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(
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<emphasis id="43DCEAC5633DE4266CD3FECFFEEFFEBD" bold="true" box="[151,321,290,310]" pageId="2" pageNumber="159">Published records.</emphasis>
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): Arabie, Djeddah, TYPE.
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: S. Arabia, Jidda,
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<emphasis id="43DCEAC5633DE4266CD3FEB4FED3FEE7" bold="true" box="[151,381,344,364]" pageId="2" pageNumber="159">New records. ARABIA:</emphasis>
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/ 81 19 [p, form A, det.
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:
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1 J
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(
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), Arabia: / Hejaz, / Jidda. [p] / 4.xii. [hw] 1926. /
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[p] // Brit. Mus. / 1927 30. [p, form B + C, det.
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:
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(
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), 4049 //
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/ gen //
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/
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[hw] //
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/ 1905. 100 [p] //
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[hw] / det.
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[p, form A, det.
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]
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;
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(
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), 4048 //
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/ gen //
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/
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[hw] //
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/ 1905. 100 [p] // form / B [hw, det.
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.
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<emphasis id="43DCEAC5633DE4266CD3FE03FEB8FD8D" bold="true" box="[151,278,494,518]" pageId="2" pageNumber="159">Variability.</emphasis>
Two female forms could be distinguished in the available specimens. Form A (
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) sensu K. G. Blair (see New records) is represented by typically coloured females with a completely orange body except of the black metepimeron and two black spots on each elytron, one isolated in the middle and one small at the apex. Female form B (
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) is light red with black middle and hind legs and a black mesepisternum, metepimeron, mesepimeron, metepisternum and metaventrite. The elytra are orange with a black basal band, isolated central spot and black apical spot. The length of metatarsomeres is also different: form A has the 2
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metatarsomere short and robust (but not flattened from above as in
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) and shorter than the 3
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(
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). Form B has the 2
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). Moreover, the species is quite variable in the shape of the elevated process at the apex of pronotum: in form A it is quite distinct and long (
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), while in form B it is reduced with a small cavity (
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). Both forms are
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long and overlap in their range of distribution. I assume that the morphological and colour differences between both forms are related to their development (possibly different hosts?) and have no taxonomic value. Form C (
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) is a
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long male, which is completely black with light yellow, basally and apically black elytra (sexual dichroism) and fuscous antennae and tarsal segments; the elevated process at the apex of pronotum is reduced with a small cavity.
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<emphasis id="43DCEAC5633DE4266CD3FBE3FE95FBAD" bold="true" box="[151,315,1038,1062]" pageId="2" pageNumber="159">Biogeography.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="43DCEAC5633DE4266D06FBFDFD86FBAC" box="[322,552,1040,1063]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="159">Macrosiagon elegans</emphasis>
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belongs to the rather speciose
<emphasis id="43DCEAC5633DE4266F31FBFDFC25FBAC" box="[885,907,1040,1063]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="159">M</emphasis>
.
<taxonomicName id="B6A84D54633DE4266FE6FBFDFBA5FBAC" box="[930,1035,1040,1063]" class="Insecta" family="Ripiphoridae" genus="Macrosiagon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="159" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bifasciata">
<emphasis id="43DCEAC5633DE4266FE6FBFDFBA5FBAC" box="[930,1035,1040,1063]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="159">bifasciata</emphasis>
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species group (
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), to which also belongs
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<emphasis id="43DCEAC5633DE4266ED1FBDDFD05FBCC" box="[661,683,1072,1095]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="159">M</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="43DCEAC5633DE4266EFEFBDDFCA8FBCC" box="[698,774,1072,1095]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="159">fortieri</emphasis>
(Chobaut, 1893)
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described from
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.
<taxonomicName id="B6A84D54633DE4266CA1FBBDFE65FBEC" baseAuthorityName="Marseul" baseAuthorityYear="1876" box="[229,459,1104,1127]" class="Insecta" family="Ripiphoridae" genus="Macrosiagon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="159" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="elegans">
<emphasis id="43DCEAC5633DE4266CA1FBBDFE65FBEC" box="[229,459,1104,1127]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="159">Macrosiagon elegans</emphasis>
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seems to be more closely related to
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<emphasis id="43DCEAC5633DE4266F13FBBDFC4BFBEC" box="[855,997,1104,1127]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="159">M. bifasciata</emphasis>
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(an Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental species) or to
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<emphasis id="43DCEAC5633DE4266E77FB9DFD70FB0C" box="[563,734,1136,1159]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="159">M. meridionalis</emphasis>
(Costa, 1859)
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(a Mediterranean species) than to
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<emphasis id="43DCEAC5633DE4266D66FB7DFE16FB2C" box="[290,440,1168,1191]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="159">M. bipunctata</emphasis>
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(with which it occurs sympatrically in
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) or to
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<emphasis id="43DCEAC5633DE4266FB4FB7DFBCEFB2C" box="[1008,1120,1168,1191]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="159">M. fortieri</emphasis>
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. However, these affinities cannot be proved without a comparison of molecular data of all related species.
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<emphasis id="43DCEAC5633DE4266CD3FB03FE84FA8D" bold="true" box="[151,298,1262,1286]" pageId="2" pageNumber="159">Distribution.</emphasis>
Eritrea,
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<collectingCountry id="09BF7647633DE4266DC2FB03FDB0FA8D" box="[390,542,1262,1286]" name="Saudi Arabia" pageId="2" pageNumber="159">Saudi Arabia</collectingCountry>
</emphasis>
,
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<collectingCountry id="09BF7647633DE4266E6FFB02FDD6FA8C" box="[555,632,1263,1287]" name="Yemen" pageId="2" pageNumber="159">Yemen</collectingCountry>
</emphasis>
(new country record).
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