Zonitoschema species

Batelka, Jan & Bologna, Marco A., 2014, A review of the Saharo-Sindian species of the genus Zonitoschema (Coleoptera: Meloidae), with description of new species from Tunisia, Yemen and Socotra Island, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54, pp. 241-268 : 262-263

Key to Zonitoschema species of the Saharo-Sindian Region

Note. Species in square brackets are distributed in Eastern Africa but have been erroneously recorded from the Saharo-Sindian Region).

1 Head and pronotum reddish, elytra mostly ochre, with apical fourth and setae reddish. Head and pronotum surface shiny, pronotum punctures shallow and sparse. ................... .................................................................................................. Z. rubricolor Pic, 1924

– Head, pronotum and elytra completely yellow-brown, setae on whole elytra pale. Head and pronotum surface not so shiny, punctures deep and dense. ..................................... 2

2 Femora completely yellow. ............................................................... Z. arabica sp. nov.

– Femora black in apical fourth. ........................................................................................ 3

3 Antennomere I black. .............................................................. [ Z. griseohirta Pic, 1914 ]

– Antennomere I yellow. ................................................................................................... 4

4 Antennomere II yellow. .................................................................................................. 5

– Antennomere II black. .................................................................................................... 8

5 Pronotum widest in middle and not neck-like narrowed in fore third, almost or as long as wide. .................................................................................................. Z. kaszabi sp. nov.

– Pronotum longer than wider, not evidently widened in middle. .................................... 6

6 Mouthparts as long as head capsule in lateral view. ......................................................... ..... Z. sp. cf. gibdoana partim [and Z. gibdoana ( Kaszab, 1956) , Z. paolii Pic, 1914 ]

– Mouthparts in lateral view distinctly shorter than head capsule. ................................... 7

7 Pronotum distinctly parallel-sided (Algerian Sahara). ...................................................... ............................................................................... Z. oculatissima Peyerimhoff, 1929

– Pronotum slightly widened in middle (eastern Sahel, Negev, Arabian Peninsula, S Iran). ................................................................................................ Z. iranica Kaszab, 1959

8 Male and female temples subparallel; parameres hooked posteriad. ................................ ......................................................................... Z. sp. cf. genicularis (Wellman, 1910)

– Male temples short and strongly converging on occiput; parameres slender and not hooked posteriad. ........................................................................................................................ 9

9 Elytral surface shiner, without obvious venation; temples in male less inclined and convergent posteriorly; elytra ca. 4.4 times as long as pronotum in both sexes; male genitalia as in Fig. 53 . .................................................................... Z. pallidissima ( Reitter, 1908)

– Elytral surface sub-opaque, with well visible venation; temples in male clearly inclined and convergent; elytra ca. 4.1 times as long as pronotum in male, 4.6 times in female; male genitalia as in Figs 58, 59 . .................................................... Z. chourriba sp. nov.

Figures

Figs 50–59. Male genitalia, lateral view (57 and 59, dorsal view). 50–51 – Z. genicularis (Wellman, 1910): 50 – specimen from Zambia; 51 – specimen from Somalia (parameres only). 52 – Z. iranica Kaszab, 1959 from Israel. 53 – Z. pallidissima (Reitter, 1908). 54 – Z. gibdoana (Kaszab, 1956) from Kenya.55 – Z. sp. from Kenya (a species similar in colouration to Z. sp. cf. genicularis (Wellman, 1910)). 56–57 – Zonitoschema arabica sp. nov., holotype. 58–59 – Zonitoschema chourriba sp. nov., paratype. Not to the same scale.