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leg.,
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/ 05´´
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(GPS) / leg.
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[w, p] // YEMEN SOQOTRA / 2003 / Expedition; Jan Farkač, / Petr Kabátek &amp; David Král [w, p] (
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/ det. J.
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Body length: ♂♂
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<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBAFFCDFF499A92FF16FAC3" bold="true" box="[144,200,1272,1297]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="396">Male</emphasis>
(
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). Body subcylindrical, parallel, glabrous, lustrous. Head including mouthparts orange, tips of mandibles darkened. Antennomeres IIV orange, antennomeres VXI black with pale bases. Pronotum orange with infuscate middle part of posterior margin. Scutellum black. Elytra orange, behind middle with black transverse fascia with irregular margins, near suture slightly widened and bent posteriorly. Legs orange, claws black with pale bases. Prosternum orange, mesosternum orange in the middle, laterally black, metasternum and abdomen including pygidium black.
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<paragraph id="6C2436D0FFBAFFCEFF499BB3FCB5FD5D" blockId="1.[113,1089,1030,1586]" lastBlockId="2.[649,1127,216,976]" lastPageId="2" lastPageNumber="397" pageId="1" pageNumber="396">Head. Labrum short, transverse, almost impunctate, with several long pale setae along anterior margin, anterior angles widely rounded, anterior margin shallowly incised. Head distinctly constricted behind eyes. Anterior part of head lustrous, almost impunctate and glabrous, aside from antennal insertions with small shallow impressions; clypeus widely shallowly triangularly incised, with short fine pale setae along anterior margin. Frons wide, 2.5 times as wide as diameter of eye, with transverse shallow impression in midpart, densely and coarsely punctured, covered with dense short setae (slightly longer near eyes). Vertex lustrous, densely covered with fine small punctures and short pale setae. Antennomere I club-shaped; antennomeres II and III very small, cylindrical; antennomere IV small, triangular; antennae distinctly serrated from antennomere V.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="6C2436D0FFB9FFCEFD719CF2FD32FB42" blockId="2.[649,1127,216,976]" lastBlockId="2.[151,1127,1080,1584]" pageId="2" pageNumber="397">Pronotum transverse, 1.71 times as wide as long, widest at two thirds, moderately convex, covered with extremely fine, almost invisible punctures, lustrous. Anterior half of lateral margins convergent, straight, posterior half widely rounded, anterior margin slightly concave, posterior margin nearly straight, distinctly thickened in scutellar area.Anterior angles rectangular with rounded tip, posterior ones almost imperceptible, widely rounded. All angles bearing setigerous pore with long pale seta. Lateral margins narrowly bordered, anterior margin bordered only laterally, border of posterior margin narrow laterally, broader at scutellar thickening. Scutellum triangular with sharply rounded apex, base covered with fine punctures and pale setae, apex lustrous, impunctate, scutellar apex elevated upon level of elytra.</paragraph>
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Fig. 1. Habitus of
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).
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<paragraph id="6C2436D0FFB9FFCEFF6C9AF2FC05FAFD" blockId="2.[151,1127,1080,1584]" pageId="2" pageNumber="397">Elytra subcylindrical, 1.56 times as long as wide at humeral part, glabrous, lustrous, densely covered with small fine confused punctures. Basal margin narrowly bordered, lateral margin thinly bordered in anterior third, widely bordered in middle third and disappearing in posterior third. Epipleura glabrous, basally wide, gradually thinner posteriorly, disappearing in midlenght of elytra. In lateral view, lateral margin of elytra widely concave.</paragraph>
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Tarsi short and relatively slender. Protarsomere I short, subtriangular, 1.33 times as long as broad, 0.58 times as long as two following tarsomeres combined, protarsomere II subtriangular, almost as wide as long, protarsomere III very deeply incised (
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).
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<paragraph id="6C2436D0FFB9FFCEFF6C9BF2FD75FA02" blockId="2.[151,1127,1080,1584]" pageId="2" pageNumber="397">Ventral part. Propleurae glabrous. Prosternal projection not visible between procoxae. Abdomen flattened, last ventrite bent downwards.</paragraph>
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Male genitalia. Aedeagus (
<figureCitation id="F4A02A55FFB9FFCEFE0B9BB2FDCCFA22" box="[466,530,1496,1520]" captionStart="Figs" captionStartId="3.[113,152,1537,1556]" captionTargetBox="[162,1042,228,1495]" captionTargetId="figure-14@3.[135,1067,219,1527]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="Figs. 25. Aedeagus (a dorsal view; b lateral view). 2 Tituboea purchati sp. nov.; 3 T. arabica; 4 Tituboea capensis (orig. MEDVEDEV 1987); 5 T. obliquata (specimen from Yemen). Scale bar = 1 mm for Figs. 2, 3 and 5." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5339682" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5339682/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="397">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
) slender, flat, with distinctly prolonged apex.
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<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFB9FFCEFF6C9B9DFED1F9C2" bold="true" box="[181,271,1527,1552]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="397">Female.</emphasis>
Frons broader, pronotum slightly broader and elytra slightly longer than in males (see Variability). Tarsi slightly narrower than in males.Abdomen robust, convex, last ventrite with small round impression in middle. Spermatheca C-shaped with relatively sharp inner angle, spermathecal duct very long with numerous coils (
<figureCitation id="F4A02A55FFBFFFC8FD339D93FCF7FBC0" box="[746,809,1017,1042]" captionStart="Figs" captionStartId="4.[152,191,811,830]" captionTargetBox="[203,1082,232,773]" captionTargetId="figure-291@4.[173,1104,220,796]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="Figs. 610. 67 Male protarsus. 6 T. purchati sp. nov.; 7 T. arabica. 8 Spermatheca of T. purchati sp. nov. 910 Rectal sclerites of T. purchati sp. nov. 9 ventral sclerites; 10 dorsal sclerites. Scale bar = 2 mm for Figs. 67, 0.5 mm for Fig. 8 and 1 mm for Figs. 910." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5339684" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5339684/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="399">Fig. 8</figureCitation>
). Rectal sclerites (
<figureCitation id="F4A02A55FFBFFFC8FC319D93FB84FBC0" box="[1000,1114,1017,1042]" captionStart="Figs" captionStartId="4.[152,191,811,830]" captionTargetBox="[203,1082,232,773]" captionTargetId="figure-291@4.[173,1104,220,796]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="Figs. 610. 67 Male protarsus. 6 T. purchati sp. nov.; 7 T. arabica. 8 Spermatheca of T. purchati sp. nov. 910 Rectal sclerites of T. purchati sp. nov. 9 ventral sclerites; 10 dorsal sclerites. Scale bar = 2 mm for Figs. 67, 0.5 mm for Fig. 8 and 1 mm for Figs. 910." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5339684" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5339684/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="399">Figs. 9, 10</figureCitation>
): dorsally 3 sclerites (two lateral, 1 central), ventrally 2 wing-shaped sclerites.
</paragraph>
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Figs. 25. Aedeagus (a dorsal view; b lateral view). 2
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; 3
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; 4
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<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFB8FFCFFC2C9868FF64F9FD" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="398">Tituboea capensis</emphasis>
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(orig.
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); 5
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<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFB8FFCFFE699877FDC8F9FD" box="[432,534,1565,1583]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="398">T. obliquata</emphasis>
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(specimen from Yemen). Scale bar = 1 mm for Figs. 2, 3 and 5.
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Figs. 610. 67 Male protarsus. 6
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; 7
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. 8 Spermatheca of
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910 Rectal sclerites of
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<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBFFFC8FEAC9D2DFE0FFC8B" box="[373,465,839,857]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="399">T. purchati</emphasis>
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9 ventral sclerites; 10 dorsal sclerites. Scale bar = 2 mm for Figs. 67, 0.5 mm for Fig. 8 and 1 mm for Figs. 910.
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<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBFFFC8FF4E9A53FEC8FB83" bold="true" box="[151,278,1081,1105]" pageId="4" pageNumber="399">Variability.</emphasis>
The width of frons
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBFFFC8FE3D9A53FE35FB83" bold="true" box="[484,491,1081,1105]" pageId="4" pageNumber="399">/</emphasis>
diameter of the eye ratio varies between
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males and
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females. The width/length ratio of pronotum varies between
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males and
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females. The length/width ratio of elytra varies between
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females. The black fascia on elytra is somewhat variable in breadth, usually touching the lateral sides and suture, only in
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the lateral sides and suture are orange. One female has a small black spot surrounding inner margin of eyes posteriorly of canthus and three very small black spots on pronotum (two lateraly near hind angles, one in the middle nearly touching basal margin).
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<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBFFFC8FF4E9B53FE4AFA83" bold="true" box="[151,404,1337,1361]" pageId="4" pageNumber="399">Differential diagnosis.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBFFFC8FE479B51FD83FA80" box="[414,605,1339,1362]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="399">Tituboea purchati</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="45DC57B9FFBFFFC8FDBE9B50FD63FA83" box="[615,701,1338,1361]" pageId="4" pageNumber="399" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
belongs to the group of larger species (above 7. mm) with not prolonged protarsi, glabrous elytra and not elevated hind pronotal angles, and is similar to
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBFFFC8FE409B11FD70FA40" authority="(Olivier, 1808)" baseAuthorityName="Olivier" baseAuthorityYear="1808" box="[409,686,1401,1426]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="399" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="arabica">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBFFFC8FE409B11FDD8FA40" box="[409,518,1403,1426]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="399">T. arabica</emphasis>
(Olivier, 1808)
</taxonomicName>
. Both species can be distinguished by the structure of aedeagus which is slender, flat and with distinctly prolonged apex in
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBFFFC8FC339BF1FBB9FA60" authority="Bezděk, 2012" authorityName="Bezděk" authorityYear="2012" box="[1002,1127,1435,1458]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="399" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="purcharti" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBFFFC8FC339BF1FBB9FA60" box="[1002,1127,1435,1458]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="399">T. purcharti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="45DC57B9FFBFFFC8FF4E9BD0FF32FA03" box="[151,236,1466,1489]" pageId="4" pageNumber="399" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
, while robust and with shortly triangular apex in
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBFFFC8FD2B9BD1FC81FA00" baseAuthorityName="Olivier" baseAuthorityYear="1808" box="[754,863,1467,1490]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="399" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="arabica">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBFFFC8FD2B9BD1FC81FA00" box="[754,863,1467,1490]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="399">T. arabica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation id="F4A02A55FFBFFFC8FCB49BD3FC0FFA00" box="[877,977,1465,1490]" captionStart="Figs" captionStartId="3.[113,152,1537,1556]" captionTargetBox="[162,1042,228,1495]" captionTargetId="figure-14@3.[135,1067,219,1527]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="Figs. 25. Aedeagus (a dorsal view; b lateral view). 2 Tituboea purchati sp. nov.; 3 T. arabica; 4 Tituboea capensis (orig. MEDVEDEV 1987); 5 T. obliquata (specimen from Yemen). Scale bar = 1 mm for Figs. 2, 3 and 5." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5339682" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5339682/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="399">Figs. 2, 3</figureCitation>
). In the males of
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBFFFC8FF6F9BB1FEFAFA20" baseAuthorityName="Olivier" baseAuthorityYear="1808" box="[182,292,1499,1522]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="399" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="arabica">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBFFFC8FF6F9BB1FEFAFA20" box="[182,292,1499,1522]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="399">T. arabica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the protarsomeres are shortly elongated, not subtriangular as in
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBFFFC8FC3E9BB1FBB9FA20" authority="Bezděk, 2012" authorityName="Bezděk" authorityYear="2012" box="[999,1127,1499,1522]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="399" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="purcharti" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBFFFC8FC3E9BB1FBB9FA20" box="[999,1127,1499,1522]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="399">T. purcharti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="45DC57B9FFBFFFC8FF4E9B90FF37F9C3" box="[151,233,1530,1553]" pageId="4" pageNumber="399" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
Protarsomere III in
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBFFFC8FE649B91FDF7F9C0" baseAuthorityName="Olivier" baseAuthorityYear="1808" box="[445,553,1531,1554]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="399" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="arabica">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBFFFC8FE649B91FDF7F9C0" box="[445,553,1531,1554]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="399">T. arabica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is incised ca. to its midlenght, while it is incised to the basal quarter in
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBFFFC8FE9D9871FE1DF9E0" authority="Bezděk, 2012" authorityName="Bezděk" authorityYear="2012" box="[324,451,1563,1586]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="399" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="purcharti" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBFFFC8FE9D9871FE1DF9E0" box="[324,451,1563,1586]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="399">T. purcharti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="45DC57B9FFBFFFC8FE139870FDC0F9E3" box="[458,542,1562,1585]" pageId="4" pageNumber="399" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
(
<figureCitation id="F4A02A55FFBFFFC8FDF59873FD4AF9E0" box="[556,660,1561,1586]" captionStart="Figs" captionStartId="4.[152,191,811,830]" captionTargetBox="[203,1082,232,773]" captionTargetId="figure-291@4.[173,1104,220,796]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="Figs. 610. 67 Male protarsus. 6 T. purchati sp. nov.; 7 T. arabica. 8 Spermatheca of T. purchati sp. nov. 910 Rectal sclerites of T. purchati sp. nov. 9 ventral sclerites; 10 dorsal sclerites. Scale bar = 2 mm for Figs. 67, 0.5 mm for Fig. 8 and 1 mm for Figs. 910." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5339684" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5339684/files/figure.png" pageId="4" pageNumber="399">Figs. 6, 7</figureCitation>
). All the specimens of
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBFFFC8FC549871FC24F9E0" baseAuthorityName="Olivier" baseAuthorityYear="1808" box="[909,1018,1563,1586]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="399" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="arabica">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBFFFC8FC549871FC24F9E0" box="[909,1018,1563,1586]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="399">T. arabica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
known to me also have a different coloration they always have humeral and subscutellar black spots which are always missing in
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FE7F9E97FDFAFEC6" authority="Bezděk, 2012" authorityName="Bezděk" authorityYear="2012" box="[422,548,253,276]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="purcharti" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FE7F9E97FDFAFEC6" box="[422,548,253,276]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">T. purcharti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="45DC57B9FFBEFFC9FDF29E96FDA0FEC1" box="[555,638,252,275]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="6C2436D0FFBEFFC9FF499F76FED6FDE1" blockId="5.[113,1091,219,1044]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">
Two Afrotropical
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FE8B9F77FDDBFEE1" box="[338,517,283,308]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FE8B9F77FE71FEE6" box="[338,431,285,308]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">Tituboea</emphasis>
species
</taxonomicName>
with not prolonged protarsi, glabrous elytra and not elevated hind pronotal angles,
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FE609F57FD36FE86" authority="Medvedev, 1993" authorityName="Medvedev" authorityYear="1993" box="[441,744,315,340]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="capensis">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FE609F57FDEEFE86" box="[441,560,317,340]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">T. capensis</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="080A4B21FFBEFFC9FDEE9F51FD36FE86" author="MEDVEDEV L. N." box="[567,744,315,340]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" pagination="130 - 136" refId="ref2998" refString="MEDVEDEV L. N. 1993: Further records of Clytrinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 13: 130 - 136." type="journal article" year="1993">Medvedev, 1993</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
(
<collectingCountry id="148C7640FFBEFFC9FD2E9F56FCF0FE86" box="[759,814,316,340]" name="South Africa" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">RSA</collectingCountry>
) and
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FCB09F57FF2DFEA6" authority="(Lacordaire, 1848)" baseAuthorityName="Lacordaire" baseAuthorityYear="1848" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obliquata">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FCB09F57FC34FE86" box="[873,1002,317,340]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">T. obliquata</emphasis>
(Lacordaire, 1848)
</taxonomicName>
(
<collectingCountry id="148C7640FFBEFFC9FEDB9F31FE84FEA1" box="[258,346,347,371]" name="Senegal" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">Senegal</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry id="148C7640FFBEFFC9FEBC9F36FE6AFEA6" box="[357,436,348,372]" name="Yemen" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">Yemen</collectingCountry>
), can be distinguished by two large black spots on pronotum and by the black spots on humeral calli (
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FDF79F17FD6EFE46" baseAuthorityName="Lacordaire" baseAuthorityYear="1848" box="[558,688,381,404]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obliquata">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FDF79F17FD6EFE46" box="[558,688,381,404]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">T. obliquata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) or on the anterior third of elytra (
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FBF49F17FF13FE66" authorityName="Medvedev" authorityYear="1993" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="capensis">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FBF49F17FF13FE66" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">T. capensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
). Pronotum of
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FEA89FF7FE31FE66" authority="Bezděk, 2012" authorityName="Bezděk" authorityYear="2012" box="[369,495,413,436]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="purcharti" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FEA89FF7FE31FE66" box="[369,495,413,436]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">T. purcharti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="45DC57B9FFBEFFC9FE2F9FF6FD97FE61" box="[502,585,412,435]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
is uniformly orange (or, very rarely, with three very small black spots), and elytra are orange with black transverse fascia behind the middle. All mentioned species differ also in the structure of aedeagus which is triangularly prolonged in
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FF549F97FEDAFDC6" authorityName="Medvedev" authorityYear="1993" box="[141,260,509,532]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="capensis">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FF549F97FEDAFDC6" box="[141,260,509,532]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">T. capensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(but less than in
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FE659F97FDE5FDC6" authority="Bezděk, 2012" authorityName="Bezděk" authorityYear="2012" box="[444,571,509,532]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="purcharti" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FE659F97FDE5FDC6" box="[444,571,509,532]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">T. purcharti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="45DC57B9FFBEFFC9FD989F96FD48FDC6" box="[577,662,508,532]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
) while simply triangular in
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FC199F97FB9EFDC6" baseAuthorityName="Lacordaire" baseAuthorityYear="1848" box="[960,1088,509,532]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="obliquata">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FC199F97FB9EFDC6" box="[960,1088,509,532]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">T. obliquata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation id="F4A02A55FFBEFFC9FFA09C71FF24FDE1" box="[121,250,539,564]" captionStart="Figs" captionStartId="3.[113,152,1537,1556]" captionTargetBox="[162,1042,228,1495]" captionTargetId="figure-14@3.[135,1067,219,1527]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="Figs. 25. Aedeagus (a dorsal view; b lateral view). 2 Tituboea purchati sp. nov.; 3 T. arabica; 4 Tituboea capensis (orig. MEDVEDEV 1987); 5 T. obliquata (specimen from Yemen). Scale bar = 1 mm for Figs. 2, 3 and 5." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5339682" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5339682/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">Figs. 2, 4, 5</figureCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="6C2436D0FFBEFFC9FF499C56FC37FD21" blockId="5.[113,1091,219,1044]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">
In habitus,
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FEDF9C57FE5AFD86" authority="Bezděk, 2012" authorityName="Bezděk" authorityYear="2012" box="[262,388,573,596]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="purcharti" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FEDF9C57FE5AFD86" box="[262,388,573,596]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">T. purcharti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="45DC57B9FFBEFFC9FE539C56FE02FD81" box="[394,476,572,595]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
resembles also some species of the genus
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FC459C57FF3FFDA6" authority="Laicharting, 1781" authorityName="Laicharting" authorityYear="1781" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Clytra" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FC459C57FC3EFD86" box="[924,992,573,596]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">Clytra</emphasis>
Laicharting, 1781
</taxonomicName>
. Procoxae are separated by a well visible prosternal projection in
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FC7B9C37FBE3FDA1" box="[930,1085,603,628]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Clytra" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FC7B9C37FC38FDA6" box="[930,998,605,628]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">Clytra</emphasis>
species
</taxonomicName>
, while it is not visible between procoxae in
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FDE19C17FD68FD46" authority="Bezděk, 2012" authorityName="Bezděk" authorityYear="2012" box="[568,694,637,660]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="purcharti" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FDE19C17FD68FD46" box="[568,694,637,660]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">T. purcharti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="45DC57B9FFBEFFC9FD659C16FCD0FD41" box="[700,782,636,659]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
Aedeagus of
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FC479C17FBC2FD46" authority="Bezděk, 2012" authorityName="Bezděk" authorityYear="2012" box="[926,1052,637,660]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="purcharti" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FC479C17FBC2FD46" box="[926,1052,637,660]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">T. purcharti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="45DC57B9FFBEFFC9FBFB9C16FF41FD61" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
with prolonged apex is also similar to that of
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FD509CF7FBD1FD61" box="[649,1039,667,692]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Barybaena" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FD509CF7FD20FD66" box="[649,766,669,692]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">Barybaena</emphasis>
Lacordaire, 1848 species
</taxonomicName>
(see
<bibRefCitation id="080A4B21FFBEFFC9FFA89CD6FE56FD06" author="ERBER D. &amp; MEDVEDEV L. N." box="[113,392,700,724]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" pagination="243 - 259" refId="ref2879" refString="ERBER D. &amp; MEDVEDEV L. N. 2003: A revision of the genus Barybaena Lacordaire, 1848 (Chrysomelidae, Clytrinae). Entomologica Basiliensia 25: 243 - 259." type="journal article" year="2003">ERBER &amp; MEDVEDEV 2003</bibRefCitation>
). However,
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FDD09CD7FD0CFD01" box="[521,722,699,724]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Barybaena" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="undetermined">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FDD09CD7FDA0FD06" box="[521,638,701,724]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">Barybaena</emphasis>
species
</taxonomicName>
differ in elytra without epipleural lobe and distinct sexual dimorphism (males with enlarged pronotum and fore legs).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="2481655BFFBEFFC9FFA89C96FC5CFCE1" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="6C2436D0FFBEFFC9FFA89C96FC5CFCE1" blockId="5.[113,1091,219,1044]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FFA89C96FF2CFCC6" bold="true" box="[113,242,764,788]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">Etymology.</emphasis>
The new species is dedicated to my friend Luboš Purchart (
<collectingCountry id="148C7640FFBEFFC9FC559C91FBE3FCC1" box="[908,1085,763,787]" name="Czech Republic" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">Czech Republic</collectingCountry>
, Brno), specialist in
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FE9B9D71FE03FCE1" authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1802" box="[322,477,795,819]" class="Insecta" family="Tenebrionidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Tenebrionidae</taxonomicName>
, who collected a part of the
<typeStatus id="B3208872FFBEFFC9FCD39D76FCE6FCE6" box="[778,824,796,820]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">type</typeStatus>
series.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="2481655BFFBEFFC9FFA89D51FE97FC21" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="6C2436D0FFBEFFC9FFA89D51FE97FC21" blockId="5.[113,1091,219,1044]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FFA89D51FDEFFC81" bold="true" box="[113,561,827,852]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">Collection circumstances and bionomy.</emphasis>
Two specimens (male and female) were seen on
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FFA89D37FE4FFCA1" authority="Balf." authorityName="Balf." box="[113,401,859,884]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Acanthaceae" genus="Trichocalyx" kingdom="Plantae" order="Lamiales" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="obovatus">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FFA89D37FE8BFCA6" box="[113,341,861,884]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">Trichocalyx obovatus</emphasis>
Balf.
</taxonomicName>
f. (
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FE759D31FDE6FCA1" box="[428,568,859,883]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Acanthaceae" kingdom="Plantae" order="Lamiales" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="family">Acanthaceae</taxonomicName>
) at 1:00 p.m. and subsequently collected, another
<specimenCount id="7A9DFD59FFBEFFC9FFA89D16FF39FC41" box="[113,231,891,915]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" type="female">one female</specimenCount>
was flying in habitat with shrubs dominated by
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FD3A9D17FC19FC46" box="[739,967,893,916]" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Acanthaceae" genus="Trichocalyx" kingdom="Plantae" order="Lamiales" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="obovatus">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FD3A9D17FC19FC46" box="[739,967,893,916]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">Trichocalyx obovatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and caught by a sweeping net at ca 11:00 a.m. (L. Purchart, pers. comm. 2010). Feeding on
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FC1A9DF7FF0FFC06" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Acanthaceae" genus="Trichocalyx" kingdom="Plantae" order="Lamiales" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="obovatus">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FC1A9DF7FF0FFC06" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">Trichocalyx obovatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
was not observed; however, there is a possibility that it is the true host plant of
<taxonomicName id="AB9B4D53FFBEFFC9FFA89DB7FF2EFC26" authority="Bezděk, 2012" authorityName="Bezděk" authorityYear="2012" box="[113,240,989,1012]" class="Insecta" family="Chrysomelidae" genus="Tituboea" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="purcharti" status="sp. nov.">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FFA89DB7FF2EFC26" box="[113,240,989,1012]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">T. purcharti</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="45DC57B9FFBEFFC9FF2F9DB6FE97FC21" box="[246,329,988,1011]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="2481655BFFBEFFC9FFA89D91FDD0FBC6" box="[113,526,1019,1044]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400" type="distribution">
<paragraph id="6C2436D0FFBEFFC9FFA89D91FDD0FBC6" blockId="5.[113,1091,219,1044]" box="[113,526,1019,1044]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">
<emphasis id="5EEFEAC2FFBEFFC9FFA89D91FEDAFBC1" bold="true" box="[113,260,1019,1043]" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">Distribution.</emphasis>
<collectingCountry id="148C7640FFBEFFC9FED39D96FE7DFBC1" box="[266,419,1019,1044]" name="Socotra Island" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">Socotra Island</collectingCountry>
(
<collectingCountry id="148C7640FFBEFFC9FE689D96FDDCFBC6" box="[433,514,1020,1044]" name="Yemen" pageId="5" pageNumber="400">Yemen</collectingCountry>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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