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. balearica
”
—group
Description:
GROUp CONSISTING Of ONLY ONE SpECIES,
T. balearica
, ROUGHLY SIMILAR IN SIZE ANd SHApE TO
T. intermedia
BUT A BIT LESS STOUT, LONGER LEGS, ANd dIffERING ALSO IN THE COMpLETE ABSENCE Of pUNCTATION ON THE UppER SIdE. IT dISpLAYS CHROMATIC pOLYMORpHISM, ALTHOUGH MOST SpECIMENS ARE dULL dARK GREEN, SOMETIMES EVEN A SLIGHTLY BRIGHT BLACK COLOUR CONTRARY TO THE LATTER SpECIES. IT IS ENdEMIC Of THE TWO LARGER
BALEARIC ISLANdS
, MALLORCA ANd
MENORCA
.