A review of Labidostomis species similar to L. longimana from southeastern Europe with descriptions of two new species from Greece and Turkey (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Cryptocephalinae: Clytrini)
Author
Regalin, Renato
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Labidostomis
(
Labidostomis
)
longimana
(
Linnaeus, 1760
)
(
Figs 7
,
12
,
18
,
24
,
30
,
36
)
Chrysomela longimana
Linnaeus, 1760
: 170
(original description).
Type locality.
“Svecia”.
Types examined.
Not examined. The photographs of two Linnean specimens (♂ and ♀, probably syntypes) are available at the pages of the Linnean Society of London: http://linnean-online.org/insects.html.
Additional specimens examined.
51 specimens
—
CROATIA
:
Sisak
,
2 ♂♂
,
J. Fleischer
leg. (
NMPC
)
;
Skrad
,
vii.1913,
1
♂
2 ♀♀
,
J. Obenberger
leg (
NMPC
)
;
Env.
d´
Agram
[=
Zagreb
], 1874,
7 ♂♂
13 ♀♀
,
Brusina
leg. (
IRSB
)
.
GREECE
:
Graecia
,
1 ♂
,
Krüper
leg. (
NMPC
)
;
Central
Macedonia
:
Chalkidiki, Arnaia,
40°28´N
23°32´E
,
700 m
, 3.
vii.2014,
1
♀,
Z. Kraus
leg. (
ZKCM
)
.
ROMANIA
:
Dobrogea, Mangalia, 15.–18.
vii.1969,
1
♂
1 ♀
,
Král
leg. (
NMPC
)
;
Banat
,
1 ♂
,
Reitter
leg. (
NMPC
)
.
BULGARIA
:
Sozopol
, 26.vi.–3.
vii.1976,
1
♂ (
NMPC
)
;
Varna
,
vi.1934,
2
♂♂,
Purkyně
leg. (
NMPC
)
.
SERBIA
:
Mladenovac
, 3.
vi.1947,
1
♂, exp.
Nat.
Mus
.
leg. (
NMPC
)
.
MONTENEGRO
:
Žabljak
,
Riblje lake
, 1.
vii.1958,
1
♂
1 ♀
,
Mařan
&
Hoberlandt
leg. (
NMPC
)
;
Radostak Mt.
,
1 ♂
1 ♀
,
J. Obenberger
leg. (
NMPC
)
.
SLOVENIA
:
Kranjska Gora
,
1 ♂
1 ♀
,
Štěrba
leg. (
NMPC
)
.
BOSNIA
AND HERCEGOVINA:
Cvrsnica
,
1 ♂
,
Štepánek
leg. (
NMPC
)
.
TURKEY
:
Izmir
vil.:
Zeitindag
,
vii.1973,
1
♂,
M. & G. Osella
leg. (
MSNV
)
;
Bolu
vil.:
Abant Gölü
,
1400–1600 m
, 3.
vii.1972,
3
♂♂
2 ♀♀
,
M. & G. Osella
leg. (
MSNV
)
;
Abant Gölü
,
vii.1973,
1
♂
1 ♀
,
M. & G. Osella
leg. (
MSNV
)
;
Abant
,
1000 m
, 21.
vi.1975,
3
♂♂,
Osella
leg. (
MSNV
)
.
Additions to description.
Body length:
♂♂
4.3–7.5 mm
;
♀♀
4.0–7.0 mm.
Colouration. Labrum dark. Elytra with small blurred dark spot on humerus, spot can be indistinct or, rarely, missing.
FIGURES 11–15.
Spermatheca. 11—
Labidostomis balcanica
; 12—
L. longimana
; 13—
L. tymphristica
; 14—
L. daccordii
sp. nov.
; 15—
L. leonardii
sp. nov.
Scale bar: 0.25 mm.
Mandibles (
Fig. 24
). Mandibles small, distinctly constricted preapically, with sharp dorsal keel. Inner slopes slightly concave, the angle between lateral and apical parts of inner margins is relatively sharp, about 90° thus apical part of inner margin is nearly transverse.
Antennae (
Fig. 30
). Antennomere IV subparallel, ca. 1.47 times as long as wide.
Aedeagus (
Fig. 7
). Apical quarter convergent with slightly concave margins, apex triangular with narrowly rounded tip. Dorsal median impression semi-elliptical, distinct, concave, with or without not well developed median keel. Apex of aedeagus without inward triangular crooked folds. Operculum trapezoidal with anterior margin incised in middle. Visible part of non-everted anterior sclerite transverse, thin, with small short triangular process in the median part. In lateral view, ventral side of aedeagus moderately convex.
Everted aedeagus (
Fig. 18
). Ejaculatory guide with large lateral arms with anterior apices directed inwards, base in middle with two distinct triangular processes, in lateral view with two arms coiled backwards. Lateral sclerites large, transversely subtriangular with apices slightly hooked. Anterior sclerite transverse with distinct Ushaped incision in middle of anterior margin.
Spermatheca (
Fig. 12
). Vasculum C-shaped with base moderately widened. Bulbus transverse, very short, with two convexities, first for glandular insertion, second for insertion of ductus spermathecae. Ductus spermathecae ca 2.5 times longer than vasculum, without coils, but with two or three simple loops.
Bursa
copulatrix with small sclerotized plate near entrance of ductus spermathecae.
Distribution.
Europe, Caucasus,
Turkey
, Middle Asia, Siberia (
Regalin & Medvedev 2010
).
Differential diagnosis.
The males of
L. longimana
have mandibles constricted preapically with inner margin forming sharp angles. Apex of aedeagus is without inward triangular crooked folds what separates
L. longimana
from the similar species
L. balcanica
,
L. graeca
and
L. daccordii
sp. nov.
(
Figs 5–7
,
9
).
Comments.
Labidostomis longimana
is a widely distributed species with several synonyms which were time to time treated as varieties or even subspecies what concerns mainly
L. longimana
ssp.
caucasica
Medvedev, 1962
and
L. longimana
var.
dalmatina
(
Lacordaire, 1848
)
.
Labidostomis longimana
ssp.
caucasica
is geographically outside the extent of the present study. The identity of
L. longimana
var.
dalmatina
, described from Dejean´s collection, is unknown to date as the deposition the
types
is unknown to us. We cannot exclude that this variety can refer to
L. balcanica
as both were described from former Dalmatia. The description of
var.
dalmatina
is very short, uninformative and refers to very variable characters, like frons less impressed, vertex less sculptured and pronotum covered with larger and more impressed punctures (all in comparison with typical
L. longimana
). We avoid designation of a
neotype
because there is still some chance to trace it at other institutions, therefore, provisionally we leave
L. balcanica
as a valid species and
var.
dalmatina
in synonymy with
L. longimana
in agreement with Palaearctic catalogue (
Regalin & Medvedev 2010
).