Generic revision of the Microhoriini with new species and synonymies from the Palaearctic Region (Coleoptera: Anthicidae)
Author
Kejval, Zbyněk
Author
Chandler, Donald S.
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2020
2020-03-10
60
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journal article
10.37520/aemnp.2020.007
1804-6487
3880221
7990B912-A3D4-40F7-B143-772FFDB5A119
Microhoria pinicola
(
Reitter, 1889
)
Anthicus pinicola
Reitter, 1889: 258
.
Microhoria pinicola
:
TELNOV (1998)
: 170
(record
Greece
);
CHANDLER et al. (2008)
: 442
(catalogue, distribution).
Microhoria feroni
Bonadona, 1960: 51
,
Figs 1, 3, 5
,
syn. nov.
Type
locality.
Anthicus pinicola
–
Greece
,
Attica
;
Microhoria feroni
–
Greece
, Euboea Island, Rovies.
Type material.
Anthicus pinicola
–
LECTOTYPE
(herewith designated):, ‘
Attica
Reitter
[p] //
Graecia
[h] //
Paratypus
1889.
Anthicus pinicola Reitter
[p+h; red frame] // Coll. Reitter [p]’ (
HNHM
).
PARALECTOTYPE
:
1 ♀
, same data, except ‘Holotypus’ in the 3rd label (
HNHM
).
Microhoria feroni
–
PARATYPE
:, ‘Ile d’Eubée a Roviès (Sporades)
10.VII.1956
. [h] II
Paratype
[h; red label] //
Microhoria (Platyhoria) feroni
n sp.
P. BONADONA det. [p+h]’ (coll. Bonadona,
MNHN
).
Additional material.
GREECE
:
CENTRAL
GREECE:
3, Euboea, Pili,
105 m
,
16.vi.–25.ix.2014
, A. Sette lgt. (
ADBC
); 4, Euboea, Pili,
100 m
,
20.vi.2016
, A. Sette lgt. (
ADBC
).
CENTRAL MACEDONIA
:
1 ♀
, Mount Menikio,
12.viii.2010
, J. Halada lgt. (
ADBC
).
EPIRUS
:
1, Parga,
13.vi.2008
, K. Orszulik lgt. (
ZKDC
).
IONIAN ISLANDS
:
20, Corfu, Pelekito,
21.vi.2010
, M. Pavesi lgt. (
ADBC
).
PELOPONNESE
:
4,Arcadia, Tyros, Paralia,
15.vii.1987
, R. Schuh lgt. (
ZKDC
); 4
1 ♀
, Corinthia, Gerania Region, NW of Perachora,
38°03′N
22°55′E
,
200 m
,
16.vii.1990
, M. & R. Rausch lgt. (
ZKDC
); 3, Laconia,
1.4 km
NW of Grammousa,
10.vi.2016
, B. Zbuzek lgt. (
ZKDC
).
THESSALY
:
1, Trikala, Pili,
20.vi.2008
, A. Fancello lgt. (
ADBC
).
WEST GREECE
:
2, Etolia-Akarnania, Astakos,
22.vi.–6.vii.2001
, A. Sette lgt. (
ADBC
).
Distribution.
Greece
.
Remarks.
REITTER
(1889)
described
Anthicus pinicola
from an unstated number of specimens collected by H. von Oertzen in
Greece
at three localities: Aegina,
Attica
, and
Morea
. The
lectotype
is designated herein for a male
syntype
from
Attica
(its
paratype
label is surely not original but added by curators).
BONADONA
(1960)
described
Microhoria feroni
from two specimens originating from Euboea Island in
Greece
. Both species are conspicuous in having a unicolorous reddish body, and the male type specimens have identical aedeagi, including the rather characteristic small lobule on the outer side of the narrowed, straightly projecting apical portion of the tegmen, and the endophallus with an apical tuft of simple, delicate spinules. Consequently,
Microhoria feroni
is proposed as a junior synonym of
Anthicus pinicola
.
Figs 119–122. Aedeagus: 119 –
Microhoria persica
sp. nov.
, lateral view; 120 –
M. sawda
sp. nov.
, ventral (left) and lateral (right view); 121 –
M. strejceki
sp. nov.
, lateral view, and apex of tegmen in dorsal view; 122 –
M. truncatipennis
(Pic, 1897)
comb. nov.
, lateral view. Scale bars: 0.2 mm – A (Figs 120, 121), B (Figs 119, 122).
The specimens collected by M. Pavesi at the locality Pelekito were captured by using traps with paper towels soaked with alcohol containing the exudates from freshly caught specimens of
Meloe
Linnaeus, 1759
(Degiovanni, pers. comm.); the specimens collected by A. Sette in Central and Western
Greece
Regions were trapped in cups holding wine vinegar (Degiovanni, pers. comm.).