis (Montseny); 24a, b—T. interstitialis (Canet); 25a, b—T. piochardi (Alió). Scale = 1 mm.