Pygopleurus anemoninus (Brulle, 1832)
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4674.2.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5690511 |
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Pygopleurus anemoninus |
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Pygopleurus anemoninus View in CoL species-group
This group is defined by the peculiar shape of everted endophallus and paramera strongly narrowing in the distal half ( Figs. 22 View FIGURES 18–24 , 29 View FIGURES 25–31 ), very distinct from other Pygopleurus and suggestive of the monophyly of the group, and by the clypeus lacking a medial carina in both sexes, a condition exclusive to this group within the Greek fauna. Other non-exclusive characters are: elytra unicolored, long, raised setation of elytra with black setae commonly present at least in the basal area, rarely all setae light-colored (observed in females only); setation evidently denser in the inner two-thirds of elytra, scarce or absent in the external third; elytral apex rounded.
The group includes two species from Greece ( P. anemoninus and P. pseudopsilotrichius ) and one from Anatolia ( P. kareli ( Petrovitz, 1962)) , whose everted endophallus is pictured in Bollino & Ruzzante (2015).
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