Cerocoma (Meloides) barthelemyi Baudi, 1878

Turco, Federica & Bologna, Marco A., 2011, Systematic revision of the genus Cerocoma Geoffroy, 1762 (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Cerocomini) 2853, Zootaxa 2853 (1), pp. 1-71 : 30-31

Cerocoma (Meloides) barthelemyi Baudi, 1878

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Cerocoma barthelemyi Baudi, 1878b: 358 .

Cerocoma syriaca Abeille de Perrin, 1880: 235 . syn. n.

Cerocoma (Cerocoma) barthelemii, Kaszab, 1951: 262 , 267, 271.

Cerocoma (Cerocoma) barthelemii var. haifensis Kaszab, 1951: 262 , 268.

Cerocoma (Meloides) barthelemii, Dvořák, 1990: 2 , 9.

Type locality. “ Syria ” ( Baudi 1878b). During the Ottoman Empire, the name Syria was used to indicate the whole Levant as well as the Turkish Hatay province and surrounding areas. Note that no locality label is attached to the specimen from Baudi’s series, here designated as lectotype .

Type specimens. Two syntypes have been examined and designated as lectotype and paralectotype, as well as the holotype of the variety haifensis . Seven syntypes of the synonym C. syriaca have been also examined but we decided to designate only the first specimen as lectotype because of the extremely poor condition of the remaining specimens (see below):

Lectotype ♂: m (white, handwritten) // nov. sp. (white, handwritten) // C. Muhlfeldi /Sch. var. (white, handwritten) // LECTOTYPUS / Cerocoma / barthelemyi / Baudi / M. Bologna des. 2007 (red, printed and handwritten) // Cerocoma / barthelemyi Baudi / M.A. Bologna det. 2007 (white, printed and handwritten) ( MRSN ex coll. De Breme).

1 paralectotype ♀: f (white, handwritten) ( MRSN ex coll. De Breme) // PARALECTOTYPUS / Cerocoma / barthelemyi / Baudi / M. Bologna des. 2007 (red, printed and handwritten).

Holotype ♂: Syrien / Haifa / Reitter. (white with black frame, printed) // Rahol. / Jaffa (white, handwritten) // Holotypus 1951 ♂ / Cerocoma Barthelemii / ab. Haifensis / Kaszab (white with red frame, printed and handwritten) ( HNHM). The last three left mesotarsomeres and the last three right antennomeres are missing .

Lectotype ♂: Nazareth (handwritten) // (type) Syriaca (handwritten) // Ab. n. sp. (handwritten) // Nazareth (handwritten) // LECTOTYPE ♂ / Cerocoma syriaca / Abeille de Perrin, 1880 / Turco & Bologna des. 2009 (red, printed) ( MNHN ex coll. Abeille de Perrin ). Right protibia and tarsomeres are missing .

The following syntypes were not designed as paralectotypes:

1 specimen (sex indeterminate): Ouad (white, handwritten) // MUSÉUM PARIS / 1919 / COLL. A. DE PER- RIN (azure, handwritten) ( MNHN ex coll. Abeille de Perrin ). The specimen is damaged and only elytra, wings, ventral side of thorax and part of the abdomen are left .

1 ♂: same labels as previous specimen ( MNHN ex coll. Abeille de Perrin ). The specimen is damaged and only elytra, wings, abdomen, left mid leg and right hind leg are left .

1 ♀: same labels as previous specimen ( MNHN ex coll. Abeille de Perrin ). Left fore leg, left last mesotarsomere, left metatarsomeres and last two right metatarsomeres are missing .

1 ♀: MUSÉUM PARIS / 1919 / COLL. A. DE PERRIN (azure, handwritten) ( MNHN ex coll. Abeille de Perrin ). Specimen damaged: head, right fore leg (coxa, trochanter and part of the femur still present), right mesotarsomeres and part of the mesotibia are missing .

1 ♂: TBD (white, handwritten) // MUSÉUM PARIS / 1919 / COLL. A. DE PERRIN (azure, handwritten) ( MNHN ex coll. Abeille de Perrin ). Only elytra, wings and part of the legs are left .

1 specimen (impossible to specify the sex because of the few parts left, see below): ZBD (white, handwritten) / / MUSÉUM PARIS / 1919 / COLL. A. DE PERRIN (azure, handwritten) ( MNHN ex coll. Abeille de Perrin ). Only elytra, wings, hind legs (femora badly damaged) and part of the ventral side of thorax are left .

Description. Male. Body green metallic with yellow setae, particularly long and dense on head and pronotum; legs, antennae and mouthparts, including maxillary palpi, yellow-orange; frontal calli and area between calli orange.

Head transverse with slightly protruding eyes. Maxillary palpi ( Fig. 3J ) modified with palpomere II wide, flattened and curved; III swollen and weakly rounded on the external side; IV very elongate only slightly widened apically (about 4.5x as long as wide). Antennae modified with antennomere I bearing a long, narrow and bent expansion on the external side and dorsal keel very wide and high, slightly curved apically; III–VI variously shaped and expanded ventrally; V with short setae on distal face of ventral laminar expansion; VI with 2 tufts of long setae ventrally and a very long, narrow and curved expansion on ventral side; IX transverse, apically rounded, dorsally slightly flattened and dorsal edge bilobate ( Fig. 2J ).

Protibia with dorsal keel straight and only slightly rounded apically in lateral view ( Fig. 4J ). Protarsomeres weakly dorso-ventrally flattened; II with an obvious dorsal bulge; protarsomere III about as long as V, excluding claws.

Gonostyli, in lateral view, straight, with apical lobes directed forward; apical lobes, in dorsal view, swollen and diverging. Apex of aedeagus pointed; aedeagal hooks subequal in size (the subapical only slightly larger). Sclerotised hooks of endophallus small and very close from each other, subequal in size (the subapical slightly larger), the apical pointing outwards and the subapical backwards ( Fig. 6J ).

Female. Not modified. Refer to key for diagnostic characters.

Taxonomy. After the examination of types of C. syriaca Abeille de Perrin, 1880 , this species resulted a synonym of C. barthelemyi (syn. n.). Type material was damaged, but one male was still sufficiently preserved to make possible the recognition of the species as synonym of C. barthelemyi .

Distribution. Turkey, Armenia, Syria, Israel-Palestine, N Iran. Citations from Greece ( Dvořák, 1989, 1990) need confirmation.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Male right antenna, lateral view: A, C. schreberi; B, C. martae; C, C. ephesica; D, C. prevezaensis; E, C. festiva; F, C. graeca; G, C. malatyensis; H, C. albopilosa; I, C. longiseta; J, C. barthelemyi; K, C. vahli; L, C. scovitzi; M, C. latreillei; N, C. adamovichiana; O, C. confusa; P, C. azurea; Q, C. turcica; R, C. muehlfeldi; S, C. schaefferi; T, C. prochaskana; U, C. dahli; V,C. bernhaueri; W, C. simplicicornis; X, C. gloriosa; Y, C. rapillyi; Z, C. marginiventris; AA, C. macedonica; AB, C. kunzei; AC, C. bodemeyeri. Scale bar = 1 mm.

FIGURE 3. Male right maxillary palp, dorsal view: for lettering refer to caption to Fig. 1. Scale bars = 1 mm (1: C–E, G–J, L– R, Y, AA–AC; 2: B, F, K, S–T, X, Z; 3: A, U–W).

FIGURE 4. Male right protibia, lateral view: for lettering refer to caption to Fig. 1. Scale bar = 1 mm.

FIGURE 6. Male external genitalia (from left to right: tegmen, dorsal and lateral views; aedeagus, lateral view): for lettering refer to caption to Fig. 1. Scale bars = 1 mm (1: A–E, H, L–M, R; 2: F–G, I–K, N–P, S–T, X–Y, AA–AC; 3: Q, U–W, Z).