Madurasia obscurella Jacoby, 1896

Bezděk, Jan, 2012, Galerucinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) of Socotra Island, with a review of taxa recorded from Yemen, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52, pp. 403-428 : 422

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5339720
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5415770
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scientific name	Madurasia obscurella Jacoby, 1896
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Material examined (2 spec.). YEMEN: SOCOTRA ISLAND: Wadi Ayhaft, 12°36.5′N 53°58.9′E, 200 m, 7.–8.xi.2010, 1 ♂ 1 ♀, J. Bezděk leg. ( JBCB).

Distribution. A species occuring in India (e. g. MAULIK 1936), Nepal ( TAKIZAWA 1990), Sri Lanka ( MOHAMEDSAID 1997), and continetal Yemen (present paper). Recorded also from Sudan ( LABOISSIÈRE 1926) under the name Neorudolphia bedfordi Laboissière, 1926 . First record from Socotra Island.

References

LABOISSIERE V. 1926: Description d'un nouveau genre et de trois nouvelles especes de Galerucini africains (Col.). Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique de France 1926: 190 - 193.

MAULIK S. 1936: The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae (Galerucinae). Taylor and Francis, London, xv + 648 pp.

MOHAMEDSAID M. S. 1997: The galerucine beetles of Sri Lanka, with descriptions of two new species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Stobaeana 9: 1 - 7.

TAKIZAWA H. 1990: Chrysomelid beetles of Nepal, Northeastern India and Western Sikkim collected by the Himalaya expeditions of the National Science Museum, Tokyo (Part 2). Japanese Journal of Entomology 58: 275 - 291.

Figures

Figs.13–18.Habitus.13 – Monolepta suchomeli sp. nov.(paratype, male, 1.9 mm); 14 – M.hlavaci sp. nov.(paratype, male, 2.9 mm); 15 – M. hlavaci sp. nov. (black form) (paratype, female, 2.8 mm); 16 – M. kmenti sp. nov. (holotype, male, 3.1 mm); 17 – Madurasia obscurella Jacoby, 1896 (female, 2.7 mm); 18 – Medythia sp. (female, 3.3 mm).