Cerocoma (Cerocoma) simplicicornis Reitter, 1913

Turco, Federica & Bologna, Marco A., 2011, Systematic revision of the genus Cerocoma Geoffroy, 1762 (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Cerocomini) 2853, Zootaxa 2853 (1), pp. 1-71 : 25-26

Cerocoma (Cerocoma) simplicicornis Reitter, 1913

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Cerocoma dahli var. simplicicornis Reitter, 1913: 193 .

Cerocoma dahli ab. aeneipes Reitter, 1913: 193.

Cerocoma dahli ab. aeneiceps, Mařan, 1944: 86 (lapsus calami).

Cerocoma (Cerocoma) simplicicornis, Kaszab, 1951: 265 , 268, 272; Dvořák, 1989: 6, 12.

Type locality. “ Araxes” ( Reitter 1913). The Transcaucasian valley of the Araxes River runs across North East Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and the type locality cannot be better defined .

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 As explained for C. prochaskana , we accept the unpublished selection of Reitter’s types, probably made by Kaszab, and we designate them lectotype and paralectotypes. The lectotype and one paralectotype have been examined, together with the lectotype of C. dahli ab. a eneipes, which was considered as a synonym according to Kaszab’s identification label (see below).

Lectotype ♂: Caucasus. / Araxesthal. / Leder. Reitter. (white with black frame, printed) // Holotypus 1913 / Cerocoma Dahli / v. simplicicornis / Reitter (white with red frame, printed and handwritten) // Dahli v. / simplicicor / nis m. type (white, handwritten, turned upside down) // Cerocoma ♂ / simplicicornis Rtt. / det. Dr. Kaszab (white, printed and handwritten) // LECTOTYPE ♂ / Cerocoma simplicicornis / Reitter, 1913 / Turco & Bologna des. 2009 (red, printed) ( HNHM).

1 paralectotype ♂: Caucasus. / Araxesthal. / Leder. Reitter. (white with black frame, printed) // Paratypus 1913 ♂ / Cerocoma Dahli / v. simplicicornis / Reitter (white with red frame, printed and handwritten) // Cerocoma ♂ / simplicicornis Rtt. / det. Dr. Kaszab (white, printed and handwritten) // PARALECTOTYPE ♂ / Cerocoma simplicicornis / Reitter, 1913 / Turco & Bologna des. 2009 (red, printed) ( HNHM). Left antenna is missing (only two antennomeres remain).

Lectotype ♀: Caucasus. / Araxesthal. / Leder. Reitter. (white with black frame, printed) // Holotypus 1913 ♀ / Cerocoma Dahli / ab. aeneipes / Reitter (white with red frame, printed and handwritten) // Dahli v. / aeneipes m. (white, handwritten, turned upside down) // Cerocoma ♂ / simplicicornis Rtt. / det. Dr. Kaszab (white, printed and handwritten) // LECTOTYPE ♀ / Cerocoma dahli / ab. aeneipes Reitter, 1913 / Turco & Bologna des. 2009 (red, printed) ( HNHM). Left metatarsus is missing.

Description. Male. Body metallic dark green with short, sparse pubescence; legs, antennae and mouthparts, including maxillary palpi, dark yellow.

Head transverse with slightly protruding eyes and extremely shallow frontal calli. Maxillary palpi very weakly modified and only palpomere II bears a very short apical expansion on the internal side; IV very long and slender ( Fig. 3W ). Antennae scarcely modified with antennomere I bearing only a bulge on the external side and a more obvious bulge dorsally; III about 1.5x as long as II; IV–VI only slightly expanded ventrally, IV with a pointed expansion; IX rounded dorsally and distinctly pointed ventrally ( Fig. 2W ).

Legs scarcely modified with protibiae simply cylindrical ( Fig. 4W ), protarsomeres distinctly longer the protibiae and only slightly dorso-ventrally flattened.

Gonostyli, in lateral view, slightly curved, with apical lobes dorsally directed; apical lobes, in dorsal view, swollen and parallel. Apex of aedeagus rounded; aedeagal hooks equal in size. Sclerotised hooks of endophallus small and very close to each other, equal in size, both pointing outwards ( Fig. 6W ).

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

Taxonomy. This species has the least modified male antennae, tarsi and legs in the genus.

Distribution. Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran.

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).