Laena apfelbecki Schuster, 1915

Schawaller, Wolfgang, 2020, New taxonomic and faunistic data to species of the genus Laena Dejean from Turkey (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Lagriinae), with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 4861 (3), pp. 385-398 : 387

Laena apfelbecki Schuster, 1915

( Figs. 2 , 22, 36 )

Examined specimens: Greece, Nom. Évia, Dirfi above Plátania, Ag. Sofia, 850 m, 5.VI.1995, leg. Giachino & Vailati, 2 ex. SMNS .

Remarks: This species was listed in the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera ( Ando et al. (2008) from Greece and also from Turkey. The single Turkish record is based on Ferrer & Soldati (1999), considered herein as misidentification. Also Schuster (1916) did not know this species from Turkey. L. ganglbaueri Reitter, 1891 from northern Turkey is similar in external morphology, but the femora are without distinct teeth, and the apicale of the aedeagus is longer (compare Figs. 36, 38 ). In L. apfelbecki the male posterior tibia is distinctly swollen at interior margin ( Fig. 22 ).

Published localities: Parnass, Euboea (both Greece) ( Schuster 1916).

Figures

FIGURES 1–8. Dorsal view of Laena species from Turkey (and few from Greece and Bulgaria). 1 L. ganglbaueri, Istanbul, SMNS. 2 L. apfelbecki, Greece Évia, SMNS. 3 L. weisei, Greece Sapka, SMNS. 4 L. kraatzi, Sinop, SMNS. 5 L. osmanlis, Bursa, SMNS. 6 L. assingi sp. nov., paratype SMNS. 7 L. quadricollis, Trabzon, SMNS. 8 L. theana, Isparta, SMNS. Scale line: 3.0 mm.

FIGURES 22–46. Right posterior male tibia of Laena species from Turkey and Greece (Figs. 22–25), and apicale of aedeagus of Laena species from Turkey and few from Greece (Figs. 26–46). 22 L. apfelbecki, Greece Évia, SMNS. 23 L. bozdagica sp. nov., holotype Izmir, SMNS. 24 L. kraatzi, Greece Chios, SMNS. 25 L. lindbergi, Bingöl, SMNS. 26 L. deplanata, Izmir, SMNS. 27 L. ferruginea, Greece Corfu, SMNS. 28 L. ferruginea, Antalya, SMNS (det. Kaszab as L. liliputana syn. nov.). 29 L. wanensis, Nur Daglari, SMNS. 30 L. bozdagica sp. nov., paratype Izmir, SMNS. 31 L. merkli, Hakkari, CPE. 32 L. obscuricornis, Meselik, SMNS. 33 L. byzantina, Artvin, SMNS. 34 L. korbi, Konya, SMNS. 35 L. lindbergi, Bitlis, SMNS. 36 L. apfelbecki, Greece Evia, SMNS. 37 L. pici, Antakya, SMNS. 38 L. ganglbaueri, Alem Dagh, SMNS. 39 L. weisei, Greece Sapka, SMNS. 40 L. theana, Erfelek, SMNS. 41 L. assingi sp. nov., holotype Fethiye, CPE. 42 L. graeca, Bolu, SMNS. 43 L. osmanlis, Bursa, SMNS. 44 L. quadricollis, Rize, SMNS. 45 L. quadricollis, Krasnodar Maikop, SMNS. 46 L. kraatzi, Alem Dagh, SMNS. Scale line: 1 mm.