Taxonomic studies of the Balkan Reicheina (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Clivinini), with a review of the Albanian species
Author
Bulirsch, Petr
Author
Guéorguiev, Borislav V.
text
Zootaxa
2008
1679
39
53
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.180383
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180383
Reicheadella corcyrea
(
Reitter, 1884
)
(
Figs 6
,
11
,
14
)
Material studied
. 1 ɗ labelled “Gasturi, Korfu
2.IV.
(19)29. Beier”; “collectio Paganetti” (
NMW
);
5 specimens
labelled: “
Greece
, Kerkyra (Corfu), Vouniatades, under
Laurus
+
Quercus ilex
leaf litter,
31.3.1998
, M. Pavesi lgt.” (cPB).
Taxonomic remarks
. In order to define the systematic position of the separate phyletic lineages of the Balkan Reicheina more correctly, we represent here drawings and descriptions of the urite and the ventral view of the median lobe. Both have never been illustrated, in contrast to the several depictions of the lateral view of the aedeagus (
Jeannel 1957
: 176, Fig. 80;
Casale
et al.
1998
: 95,
Fig. 7
;
Giachino & Vailati 2004
: 28,
Fig. 5
). A detailed ventral scheme of the parameres is represented too.
Male genital armature. Urite as in
Fig. 6
; regularly rounded in basal and apical part alike, with prominent apical process, small subapical vertical lamella and subbasal swelling. Median lobe in ventral view as in
Fig. 11
; wide, straight, apically with bent to left side tip; internal sac situated in its medial and subapical part; copulatory piece with vague inner structures. Parameres more or less similar in size, somewhat different in shape as in
Fig. 14
; left one smaller, slightly bent before middle, its apical part widely rounded with one short and two long setae situated on equal distances from one another; right paramere larger, apically with one highly reduced (hardly visible) and two long setae situated on equal distances from one another.