A review of the species of Anaspis (s. str.) similar to A. nigripes Brisout and A. apfelbecki Schilsky, with the description of three new species (Coleoptera: Scraptiidae)
Author
Levey, Brian
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Zootaxa
2020
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10.11646/zootaxa.4778.3.4
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Anaspis emarginata
Schilsky
(
Figs 1
,
21
,
30
)
1♂
(
BMNH
)
Mongolia
bor. Reitter. Possibly
syntype
of
A. emarginata
.
1♂
(
ZMHB
) MVR,
Bogd-ul
Ulan Bator
,
21.vi.1988
,
U. Göllner. These
specimens have the vertex of the head, pronotum and elytra black; fronto-clypeus below antennal insertions and labrum yellow; proepisternum, meso-, metasternum and abdomen dark brown to black; legs light brown; antenna with first six segments yellow and the last five segments brown
.
3♂
,
3♀
(BMNH) N.
China
, Heilunkiang, Erlungshan,
6.vi.1965
&
29.V.1966
, P.M. Hammond. These speci- mens are predominantly yellow. The males have only the abdomen, upper part of the vertex and only the most apical one to four antennal segments dark brown to black. The females sometimes have the abdomen and head also entirely yellow, and only the last segment of the antennae dark. This variation in colour is not atypical in
Anaspis
species and is the reason I suspect from the original description that
A. mongolica
is probably the same species as
A. emarginata
.