Cerocoma (Cerocoma) bernhaueri Pardo Alcaide, 1977

Turco, Federica & Bologna, Marco A., 2011, Systematic revision of the genus Cerocoma Geoffroy, 1762 (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Cerocomini) 2853, Zootaxa 2853 (1), pp. 1-71 : 22

Cerocoma (Cerocoma) bernhaueri Pardo Alcaide, 1977

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Cerocoma bernhaueri Pardo Alcaide, 1977: 64 .

Type locality. “ N. Iran, 56 km NW. Qazvin ” ( Pardo Alcaide 1977) .

Type specimens. Not examined.

Description. Male. Body metallic green with short and sparse setae; legs yellow with last protarsomere, meso- and metatarsi dark; mouthparts, including maxillary palpi, and antennae yellow.

Head transverse with very shallow frontal calli and slightly protruding eyes. Maxillary palpi very simple, only palpomeres II and III slightly widened; IV elongate ( Fig. 3V ). Antennae very weakly modified with the antennomere I bearing a short and narrow dorsal keel; III at least twice length of II; IV and V weakly expanded ventrally, the IV with a pointed expansion on the ventral side; IX rounded dorsally and pointed ventrally ( Fig. 2V ).

Legs slender with protibiae very weakly modified with an oblique, long and shallow concavity on the external side ( Fig. 4V ). Protarsomeres dorso-ventrally flattened.

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

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

Taxonomy. This species is very similar and closely related to C. dahli , with which in the past it has probably been confused. These two species are recognisable by: (a) male protibiae, with a weak depression on the external side in C. bernhaueri , almost convex in C. dahli ; (b) male antennomere IV, rounded in C. bernhaueri , pointed in C. dahli . These species have almost a vicariant distribution ranges, slightly overlapping in southeastern Turkey and northwestern Iran, C. bernhaueri being a more eastern element.

Distribution. E Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel-Palestine, Jordan, Azerbaijan, Iran.

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).