Adelostoma (Zarudnionymus) abyssinicum abyssinicum Haag-Rutenberg, 1872

Purchart, Luboš, 2012, Revision of the genus Adelostoma (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Part 1: subgenus Zarudnionymus Semenov & Bogatchev, 1947, Zootaxa 3164, pp. 17-31 : 19

Adelostoma (Zarudnionymus) abyssinicum abyssinicum Haag-Rutenberg, 1872

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Adelostoma abyssinicum Haag-Rutenberg, 1872: 422 –423 .

Adelostoma abyssinicum Haag-Rutenberg, 1875: 64 –65 [422–423] (duplicate description).— Gebien 1937: 677; Gridelli 1940: 226; Lillig & Bremer 2002: 48.

Adelostoma hirsutum Koch, 1935a: 39 –40 .— Gebien 1937: 678 (synonymized by Gridelli 1940: 226).

Zarudnyonymus [sic!] abyssinicus abyssinicus : Ardoin 1976: 149.

Falsaspila abyssinicum : Ardoin 1972: 6; Ferrer 2001: 99.

Adelostoma abyssinica [sic!]: Ferrer 2001: 102.

Falsaspila abyssinica : Ferrer 2001: 102.

Adelostoma (Zarudnyonymus) [sic!] a. abyssinicum: Purchart 2007: 244 .

Type locality. State of Eritrea, Asmara.

Type material. Lectotype, designated here ( ZSM): Asmara,.... [unreadable] {handwritten} // Sammlung Haag-Rutenberg {printed} // Abyss., Raffray {blue, printed} // PARATYPUS, Adelostoma abyssinicum Haag , exam. C. KOCH {printed and handwritten} // Paratypus {red, printed} // LECTOTYPE, Adelostoma abyssinicum Haag-Rutenberg, 1872, desig. L. Purchart, 2011.

Note. According to Ferrer (2001), a further syntype is deposited in the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History (formerly Transvaal Museum), Pretoria, South Africa.

Additional material examined. ERITREA —(1 ZSM): Erytrea, Salomona // Adelostoma abyssinicum Haag // Zool. Staatssslg. München ; (1 NHMB-F): Erytrea, Salomona // Adelostoma abyssinicum Haag // Adelostoma abyssinicum Haag , det. E. Gridelli, 1940 ; (1 NHMB-F): Cheren [=Keren], Erythraea // Stand. //abyssin. // Sammlung Adr. Schuster ; (1 NMPC): Cheren, Erythraea // Adelostoma abyssinicum . ETHIOPIA?—(3 MNHN, 1 LPCB): Museum Paris, Abyssinie, Raffray, 1882 ; (1 MNHN): Abyssinia // Ex Museo E. Allard, 1899 ; (1 MNHN): ABYS., RAF. // MUSÉUM PARIS, 1939, Coll. H. SIETTI ; (1 MNHN): Abyssinia, Raffray {blue circle, handwritten} // Adelostoma abyssinicum Haag, 1875 {handwritten} // Ex Museo E. ALLARD, 1899 ; (1 BMNH): 364 // Adelostoma , Abyssinia, Raffray // Sharp Coll. 1905-313; (1 BMNH): 431 // Abyssinia, Raffray // Sharp Coll., 1905-313 ; (1 BMNH): Abyssin {rounded blue, handwritten} ; (1 MHNG): Abyss., Raffray // P. de Borre .

Distribution. State of Eritrea, ( Ethiopia?), Somalia ( Ferrer 2001)

Remarks. With the exception of type locality (Asmara, Eritrea), Salomona, Keren (both in Eritrea) and the locality (Galgalo, Somalia) given by Ferrer (2001) no further exact locality of the studied material is known. Major part of the studied material comes from “ Abyssinia ”, which is the area, previously known also as Ethiopian Empire. That was, what is now Ethiopia and some part south of Eritrea, but at its height the empire also included Northern Somalia, Djibouti, Southern Egypt, Eastern Sudan, Yemen and Western Saudi Arabia. It existed from approximately the 12th century until 1974. However, since the largest part of the empire lies in Ethiopia, I suppose that material which comes from Abyssinia was most likely collected in this country.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 7. Habitus, dorsal view. 1. Adelostoma abyssinicum abyssinicum (non-type); 2. A. a. hirsutum (non-type); 3. A. a. obockensis subsp. nov. (holotype); 4. A. batesi (non-type); 5. A. borowieci (non-type); 6. A. gilloni (non-type); 7. A. grande (non-type).

FIGURES 8 – 14. Pronotum, dorsal view. 8. Adelostoma abyssinicum abyssinicum (non-type); 9. A. a. hirsutum (non-type); 10. A. a. obockensis subsp. nov. (holotype); 11. A. batesi (non-type); 12. A. borowieci (non-type); 13. A. gilloni (non-type); 14. A. grande (non-type).

FIGURES 15 – 21. Antenna, dorsal view. Arrows indicate elongate third antennomere. 15. Adelostoma abyssinicum abyssinicum (non-type); 16. A. a. hirsutum (non-type); 17. A. a. obockensis subsp. nov. (holotype); 18. A. batesi (non-type); 19. A. borowieci (non-type); 20. A. gilloni (non-type); 21. A. grande (non-type).

FIGURES 22 – 24. Reflected portion of elytra (RFPE) with punctured intervals. Rectangles indicate the area first (1 st) and second (2 st) abdominal ventrites. Arrows indicate the range of RFPE. Latero-ventral view. 22. Adelostoma abyssinicum abyssinicum (non-type); 23. A. a. hirsutum (non-type); 24. A. a. obockensis subsp. nov. (paratype).