Laena deplanata Weise, 1878

Schawaller, Wolfgang, 2020, New taxonomic and faunistic data to species of the genus Laena Dejean from Turkey (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Lagriinae), with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 4861 (3), pp. 385-398 : 388

Laena deplanata Weise, 1878

( Figs. 14 , 26 )

Examined type specimen: Turkey, Smyrna, without further data, collection J. Weise MNB .

Examined specimen: Turkey, 80 km NW Izmir, W Karaburun, 440 m, 4.IV.2006, leg. V. Assing, 1 ex. SMNS .

Remarks: This is the only species of Laena in the western Palaearctic Region with extremely reduced eyes, each consisting only of a single ocella.

Published locality: Smyrna ( Schuster 1916).

Figures

FIGURES 9–21. Dorsal view of Laena species from Turkey (and few from Greece and Bulgaria). 9 L. ferruginea, Antalya, SMNS. 10 L. wanensis, Kayseri, SMNS. 11 L. merkli, Göksun, SMNS. 12 L. parvidens, Amasya, SMNS. 13 L. pici, Antakya, SMNS. 14 L. deplanata, Izmir, SMNS. 15 L. byzantina, Abant, SMNS. 16 L. bozdagica sp. nov., holotype SMNS. 17 L. sp. ♀, Antalya, SMNS. 18 L. lindbergi, Bingöl, SMNS. 19 L. korbi, Konya, SMNS. 20 L. obscuricornis, Tarsus, SMNS. 21 L. graeca, Bulgaria Burgas, SMNS. Scale line: 3.0 mm.

FIGURES 22–46. Right posterior male tibia of Laena species from Turkey and Greece (Figs. 22–25), and apicale of aedeagus of Laena species from Turkey and few from Greece (Figs. 26–46). 22 L. apfelbecki, Greece Évia, SMNS. 23 L. bozdagica sp. nov., holotype Izmir, SMNS. 24 L. kraatzi, Greece Chios, SMNS. 25 L. lindbergi, Bingöl, SMNS. 26 L. deplanata, Izmir, SMNS. 27 L. ferruginea, Greece Corfu, SMNS. 28 L. ferruginea, Antalya, SMNS (det. Kaszab as L. liliputana syn. nov.). 29 L. wanensis, Nur Daglari, SMNS. 30 L. bozdagica sp. nov., paratype Izmir, SMNS. 31 L. merkli, Hakkari, CPE. 32 L. obscuricornis, Meselik, SMNS. 33 L. byzantina, Artvin, SMNS. 34 L. korbi, Konya, SMNS. 35 L. lindbergi, Bitlis, SMNS. 36 L. apfelbecki, Greece Evia, SMNS. 37 L. pici, Antakya, SMNS. 38 L. ganglbaueri, Alem Dagh, SMNS. 39 L. weisei, Greece Sapka, SMNS. 40 L. theana, Erfelek, SMNS. 41 L. assingi sp. nov., holotype Fethiye, CPE. 42 L. graeca, Bolu, SMNS. 43 L. osmanlis, Bursa, SMNS. 44 L. quadricollis, Rize, SMNS. 45 L. quadricollis, Krasnodar Maikop, SMNS. 46 L. kraatzi, Alem Dagh, SMNS. Scale line: 1 mm.