Microhoria emaciata (Pic, 1896)

Telnov, Dmitry, 2022, Revisional notes on the genus Microhoria Chevrolat, 1877 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthicidae) from the Eastern Mediterranean and Turkey, with new descriptions, an annotated catalogue, and a key, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 22 (2), pp. 195-312 : 230-231

Microhoria emaciata (Pic, 1896) ( Fig. 17 )

= Anthicus Leuthneri var. creticus Pic, 1903 syn. nov.

Anthicus emaciatus Pic, 1896: 180 (description, key).

Anthicus Leuthneri var. creticus Pic, 1903: 170 (description).

Anthicus emaciatus – Pic 1897b: 219 (checklist, record – European Turkey); Pic 1911a: 45 (checklist, record – Syria).

Anthicus (Immicrohoria) emaciatus – Winkler 1927: 849 (checklist); Hariri 1968: 206 (checklist).

Microhoria emaciata – Uhmann 1985: 199 (new combination, record – Crete; incorrectly listed Syria as the type locality]; Chandler et al. 2008: 440 (new combination, checklist); Kejval & Chandler 2020: 131 (assigned to the M. terminata species group); Telnov 2020a: 609 (checklist).

Anthicus Leuthneri var. creticus – Reitter 1906: 445; Pic 1911: 58 (checklist); Winkler 1927: 850 (checklist).

Anthicus leuthneri var. creticus – Mitter 1982: 49 (record – Crete); Nardi 2003: 62 (taxonomy). Anthicus creticus – Chandler et al. 2008: 441 (new synonymy, as synonym of M. leuthneri , checklist); Telnov 2020a: 612 (checklist, as synonym of M. leuthneri ).

Type material Microhoria emaciata . Lectotype male [here designated] MNHN: Suda Bay [printed] // 6 [handwritten] // corallicollis Rtt N var. (…) [handwritten, in part unreadable] // type [handwritten] // emaciatus Pic [handwritten]; Paralectotype 1 female: Suda Bay [printed] // TYPE [printed, label red] // emaciatus Pic [handwritten] // Krekich vidit [handwritten] // TYPE [printed, label red].

Type material Anthicus Leuthneri var. creticus . Syntype 1 female MNHN: Crete Khania [handwritten, partly unreadable] // type [handwritten] // TYPE [printed, label red] // Leuthneri Pics esp. Creticus Pic [handwritten].

New material. 4 specimens BMNH: Suda Bay [these specimens are from the same series in the collection of Champion the type material was selected from by Pic] .

Supplementary description. Belongs to the M. terminata species group. Male lectotype. Head black, pronotum pale rufous with area of latero­basal fovea somewhat paler, elytra black­brown to black. Antennomeres 1–5 yellow, remaining antennomeres darkened. Palps and legs yellowish brown, tibiae distinctly paler than femora. Head barely longer than wide, basal margin rounded in one broad arc with posterior temporal angles. Compound eye moderate, moderately protruding from lateral outline of head. Head dorsum glossy, rather sparsely, minutely punctate. Intervening spaces about twice as wide as punctures, smooth. Dorsal cranial setae whitish, sparse, appressed to subdecumbent. Antenna vaguely thickened in apical half. Terminal antennomere elongate, apically pointed, about twice as long as penultimate antennomere, as long as combined length of antennomeres 9–10. Pronotum about as long as wide, narrower than head across eyes, moderately glossy, rounded at anterior margin. Lateral margins strongly impressed in posterior half. Latero­basal pronotal fovea broad and deep, with curved, whitish setation. Pronotal disc slightly convex in dorsal aspect, punctures similar to those on head. Pronotal setae whitish, subdecumbent. Elytra about 1.6–1.7× as long as wide, laterally slightly widened in median third, dorsally flattened to barely convex. Humerus broadly rounded, not protruding. Apex of elytron modified, channel of gland forming small, oval opening in a dorsally slightly raised apical area of elytron. Elytral disc glossy, punctures somewhat coarser than those on forebody. Intervening spaces about as wide as to 3× as wide as punctures, smooth, glossy. Elytral setae whitish, moderately long, moderately dense, subdecumbent. Legs without modifications, tibial terminal spurs paired. Tergite VII and morphological sternite VII subtruncate at posterior margin. Aedeagus as in Fig. 17B . Tegmen short, broad, with strongly hooked apex (hook is strongly rounded, not acutely angulate); endophallic armature with a pair of moderate, slightly curved spines and a bunch of some nearly straight spines.

Sexual dimorphism. Female with more robust body, comparatively wider, apically non­modified elytra.

Ecology. Unknown.

Distribution. Greece (Kríti / Crete Island). Records from Lebanon and Syria require confirmation. Pic (1897b) erroneously mentions European Turkey as the type locality. It is likely that Pic (1911) misinterpreted the location of Suda Bay and therefore listed Syria instead of Greece (Crete) in his checklist. This was subsequently followed by Uhmann (1985) and Telnov (2020a).

Chorotype. E­Mediterranean (3.03 EME), considered restricted to Crete (3000.07 CRET).

Figures

Fig. 17. Microhoria emaciata (Pic, 1896) male lectotype.A – Habitus, dorsal view; B –Aedeagus, lateral view [not to scale].