Microhoria globipennis (Pic, 1897)

Telnov, Dmitry, 2022, Revisional notes on the genus Microhoria Chevrolat, 1877 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthicidae) from the Eastern Mediterranean and Turkey, with new descriptions, an annotated catalogue, and a key, Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 22 (2), pp. 195-312 : 234-236

Microhoria globipennis (Pic, 1897) ( Figs 19– 20 , 55A )

= Anthicus globipennis quercicola J.R. Sahlberg, 1913

Anthicus globipennis Pic, 1897c: 120 .

Anthicus globipennis – Pic 1901c: 255 (checklist); Pic 1911a: 51 (checklist).

Anthicus (Immicrohoria) globipennis – Winkler 1927: 849 (checklist); Hariri 1968: 206 (checklist).

Microhoria globipennis – Uhmann et al. 2005: 52 (new combination, bibliography); Kejval & Chandler 2020: 115 , 120, 123, 147 (new synonymy, taxonomy, supplementary description, key, bibliography, figures).

Microhoria globipennis globipennis – Chandler et al. 2008: 440 (new combination, checklist). Anthicus globipennis quercicola Sahlberg, 1913a: 59 (description)

Anthicus globipennis quercicola – Kejval & Chandler 2020: 123 (new synonymy); Telnov 2020b: 14 (new synonymy).

Anthicus globipennis var. quercicola Krekich­Strassoldo, 1913: 227 (description, junior homonym).

Anthicus (Bifossicollis) globipennis subsp. quercicola – Sahlberg 1913b: 193 (record – Turkey).

Anthicus (Immicrohoria) globipennis var. quercicola – Winkler 1927: 849 (checklist).

Microhoria globipennis var. quercicola – Uhmann et al. 2005: 52 (bibliography, distribution). Anthicus globipennis quercicola var. evanescens J. R. Sahlberg, 1913a: 59 is infrasubspecific and unavailable (see Chandler et al. 2004).

Type material studied. Syntypes Anthicus globipennis 2 specimens MNHN: Dr F. Leuthner DjebelAkrab 85 N. SYRIEN [printed, black frame] // type [handwritten, label yellowish] . Syntype Anthicus globipennis quercicola 1 male MNHN: BulgharDagh [printed] // J. Sahlb. [printed] // quercicola Sahlb. [handwritten] Spec. typ. [printed] // [handwritten] // A. quercicola n. sp. [handwritten, balck frame] .

New material. 1 female DTC: Turkey,Antakya, 30 km S Airport Akdari village–Hollow Q. coccifera 360439 N; 361420 E. P­trap: 1 Hollow Quercus 2011­ 4/17 Erol Atay / Nicklas Jansson; 1 female IUIT: Turkey, Antakya, 30 km S Airport Akdari village – Hollow Q. coccifera 360439 N; 361420 E. P­trap: 12a Hollow Quercus 2011­ 17/4 Erol Atay / Nicklas Jansson.

This species was redescribed recently ( Kejval & Chandler 2020) and does not require supplementary description.

Ecology. Some specimens were sifted from leaf litter in oak and laurel shrubs ( Kejval & Chandler 2020), some other sampled using pitfall traps installed in hollow cavities of veteran Quercus coccifera L. trees in an old cemetery with closed canopy at 320 m a.s.l. ( Fig. 55A ). Both traps No. 2 and 12 were installed in hollow openings at the ground level (tree trunks of 153 and 314 cm circumference, respectively).

Distribution. Syria, southern Turkey.

Chorotype. SW­Asiatic (1.13 SWA), considered restricted to N Syria and S Turkey.

Figures

Fig. 19. Microhoria globipennis (Pic, 1897). A – Male syntype from “N. Syrien”, habitus, dorsal view; B – ditto, head, dorsal view; C – Another syntype, habitus, dorsal view; D – Male syntype, aedeagus, lateral view; E – ditto, apical portion [not to scale].

Fig. 20. Anthicus globipennis quercicola J.R. Sahlberg, 1913 male syntype, habitus, dorsal view.

Fig. 55. Veteran tree­connected habitats of Microhoria in Turkey.A – Sampling plot near Antakya, Turkey; B–C – Sampling plots near Erdemli, Turkey [images courtesy Nicklas Jansson, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden].