Cerocoma (Meloides) bodemeyeri Reitter, 1909

Turco, Federica & Bologna, Marco A., 2011, Systematic revision of the genus Cerocoma Geoffroy, 1762 (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Cerocomini) 2853, Zootaxa 2853 (1), pp. 1-71 : 37-38

Cerocoma (Meloides) bodemeyeri Reitter, 1909

Figs 2 AC, 3AC, 4AC, 6AC, 7F

Cerocoma bodemeyeri Reitter, 1909: 103 ; Reitter, 1913: 191.

Cerocoma gloriosa bodemeyeri, Mařan, 1944: 89 .

Cerocoma (Cerocoma) kunzei ab. bodemeyeri, Kaszab, 1951: 264 , 266, 272.

Cerocoma (Meloides) bodemeyeri, Dvořák, 1990: 7 .

Type locality. “ Persien. Luristan ” ( Reitter 1909).

Type specimens. As explained for C. prochaskana , we accept the unpublished selection of Reitter’s types, probably made by Kaszab, and we designate them lectotype and paralectotypes. Lectotype and two paralectotypes have been examined:

Lectotype ♂: v. Bodemeyer / Persien / Luristan (white, printed) // Holotypus 1909 / Cerocoma ♂ / Bodemeyeri / Reitter (white with red frame, printed and handwritten) // Bodemeyeri / m. Persien / 1909 (white, hand written, turned upside down) // Cerocoma ♂ / ab. Bodemeyeri Rtt. / det. dr. Kaszab (white, printed and handwritten) // LEC- TOTYPE ♂ / Cerocoma bodemeyeri / Reitter, 1909 / Turco & Bologna des. 2009 (red, printed) ( HNHM). Some parts of the specimen are missing: right antenna (except for the first two antennomeres), metatarsomeres, and right mesotarsomeres .

1 paralectotype ♀: v. Bodemeyer / Persien / Luristan (white, printed) // Allotypus 1909 / Cerocoma ♀ / Bodemeyeri / Reitter (white with red frame, printed and handwritten) // Cerocoma ♀ / ab. Bodemeyeri Rtt. / det. dr. Kaszab (white, printed and handwritten) // PARALECTOTYPE ♀ / Cerocoma bodemeyeri / Reitter, 1909 / Turco & Bologna des. 2009 (red, printed) ( HNHM). Metatarsi , right mesotarsomeres and left metatibia are missing .

1 paralectotype ♂: v. Bodemeyer / Persien / Luristan (white, printed) // Paratypus 1909 / Cerocoma ♂ / Bodemeyeri / Reitter (white with red frame, printed and handwritten) // Cerocoma ♂ / ab. Bodemeyeri Rtt. / det. dr. Kaszab (white, printed and handwritten) // PARALECTOTYPE ♂ / Cerocoma bodemeyeri / Reitter, 1909 / Turco & Bologna des. 2009 (red, printed) ( HNHM) .

Description. Male. Body metallic dark green with sparse yellow setae; frons with a central orange spot; abdomen orange, except for the last two segments dark green metallic; legs, antennae and mouthparts, including maxillary palpi, yellow-orange.

Head transverse with slightly protruding eyes. Maxillary palpi modified with palpomere II very wide, flattened and slightly curved; III long and swollen with rounded external side; IV elongate (about 2.5x as long as wide), parallel-sided and weakly bent near base ( Fig. 3 AC). Antennae modified with antennomere I bearing a narrow and apically bent expansion on the external side and dorsal keel wide, high and apically curved; III–VI very modified and ventrally expanded; III, in dorsal view, sinuate on the external side and rounded on the internal side, with a short and broad appendix on the internal apex ( Fig. 7F ); V with short setae on distal face of ventral laminar expansion; VI with a tuft of long and erect setae and a very long, narrow and distinctly curved expansion on ventral side; IX slightly transverse and rounded ( Fig. 2 AC).

Protibial keel extended to proximal 2/3 of the length of tibia, with dorsal edge straight and anterior edge bearing an angular bulge, visible in lateral view ( Fig. 4 AC). Protarsomeres weakly enlarged; II with an obvious dorsal bulge.

Gonostyli, in lateral view, straight, with apical lobes directed forward; apical lobes, in dorsal view, swollen and slightly diverging. Apex of aedeagus slightly pointed; aedeagal hooks equal in size. Sclerotised hooks of endophallus equal in size, both pointing backwards ( Fig. 6 AC).

Female. Not modified. Refer to key for diagnostic characters.

Distribution. Iraq, Iran. Doubtful records from W Turkey and Syria.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Male right antenna, lateral view: A, C. schreberi; B, C. martae; C, C. ephesica; D, C. prevezaensis; E, C. festiva; F, C. graeca; G, C. malatyensis; H, C. albopilosa; I, C. longiseta; J, C. barthelemyi; K, C. vahli; L, C. scovitzi; M, C. latreillei; N, C. adamovichiana; O, C. confusa; P, C. azurea; Q, C. turcica; R, C. muehlfeldi; S, C. schaefferi; T, C. prochaskana; U, C. dahli; V,C. bernhaueri; W, C. simplicicornis; X, C. gloriosa; Y, C. rapillyi; Z, C. marginiventris; AA, C. macedonica; AB, C. kunzei; AC, C. bodemeyeri. Scale bar = 1 mm.

FIGURE 3. Male right maxillary palp, dorsal view: for lettering refer to caption to Fig. 1. Scale bars = 1 mm (1: C–E, G–J, L– R, Y, AA–AC; 2: B, F, K, S–T, X, Z; 3: A, U–W).

FIGURE 4. Male right protibia, lateral view: for lettering refer to caption to Fig. 1. Scale bar = 1 mm.

FIGURE 6. Male external genitalia (from left to right: tegmen, dorsal and lateral views; aedeagus, lateral view): for lettering refer to caption to Fig. 1. Scale bars = 1 mm (1: A–E, H, L–M, R; 2: F–G, I–K, N–P, S–T, X–Y, AA–AC; 3: Q, U–W, Z).

FIGURE 7. Male antennomere III, dorsal view: A, C. gloriosa; B, C. rapillyi; C, C. marginiventris; D, C. macedonica; E, C. kunzei; F, C. bodemeyeri. Scale bar = 1 mm.