taxonID	type	description	language	source
03FE8799FF8F2162A1D7080E18668D66.taxon	type_taxon	Type species: Calomicrus buettikeri Medvedev, 1996, designated here.	en	Bezděk, Jan (2020): Chikatunolepta n. gen. - a new genus of Saharo-Arabian Monoleptites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (2): 11-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3945126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3945125
03FE8799FF8F2162A1D7080E18668D66.taxon	etymology	Etymology: The genus is named after Prof. Vladimir Chikatunov, a coleopterist at the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv, Israel, and Monolepta, a well known genus in Monoleptites. Feminine gender.	en	Bezděk, Jan (2020): Chikatunolepta n. gen. - a new genus of Saharo-Arabian Monoleptites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (2): 11-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3945126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3945125
03FE8799FF8F2162A1D7080E18668D66.taxon	description	Description: Small species (3.3 – 4.7 mm). Body completely yellow or pale brown, except black extreme base of basimetatarsomere, elytra sometimes with poorly defined brownish pattern (Figs 1 – 6). Very extreme lateral margin of epipleura in anterior quarter brown to black. Male. Labrum transverse with straight anterior margin and rounded anterior angles, surface with several pores bearing long seta. Anterior part of head with triangular elevation, its posterior process forming narrow nasal keel. Interantennal space as wide as antennal insertion. Eyes large. Frons narrow, 1.00 – 1.20 × as wide as diameter of eye. Antennae filiform, 0.80 – 0.90 × as long as body, antennomeres II and III subequal (III 1.00 – 1.15 × longer than II), IV – X long, 3.40 – 3.80 × as long as wide. Pronotum glabrous, lustrous, 1.25 – 1.40 × as wide as long, widest in middle, slightly convex, surface covered with very small punctures and sometimes with traces of indistinct transverse impressions. Anterior margin straight or nearly straight, lateral margins slightly rounded, posterior margin widely rounded. Anterior margin unbordered, lateral and posterior margins thinly bordered. Anterior angles swollen, posterior angles obtusangulate, all angles with setigerous pore bearing long seta. Scutellum small, subtriangular. Elytra subparallel, relatively flat, almost glabrous (with very sparse setae on lateral and apical slopes), 0.65 – 0.70 × as long as body, 1.50 – 1.75 × as long as wide at humeral part, densely covered with fine confused punctures. Humeral calli developed. Epipleura almost impunctate, glabrous, wide in anterior half, narrowed before elytral midlength, then very narrow and disappearing towards apex. Basal part of epipleura slightly impressed. Macropterous. Anterior coxal cavities semiopen posteriorly (Fig. 51). Prosternal process very thin and elevated between procoxae. Abdominal ventrite III (or ventrites II and III) with median processes covered with long setae in middle part, V with two long narrow incisions (Figs 13 – 15, 25 – 27, 37 – 39). Protarsomere I slightly enlarged. Mesofemora robust with posterior margin slightly emarginate in apical third (Fig. 49), mesotibiae bent (in Ch. buettikeri also with vertical subapical lamella), mesotarsomere I enlarged. Metatarsomeres I very long, 7.50 – 8.00 × as long as broad (Fig. 50). All tibiae with apical spur. Claws appendiculate. Male genitalia. Aedeagus long and narrow, 8.50 – 9.80 × as long as wide, ventral side with elongate apical cavity, basal two-thirds with distinct groove, narrow basally, gradually divergent anteriorly (Figs 22 – 24, 34 – 36, 46 – 48). Internal sac with sclerite complex containing larger curved basal sclerite fringed anteriorly and bare basally, and pair of very small winged-like sclerites anteriorly (Figs 7 – 12). Female. Mid legs and abdomen not modified. Pro- and mesotarsomeres I not enlarged, narrow and parallel. Last abdominal ventrite entire, without incisions. Spermatheca with elongate nodulus covered with traces of transverse wrinkles, nodulus and cornu gradually connected, cornu C-shaped, apex of cornu with long bent thin appendix, spermathecal duct S-shaped, wide basally and then gradually narrowed (Figs 17, 29, 41). Bursa sclerites star-shaped, composed of two connected plates (Figs 18, 30, 42). Sternite VIII suboval, posterior margin with short setae, tignum very long, slender (Figs 16, 28, 40). Gonocoxae with apices bearing long setae, basal part of gonocoxae forming two wing-shaped plates separated by deep incision (Figs 19, 31, 43). Comparison: The representatives of Chikatunolepta n. gen. have very long basimetatarsus with black extreme base, subequal antennomeres II and III, head with large eyes and interocular space as wide as or slightly wider than transverse diameter of eye, large pronotum, mid legs with enlarged femora, modified tibiae and enlarged mesotarsomere I, male abdomen modified, and long narrow aedeagus. Such combination of characters is unknown in any other genus of Monoleptites. The Monoleptites fauna of the Arabian Peninsula includes five species of Monolepta Chevrolat, 1836, three species of Calomicrus, one species of Galerudolphia Hincks, 1949, and one species of Afromaculepta Hasenkamp & Wagner, 2010. The Afrotropical genus Galerudolphia was revised by Bolz and Wagner (2005). One of the species, G. arabica (Medvedev, 1996), is distributed in Saudi Arabia and Yemen (Medvedev 1996; Bolz & Wagner 2005; Bezděk 2012). Galerudolphia species can be distiguished from Chikatunolepta n. gen. as follows: pronotum convergent anteriorly, trapezoidal; antennomere III always longer than II; anterior coxal cavities closed; mid legs not modified in males, abdomen not modified in males, aedeagus with incised apex, spermatheca with barrel-like nodulus and short right-angled cornu without appendix. The same characters in Chikatunolepta n. gen.: pronotum subquadrangular; antennomeres II and III subequal; anterior coxal cavities semiopen; mid legs and abdomen modified in males, aedeagus without incised apex, spermatheca with elongate nodulus gradually connected with C-shaped cornu, cornu terminated with long bent appendix. Another Afrotropical genus Afromaculepta comprises six species (Hasenkamp & Wagner 2000). One of them, a very widely distributed A. decemmaculata (Jacoby, 1886), penetrates into Yemen (Beenen 2010, 2019; Bezděk 2012). The genus Afromaculepta is characterised by a yellow body with a black vertex, antennae (except basal antennomeres) and spots on elytra, unmodified abdomen in males, and closed anterior coxal cavities (these characters also distinguish Afromaculepta from Chikatunolepta n. gen.). The structure of the spermateca is very similar to that of Chikatunolepta n. gen.	en	Bezděk, Jan (2020): Chikatunolepta n. gen. - a new genus of Saharo-Arabian Monoleptites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (2): 11-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3945126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3945125
03FE8799FF8F2162A1D7080E18668D66.taxon	description	Additional genera Nymphius Weise, 1900, Luperus Geoffroy, 1762, and Euluperus Weise, 1886 marginally penetrate into the Levant and Near East from the north. These genera have a shorter and wider metatarsomere I without a black base, and a generally black or metallic body. The differentiation characters for these genera were summarized by Bezděk (2015). The species transferred here to Chikatunolepta n. gen. were previously classified in Nymphius Weise, 1900. The latter genus with five species and two subspecies distributed in Turkey, Caucasus, Bulgaria, Iran, Syria and Israel, is characterized by metallic green or green-blue coloration, a strongly modified male abdomen and a relatively robust aedeagus. The Nymphius species have been recently reviewed by Bezděk (2008). When compared with the identification key to the genera of afrotropical Monoleptites (e. g. Wagner 2007), Chikatunolepta n. gen. runs to couplets 4 – 5 (non-metallic species with subequal antennomeres II and III – genera Monolepta, Afromaculepta Hasenkamp & Wagner, 2010 and Afronaumannia Steiner & Wagner, 2005). The characters distinguishing Monolepta and Afromaculepta are discussed above. Afronaumannia includes five afrotropical species and differs from Chikatunolepta n. gen. by subtrapezoidal pronotum, antennomere III longer than II, not modified male abdomen, and different structure of aedeagus and its internal sclerites (Steiner & Wagner 2005).	en	Bezděk, Jan (2020): Chikatunolepta n. gen. - a new genus of Saharo-Arabian Monoleptites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (2): 11-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3945126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3945125
03FE8799FF882163A1490F5F1AA48A4E.taxon	description	(Figs 1, 2, 7, 8, 13 – 24, 53, 54)	en	Bezděk, Jan (2020): Chikatunolepta n. gen. - a new genus of Saharo-Arabian Monoleptites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (2): 11-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3945126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3945125
03FE8799FF882163A1490F5F1AA48A4E.taxon	description	Main diagnostic characters: Male (Fig. 1). Abdomen with ventrite I not modified, II slightly elevated, III with short flat finger-like process obliquely directed posteriorly, IV with raised posterior margin; middle parts of ventrites I, II and IV covered with long pale setae (Figs 13 – 15). Protarsomere I subtriangular. Mesotibiae widely rounded with vertical subapical lamela dorsally, mesotarsomere I enlarged (Figs 20, 21). Female (Fig. 2). Spermatheca with apical part of cornu longer than basal part, appendix shorter than apical part of cornu (Fig. 17).	en	Bezděk, Jan (2020): Chikatunolepta n. gen. - a new genus of Saharo-Arabian Monoleptites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (2): 11-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3945126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3945125
03FE8799FF882163A1490F5F1AA48A4E.taxon	materials_examined	Holotype (examined, Figs 53, 54): ♂ Saudi Arabia: Maraba, 16. x. 1979, W. Büttiker (NHMB). Other material examined: Yemen: 2 ♂ 3 ♀, Al Hudaydah prov., Jabal Bura valley forest N. P., 15 ° 52.4 – 5 ' N 43 ° 24.6 – 25.2 ' E, 240 – 350 m, 4. xi. 2010, J. Bezděk (JBCB); 1 ♂, Jabal Bura, 14 ° 52 ' N 43 ° 24 ' E, 225 – 600 m, 30. x – 1. xi. 2005, S. Kadlec (JBCB); 2 ♂ 4 ♀, same data but P. Kabátek (JBCB); 1 ♂, Wadi Anis, 60 km SW of Sana, 15 ° 00 ' N 44 ° 09 ' E, 1522 m, 7. x. 2005, P. Kabátek (JBCB); 1 ♀, Suq ad Dabab, SWW of Ta´izz, 13 ° 32 ' N 43 ° 57 ' E, 1208 m, 26. x. 2005, S. Kadlec (JBCB); 2 ♀, Wadi Surdud (Sari), W of Sana, 15 ° 15 ' N 43 ° 30 ' E, 627 m, 2. xi. 2005, P. Kabátek (JBCB).	en	Bezděk, Jan (2020): Chikatunolepta n. gen. - a new genus of Saharo-Arabian Monoleptites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (2): 11-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3945126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3945125
03FE8799FF882163A1490F5F1AA48A4E.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Saudi Arabia (Medvedev 1996), Yemen (Bezděk 2012; present study). Comparison: The males of Chikatunolepta buettikeri differ from Ch. emir and Ch. millingeni in the presence of subapical vertical lamela on mesotibia (Figs 20, 21) and the structure of abdomen having short and wide process on ventrite III and missing process on ventrite II (Figs 13 – 15). The females are indistinguishable in habitus.	en	Bezděk, Jan (2020): Chikatunolepta n. gen. - a new genus of Saharo-Arabian Monoleptites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (2): 11-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3945126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3945125
03FE8799FF882163A1490F5F1AA48A4E.taxon	discussion	Comments: In the figure plate in the original description of Calomicrus buettikeri, Medvedev (1996: 251) interchanged the drawings of the abdomina of C. buettikeri and C. millingeni. Contrary to the plate legend, his figure 47 pertains to C. buettikeri and figure 49 to C. millingeni. This mistake was adopted by Lopatin (2002, 2006) when describing C. friedmani and C. emir. 22 23 24	en	Bezděk, Jan (2020): Chikatunolepta n. gen. - a new genus of Saharo-Arabian Monoleptites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (2): 11-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3945126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3945125
03FE8799FF87216DA13B0DC1185C8B80.taxon	description	(Figs 3, 4, 9, 10, 25 – 36, 49 – 51, 55, 56)	en	Bezděk, Jan (2020): Chikatunolepta n. gen. - a new genus of Saharo-Arabian Monoleptites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (2): 11-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3945126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3945125
03FE8799FF87216DA13B0DC1185C8B80.taxon	description	Female (Fig. 4). Spermatheca with apical part of cornu longer than basal part, appendix as long as apical part of cornu (Fig. 29).	en	Bezděk, Jan (2020): Chikatunolepta n. gen. - a new genus of Saharo-Arabian Monoleptites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (2): 11-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3945126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3945125
03FE8799FF87216DA13B0DC1185C8B80.taxon	materials_examined	Holotype (examined, Figs 55, 56): ♂ United Arab Emirates: Wadi Wurayah [25.24 ° N 56.17 ° E], 12 – 14. iv. 2005, T. van Harten (ZIN). Other material examined: United Arab Emirates: 2 ♂ 2 ♀, N of Masafi, 27. xi. 2019, M. Snížek (JBCB); 1 ♂, Ras Al Khaimah, Wadi Shawqa, 25 ° 06 ' N 56 ° 02 ' E, 20. iii. 2007, J. Batelka (JBCB); 2 ♂ 7 ♀, Ras Al Khaimah, Wadi Shawqa, 25 ° 06 ' N 56 ° 02 ' E, 3. x. 2007, J. Batelka (JBCB); 13 ♂ 11 ♀, Wadi Safad, 25 ° 13 ' N 56 ° 19 ' E, 15 – 22. iv. 2006, A. Van Harten (JBCB). Oman: 5 ♂ 4 ♀, Jabal Akhdar, 15 km N of Nizza, 23 ° 00 ' N 57 ° 34 ' E, 11. ii. 2007, L. Major (JBCB).	en	Bezděk, Jan (2020): Chikatunolepta n. gen. - a new genus of Saharo-Arabian Monoleptites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (2): 11-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3945126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3945125
03FE8799FF87216DA13B0DC1185C8B80.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Oman (Monks et al. 2019; present study), United Arab Emirates (Lopatin 2006, 2008; Bezděk & Batelka 2011; present study). Comparison: The males of Ch. emir are very similar to that of Ch. millingeni. Both species differ in the structure of abdominal appendages: process on ventrite II is widely subtriangular, flat and much shorter than lanceolate and much longer process on ventrite III in Ch. emir, while process on ventrite II is long, narrowly subtriangular, only slightly shorter than very long, narrow and parallel process on ventrite III in Ch. millingeni (Figs 25 – 27, 37 – 39). The females are indistinguishable in habitus.	en	Bezděk, Jan (2020): Chikatunolepta n. gen. - a new genus of Saharo-Arabian Monoleptites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (2): 11-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3945126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3945125
03FE8799FF872168A13609E4181D8C0F.taxon	description	(Figs 5, 6, 11, 12, 37 – 48, 52, 57 – 64)	en	Bezděk, Jan (2020): Chikatunolepta n. gen. - a new genus of Saharo-Arabian Monoleptites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (2): 11-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3945126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3945125
03FE8799FF872168A13609E4181D8C0F.taxon	description	Main diagnostic characters: Male (Fig. 5). Abdomen modified as follows: ventrite I moderately elevated, II with long pyramidal process directed obliquely anteriorly, III with long narrow subparallel process with sharp bent apex, IV with raised posterior margin; middle parts of ventrites I, II and IV covered with long pale setae (Figs 37 – 39). Protarsomere I subpentagonal. Mesotibiae widely rounded in apical half, without subapical lamela, mesotarsomere I enlarged (Figs 44, 45). Female (Fig. 6). Spermatheca with apical part of cornu as long as basal part, appendix longer than apical part of cornu (Fig. 41). Syntype of Luperus millingeni (examined, Figs 57 – 59): ♂ Saudi Arabia: El Hajaz [= Saudi Arabia, Hejaz region], Millingen (MNHN).	en	Bezděk, Jan (2020): Chikatunolepta n. gen. - a new genus of Saharo-Arabian Monoleptites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (2): 11-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3945126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3945125
03FE8799FF872168A13609E4181D8C0F.taxon	materials_examined	Holotype of Calomicrus friedmani (examined, Figs 60 – 64): ♂ Israel: Bor Hemet, 19. iv. 2001, L. Friedman (TAUI). Other material examined: Yemen: 2 ♂, Lawdar, NE of Adan, 1145 m, 22. x. 2005, P. Kabátek (JBCB). Oman: 2 ♂, Taqah env., 270 – 350 m, 18 – 21. ix. 2003, R. Červenka (JBCB); 1 ♂ 6 ♀, Darbaat, 18 – 21. ix. 2003, R. Červenka (JBCB); 1 ♂, Dhofar, Jabal Samhán, 15 km W of Jufa, 27. ix. 2011, J. Voříšek (JBCB).	en	Bezděk, Jan (2020): Chikatunolepta n. gen. - a new genus of Saharo-Arabian Monoleptites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (2): 11-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3945126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3945125
03FE8799FF872168A13609E4181D8C0F.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Algeria (Peyerimhoff 1931), Israel (Lopatin 2002; Chikatunov et al. 2006), Oman (Medvedev 1996, 1997; present study), Saudi Arabia (Medvedev 1996, 1997), Yemen (Bezděk 2012; present study). Comparison: Chikatunolepta millingeni is very similar to Ch. emir. The males of both species can be distinguished by the structure of abdominal appendages (see Comparison under Ch. emir). The females are indistinguishable in habitus.	en	Bezděk, Jan (2020): Chikatunolepta n. gen. - a new genus of Saharo-Arabian Monoleptites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (2): 11-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3945126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3945125
03FE8799FF872168A13609E4181D8C0F.taxon	discussion	Comments: The primary type specimens of Calomicrus friedmani and Luperus millingeni were examined and compared. The holotype of Luperodes artificiosus was not studied but the description is provided with the drawing of a very characteristic structure of the abdomen (Fig. 52). In sum, I consider all three taxa conspecific and I synonymize Calomicrus friedmani and Lyperodes artificiosus with Chikatunolepta millingeni. Lopatin (2002), when describing Calomicrus friedmani, apparently did not examine type specimens of C. millingeni and C. buettikeri, and used only the description and drawings from Medvedev (1996) where the abdomina drawings are interchanged. Lopatin (2002) compared Calomicrus friedmani with the correct mid tibia of C. buettikeri, but the drawing of the abdomen pertains in fact to C. millingeni. Due to this confusion Lopatin (2002) was unable to compare his specimen correctly with related species and described it as new species, although it was conspecific with C. millingeni. The same mistake renders the identification key in Lopatin (2006) unusable.	en	Bezděk, Jan (2020): Chikatunolepta n. gen. - a new genus of Saharo-Arabian Monoleptites (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 50 (2): 11-29, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3945126, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3945125
