Colposcelis (Turcmenicola) lopatini G.S. Medvedev, 1970

Bekchanov, Norbek Kh., Nabozhenko, Maxim V. & Bekchanova, Mokhira Kh., 2023, Review of the subgenus Turcmenicola Bogatchev, 1952, the genus Colposcelis Dejean, 1834 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Tentyriini), Zootaxa 5375 (4), pp. 550-564 : 557

Colposcelis (Turcmenicola) lopatini G.S. Medvedev, 1970

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Medvedev 1970: 406 ( Colposcelis ( Turcmenicola )); Medvedev & Nepesova 1985: 66, fig. 28 ( Colposcelis ).

Type material. Holotype, ♂ and paratypes, 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀: “V. Turkmenia Kelif G. Medvedev 19.IV.68.” (Cyrillic label, handwritten by G.S. Medvedev). Holotype and paratypes are also provided with labels “ Holotypus Colposcelis lopatini G. Medv. ” and “ Paratypus Colposcelis lopatini G. Medv. ” respectively.

Distribution. The species is known only from the south of Kugitang Mts. in Turkmenistan.

Figures

FIGURE 7. Colposcelis lopatini, habitus, details of structure and labels. A = holotype, ♂, habitus dorsally; B = paratype, ♀, habitus dorsally; C = the other paratype, ♀, habitus ventrally; D = labels of the holotype; E = sculpture of mesoventrite, ♀; F = head and pronotum, ♀, dorsally.

FIGURE 8. Colposcelis lopatini, details of structure.A = apical antennomeres, ♀; B = tegmen of aedeagus; C = median lobe of aedeagus; D = spiculum gastrale; E = male inner sternite VIII; F = ovipositor ventrally.