Научная статья на тему 'A new species of the genus Neoplagionotus Kasatkin, 2005 from Syria (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Clytini)'

A new species of the genus Neoplagionotus Kasatkin, 2005 from Syria (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Clytini) Текст научной статьи по специальности «Биологические науки»

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Аннотация научной статьи по биологическим наукам, автор научной работы — Lazarev M.A.

A new species Neoplagionotus karmelicola sp. n. close to: N. scalaris (Brullé, 1832), N. bobelayei (Brullé, 1832) and N. bednariki Lazarev, 2022 is described from Syria. Dorsal views of holotype and paratype are provided.

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Текст научной работы на тему «A new species of the genus Neoplagionotus Kasatkin, 2005 from Syria (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Clytini)»

http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:20157FA3-D35A-4A52-B0AF-80DCBB054516

DOI: 10.24412/2226-0773-2022-11-4-518-521

EDN: KNMZJM

A new species of the genus Neoplagionotus Kasatkin, 2005 from Syria (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, Clytini)

M.A. Lazarev

Free Economic Society of Russia, Department of Scientifics Conferences and

All-Russian Projects

Tverskaya str., 22a, Moscow 125009 Russia

e-mail: cerambycidae@bk.ru, humanityspace@gmail.com

Key words: Coleoptera, Cerambycidae, longhorned beetles, taxonomy, new taxon, Palaearctic region.

Abstract: A new species Neoplagionotus karmelicola sp. n. close to: N. scalaris (Brullé, 1832), N. bobelayei (Brullé, 1832) and N. bednariki Lazarev, 2022 is described from Syria. Dorsal views of holotype and paratype are provided.

Introduction

According to the last Palaearctic Cerambycidae Catalogue (Danilevsky, 2020), the genus Neoplagionotus Kasatkin, 2005 included 3 species: N. scalaris (Brullé, 1832), N. bobelayei (Brullé, 1832) and N. andreui (Fuente, 1908). Recently a fourth one was described - N. bednariki Lazarev, 2022.

Now new species from Syria is proposed.

Materials and methods

Both photographs were taken with Canon PowerShot G10 digital camera equipped with Cannon Zoom lens 5X IS 6.1-30.5 mm 1:2.8-4.5 and microscope AmScope SM745NTP. The illustrations were edited with Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and Helicon Focus 3.20.

Acronyms of collections:

MD - collection of M.L. Danilevsky (Moscow, Russia).

ZMM - collection of Zoological Museum of Moscow University.

Taxonomy

Neoplagionotus karmelicola sp. n.

Figs 1-2

Type locality. Israel, Karmel Mt., Haifa environs.

Description. Two males only are known: holotype, body length: 16.0 mm, body width: 6.0 mm; paratype (in bad condition), body length: 12.9 mm, body width: 5.0 mm.

Integument totally black with numerous areas covered by short recumbent yellow pubescence.

Head transverse, widest at eye level, with dense recumbent yellow pubescence between eyes; frons strongly transverse about as wide, as long, with dense yellow pubescence; occiput and genae also with dense yellow pubescence; eyes very big, about as wide as interantennal space, nearly touching mandibulae bases, strongly emarginated, so genae very narrow; maxillary and labial palpi reddish with elongated apical joints.

Antennae red, surpassing second transverse elytral band, slightly serrate from 6th to 10th joints; scapus wide, about as wide as 7th joint and about 2.0 times longer than wide; 1st joint a little longer than 3rd and much longer than 4th; pedicellum about as long as wide.

Prothorax subglobulose, 1.2 times wider at middle than long, more tapering anteriorly; pronotum regularly convex, with very small, dense punctation; two wide transverse yellow setae bands present; anterior band narrowed at middle, second band moved backwards and evenly curved; prosternum with sparse pubescence.

Elytra about 2.2 times longer than basal width; strongly converging posteriorly, rounded apically; 5 wide transverse elytral bands are well developed; basal band is represented by 2 big oval round spots with yellow scutellum in between; posthumeral band also wide, strongly angulated and protruding anteriorly along suture; lateral humeral spot hardly reaching 2nd elytral band; middle band rather wide, distinctly extends backwards at middle; preapical bands are represented by 2 big round spots; apical band oval, totally covering elytral apices; epipleurae with yellow pubescence to about elytral middle.

Legs reddish, without erect setae, femora slightly widened, not clavate.

Thoracic metasternum with scattered pubescence anteriorly, becoming denser posteriorly; metepisternum with dense yellow pubescence.

All visible abdominal sternites densely pubescent with narrow glabrous anterior bands; last abdominal sternites and tergites rounded.

Type material. Holotype (Fig. 1), male with three labels: 1) “Syria / Haifa / Reitter”; 2) [red] “Holotype / Neoplagionotus / KARMELICOLA sp. n. / M. Lazarev det. 2022”, 3) [pink] ”Зоомузей МГУ (Москва, Россия) / № ZMMU Col 03233 / Zool. Mus. Mosq. Univ. / (Mosquae, ROSSIA) / ex coll. N. N. Plavilstshikov” - ZMM; Paratype (Fig. 2), male with two labels: 1) “Сирия / Латакия / 10/V 1964”, 2) “Paratype / Neoplagionotus / KARMELICOLA sp. n. / M. Lazarev det. 2022” - MD.

Distribution. The new species is known from Israel and Syria.

Differential diagnosis. The new taxon is externally very similar to N. scalaris and N. bednariki, but in N. scalaris basal elytral band is usually widely interrupted by scutellum and consists of a pair of round spots; third (central) elytral band is about straight (protruding backwards along suture in the new species); forth elytral band is in form of transverse bar not interrupted at suture (or hardly interrupted), while in N. karmelicola sp. n. it is in form of a pair of round spots; abdominal sternites in N. scalaris and in N. bednariki, widely glabrous anteriorly; frons and vertex in N. scalaris and in N. bednariki are nearly glabrous; legs with rather dark femora.

Etymology. The new species is named after its type locality - Mt. Karmel, where Haifa-city is situated.

Acknowledgments. I am very grateful to A.A. Gusakov (Zoological Museum of Moscow State University, Russia) who provided me with the holotype for study. My sincere gratitude to M.L. Danilevsky (A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia), who gave me his paratype (donated to him by V.Yu. Gazanchidis) for study.

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Brullé G.A. 1832. IVe Classe. Insectes. Pp. 1-288. In: Bory de Saint-Vincent J.B.G.M.: Expédition scientifique de Morée. Section des sciences physiques. Tome III. - I. re Partie. Zoologie. Deuxième Section. – Des animaux articulés. Paris, Strasburg: F. L. Levrault, [1] + 400 + [2 (errata)] pp., pls 27-53 [note: pp. 289-400 issued in 1833; plates in 1832-1836].

Danilevsky M.L. 2020. taxa from West Europe, and North Africa to countries of former Soviet Union, and Mongolia. In: Danilevsky M. L. (ed.). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, vol. 6 (1), Chrysomeloidea I (Vesperidae, Disteniidae, Cerambycidae). Revised and updated edition. Leiden / Boston: Brill, i-xxii, 1-712. DOI: 10.1163/9789004440333

Fuente J.M. de la. 1908. Variedad nueva de Plagionotus scalaris Brull. v. andrevi var. n. - Boletín de la Real Sociedad Aragonesa de Ciencias Naturales. 7: 21-22.

Kasatkin D.G. 2005. About a system of the genus Plagionotus sensu lato (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Clytini). - Caucasian Entomological Bulletin. 1: 49-54. DOI: 10.23885/1814-3326-2005-1-1-49-54

Lazarev M.A. 2022. A new species of the genus Neoplagionotus Kasatkin, 2005 from Western Anatolia, Turkey (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). - Zootaxa. 5194 (3): 447-450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5194.3.9

Figs 1-2. Neoplagionotus karmelicola sp. n.: 1 - Holotype, male; 2 - Paratype, male.

Received: 01.10.2022

Accepted: 10.12.2022

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