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
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1175-5326
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T.
(
T.
)
balearica
Gory, 1833
T. martini
Pic, 1919a: 20
T. violacea
Pic, 2019a: 20
Material:
3 ♂
: FORNELLS,
MENORCA
,
BALEARIC ISLANdS
, 0
9.10.1973
, LEG. E. PETITpIERRE (EPC).
Description:
ENdOpHALLUS (
fIGS 11A, B
) COMpLEX WITH SOfT pARTS WITH A ROUNd ApICAL HORN, TWO pROMINENT DA pROTUBERANCES, ANd A dIVIdEd ANd WEAKLY SCLEROTIZEd SMALL MANUBRIUM, jOINEd TO A TIp COILEd fLAGELLUM (PETITpIERRE 1970A). IN AddITION, THE ApEX Of pENIS IS TRUNCATEd INSTEAd Of pOINTEd,
AS
IT IS COMMON fOR MOST SpECIES (PETITpIERRE 1970A).