Cetonia kemali DELPONT , 1995

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Cetonia kemali DELPONT, 1995

M a t e r i a l e x a m i n e d: Antalya: 20.V.1984, ♀ ; Korkuteli , 700 m, 22.VI.2013, 3 ; Isparta: Çobanisa , 01.VII.1998, 3♀♀, 333 .

N o t e s: This taxon is very close to C. delagrangei and, as pointed out by TAUZIN (2009b) it may represent a local form of the latter, or even an hybridogenetic taxon arising from C. delagrangei and C. aurata pallida. In addition, we note that the characters differentiating C. delagrangei from C. kemali are not well defined: the supposedly diagnostic condition of hairs on the head (that should be present in C. kemali and absent in C. delagrangei ) is not constant, as we could study specimens obviously referrable to C. delagrangei with well-developed hairs on the vertex from Lebanon, Bsharri, as well as others from Topaktas ( Hatay), as mentioned under this species. Also the purported differences in the morphology of the aedeagus illustrated by DELPONT (1995 figs. 6 and 18) are not reliable: in C. delagrangei specimens examined by us the apex of paramera (dorsal view) is not regularly curved until the apical hook as illustrated by DELPONT (1995: fig. 18), but has an evident notch parting the soft pre-apical part from the more sclerified area, producing a profile of the sclerified area much like that drawn for C. kemali (1995: fig. 6).