Endophallus structure: a promising tool for cryptic species identification in Timarcha Samouelle, 1819 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Chrysomelinae) Author Petitpierre, Eduard Author Anichtchenko, Alexander text Zootaxa 2018 2018-07-18 4446 3 361 383 journal article 29340 10.11646/zootaxa.4446.3.4 8bd15d85-4cb6-4032-9c82-7bbb95d2f104 1175-5326 1444255 227C1101-B5EC-48C7-8780-BEEBA6D5AE06 T. ( T. ) tenebricosa (Fabricius, 1775) Material : 1 ♂ : Spain , Cerler ( Pyrenees of Huesca ), 0 7. 1970, leg. X. Palaus (EPC); 1 ♂ : — Spain , Port de la Bonaigua , 2000m alt., ( Pyrenees of Lleida ), 25.06.1970 , leg. E. Petitpierre (EPC); 2 ♂ : Caucasus Mts. , Russia , Karachaevo—Cherkessia , Skalisty Mt. Range , Banditskoe urochische, 2–3.05.2009, leg. D. Fominhy (AAC); 1 ♂ : RUSSIA , KARACHAY—CHERKESSIA , VALLEY Of DAUT RIVER , 43o51’N 42o04’E , 20.05.2009 LEG. A. ANICHTCHENKO ( ACC ); 1 ♂ , 1 f ♂ : UKRAINE , KRIMEA , BAHCHISARAI dISTR., 5 KM ESE SOKOLINOE VILLAGE, SOTIRA MT., 1100M, 44o32’46’’N 34o01’13’’E , 3.05.2015, LEG. K. MAKAROV (AAC). Description: ENdOpHALLUS GLOBULAR IN SHApE, WITH VBL ANd VBR pRESENT; VA CONICAL WITH ApEX SLIGHTLY TURNEd dORSALLY; MANUBRIUM WIdELY dIVIdEd SHOWING TWO LATERAL pARTS CONNECTEd BY A MEMBRANE, fLAGELLUM LONG ANd WELL SCLEROTIZEd. SHApE Of ENdOpHALLUS ALMOST IdENTICAL IN THE WHOLE RANGE Of THE SpECIES dISTRIBUTION fROM THE CAUCASUS TO NORTHERN SpAIN , ANd SIMILAR, BUT NOT IdENTICAL TO THAT pUBLISHEd BY STOCKMANN (1967) fROM FRENCH MATERIAL. MINOR dIffERENCES ARE dUE TO THE fACT THAT SAC fROM THE PYRENEES SpECIMENS ARE LESS INfLATEd ( fIGS 3A, B, C, d ).