Hycleus borchmannianus ( Kaszab, 1983 ) Bologna & Turco, 2007

Bologna, Marco A. & Turco, Federica, 2007, The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of the United Arab Emirates with an updated Arabian checklist, Zootaxa 1625 (1), pp. 1-33 : 24

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1625.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7BB259DD-7895-44CB-82D6-0C7905049320
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5103379
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FB4051-D650-DC1B-229F-FD74B61767D0
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Hycleus borchmannianus ( Kaszab, 1983 )
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Hycleus borchmannianus ( Kaszab, 1983) n. comb.

Distribution. Endemic to Yemen.

New records. Yemen: between Umm Laylá (17°17’N 43°27’E) and Begin (17°24’N 43°27’E), vii.1981, M. Borri & M. Poggesi coll. 1 ex. ( CB) GoogleMaps .

Remarks. The phylogenetic relationships of this species are still not clarified. Kaszab (1983) compared it to H. fimbriatus (Marseul, 1870) , which actually belongs to a different group, well characterized by the mesosternal and aedeagus features (see Pardo Alcaide 1963). This small species is distinct because of the antennal shape with an evident terminal club, and the subglobose pronotum.