Globicornis bifasciata ( Perris, 1866 )

Holloway, Graham J. & Luna, Ivan Cañada, 2023, Globicornis peckhamae (Coleoptera, Dermestidae, Megatominae), a new species from Mallorca, and a description of Globicornis bifasciata, Zootaxa 5306 (2), pp. 297-300 : 297

Globicornis bifasciata ( Perris, 1866)

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Externally, the two species were very similar, and the original description ( Perris 1866) is insufficient to indicate which of the species was being referred to. The holotype of G. bifasciata was obtained from INRAE, Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations, Montpellier, France for dissection. The holotype is small, BL = 2.075 mm, and slim BW/BL = 0.593. The aedeagus is broad and angular, parallel-sided, with a slim median lobe. This information definitively indicates which of the species Perris (1866) was in possession of when he named it G. bifasciata .

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FIGURE 3. Globicornis bifasciata, A: habitus holotype (scale bar = 1mm), B: aedeagus holotype ventral aspect (scale bar = 100µm), C: aedeagus lateral aspect (scale bar = 100µm), D: sternite IX (scale bar = 100µm).