Nymphius pravei ( Jacobson, 1899 )

Bezděk, Jan, 2008, New species and subspecies of Nymphius (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) from Iran and Turkey, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 48 (1), pp. 79-93 : 87-88

Nymphius pravei ( Jacobson, 1899)

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Lyperus pravei Jacobson, 1899: 141 .

Luperus (Luperus) pravei: OGLOBLIN (1936) .

Luperus (s. str.) pravei: LOPATIN (1977) (key), LOPATIN & KULENOVA (1986) (key).

Luperus (Luperus) Pravei : WEISE (1924) (catalogue).

Luperus (Nymphius) Pravei : LABOISSIÈRE (1913), LABOISSIÈRE (1925) (catalogue), WINKLER (1930) (catalogue).

Luperus pravei: MEDVEDEV (1965) (key), BIEŃKOVSKI (1999) (key), BIEŃKOVSKI (2004) (key).

Nymphius pravei: WILCOX (1973) (catalogue), FOGATO (1981) (designation of neotype), WARCHAŁOWSKI (2003) (key), LOPATIN et al. (2004) (catalogue).

Type locality. Originally described from ‘Caucasus sept.-occid.:districtus Ejskensis provinciae Kubanensis, qui situs est ad mare Maeoticum’ [= Yeysk, Krasnodarskiy Kray, Russia] ( JACOBSON 1899). Due to the neotype designation by FOGATO (1981), the type locality is replaced by ‘Askania Nova Dniepr. U. Tavr. G.’ [= Askania Nova Biosphere Reserve, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine].

Type material. Not examined.The original type material is lost. The neotype was designated by FOGATO (1981) and is deposited in the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg ( Russia).

Additional material examined (4 spec.). RUSSIA: VOLGOGRADSKAYA obl., Sarepta, without date, 1 ♁, Merkel leg. ( ZMHB) ; same locality, 1 ♁ 1 ♀, Bodemeyer leg. ( ZMHB). STAVROPOLSKIY kray, Stavropol, without additional data, 1 spec. ( ZMHB) .

Distribution. Ukraine ( FOGATO 1981, OGLOBLIN 1936), Russia: Krasnodarskiy Kray ( JACOBSON 1899, OGLOBLIN 1936), Volgogradskaya obl. ( LABOISSIÈRE 1913, OGLOBLIN 1936), Rostovskaya obl. ( OGLOBLIN 1936), Astrakhanskaya obl. ( OGLOBLIN 1936), Samarskaya obl. ( OGLOBLIN 1936). In various catalogues and keys listed also from Caucasus ( WEISE 1924, LABOISSIÈRE 1925, WINKLER 1930, WILCOX 1973, BIEŃKOVSKI 2004) and North-east Kazakhstan ( LOPATIN 1977; LOPATIN & KULENOVA 1986; BIEŃKOVSKI 1999, 2004; WARCHAŁOWSKI 2003; LOPATIN et al. 2004).

Figures

Figs. 5-8. Male abdomen (a – ventral view; b – lateral view). 5 – Nymphius pravei (Jacobson, 1899); 6 – N. stylifer stylifer (Weise, 1899); 7 – N. stylifer ogloblini (Bogachev, 1947); 8 – N. stylifer kadleci ssp. nov. Scale: 2 mm for Figs. 7-8; Figs. 5-6 redrawn from FOGATO (1981).

Figs. 9-16. Aedeagus (a – dorsal view; b – lateral view). 9 – Nymphius ensifer (Guillebeau, 1891); 10 – N. forcipifer (Weise, 1900); 11 – N. gianassoi sp. nov.; 12 – N. lydius (Weise, 1886); 13 – N. pravei (Jacobson, 1899); 14 – N. stylifer stylifer (Weise, 1899); 15 – N. stylifer ogloblini (Bogachev, 1947); 16 – N. stylifer kadleci ssp. nov. Scale: 1 mm for Figs. 11, 14-16; Figs. 9-10, 12-13 redrawn from FOGATO (1981).