Hyperaspis vinciguerrae Capra, 1929

Biranvand, Amir, Tomaszewska, Wioletta, Nedvěd, Oldřich, Khormizi, Mehdi Zare, Nicolas, Vincent, Canepari, Claudio, Shakarami, Jahanshir, Fekrat, Lida & Fürsch, Helmut, 2017, Review of the tribe Hyperaspidini Mulsant (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from Iran, Zootaxa 4236 (2), pp. 311-326 : 321

Hyperaspis vinciguerrae Capra, 1929

( Figs. 12, 13 , 26, 27 )

Hyperaspis vinciguerrae Capra 1929: 241 .

Material examined. 1♀: Iran, Yazd province, Mehriz (31°34'36.1"N, 54°25'16.0"E), Medicago sp., VIII.2015, lgt. Mehdi Zare Khormizi, det. Canepari and Fürsch.

Distribution in Iran. Khuzestan ( Sadat Alizadeh et al. 2013), Yazd (current study).

General distribution. Libya, Saudi Arabia, Yemen ( Kovář 2007), United Arab Emirates ( Raimundo et al. 2008).

Host plants species in Iran. This species has been collected from Medicago sp. (current study).

Comments. Capra (1929) described Hyperaspis vinciguerrae from North Africa. This description was published in July, four months earlier than a very similar species H. maindroni described from India by Sicard (1929). According to C. Canepari these names are probably synonyms (Canepari, unpublished).

Remarks. Specimen examined is deposited in Plant Protection Department, Lorestan University, Agricultural Faculty, Khorramabad, Iran. We used the species descriptions and photographs by Capra (1929) and Raimundo et al. (2008) with some modifications for male genitalia. Figures 12 and 13 both show the same genitalia which were drawn from different angles.

Figures

FIGURES 9 – 13. Tegmen of the male genitalia of Hyperaspis species. 9, 10. H. reppensis (Herbst). 11. H. syriaca Weise. 12, 13. H. vinciguerrae Capra.

FIGURES 23 – 27. Dorsal habitus of Hyperaspis species. 23. H. reppensis (Herbst). 24. H. syriaca Weise. 25. H. transversoguttata Weise (female). 26. H. vinciguerrae Capra (female). 27. H. vinciguerrae Capra (male).