The Pygopleurus Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea: Glaphyridae) of mainland Greece: taxonomy, faunistics and ecological notes
Author
Bollino, Maurizio
Author
Uliana, Marco
Author
Sabatinelli, Guido
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-09-24
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journal article
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Pygopleurus anemoninus
species-group
This group is defined by the peculiar shape of everted endophallus and paramera strongly narrowing in the distal half (
Figs. 22
,
29
), very distinct from other
Pygopleurus
and suggestive of the monophyly of the group, and by the clypeus lacking a medial carina in both sexes, a condition exclusive to this group within the Greek fauna. Other non-exclusive characters are: elytra unicolored, long, raised setation of elytra with black setae commonly present at least in the basal area, rarely all setae light-colored (observed in females only); setation evidently denser in the inner two-thirds of elytra, scarce or absent in the external third; elytral apex rounded.
The group includes two species from
Greece
(
P. anemoninus
and
P. pseudopsilotrichius
) and one from
Anatolia
(
P. kareli
(
Petrovitz, 1962
))
, whose everted endophallus is pictured in
Bollino & Ruzzante (2015)
.