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Hycleus nigriplantis

Description

Hycleus nigriplantis (Klug, 1845)

Distribution. Widely distributed through the Sahel from Senegal to Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, in southern Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen. It was cited also from Egypt, but probably this record refers to Sinai.

New records. Saudi Arabia: Arabia, 2 exx. (MNHN); Lodar, 800 m, 16.v.1967, K. Guichardt coll. 5 exx. (BMNH).

Yemen: Al Hudaydah to Sana’a, 20.ix.1962, G. Popov coll. 1 ex. (BMNH). 10 Km S of Beit el Faqi, 14°3’’N 43°17’E, 19.vi.1951, 1 ex. (BMNH).

Remarks. As evidenced by Pardo Alcaide (1958, as Gorrizia) and Bologna (1978, as Coryna), this species of the Mesoscutatus - type lineage, belongs to the Palaeotropical group of H. pallipes (Olivier, 1811), which is characterized by the hind external spur of metatibia enlarged, similarly to the mylabrine genus Croscherichia, to which was referred by Kaszab (1983). Within this group, H. nigriplantis seems to be related to two Indian species.

Notes

Published as part of Bologna, Marco A. & Turco, Federica, 2007, The Meloidae (Coleoptera) of the United Arab Emirates with an updated Arabian checklist, pp. 1-33 in Zootaxa 1625 (1) on page 26, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1625.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5103300

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH , MNHN, BMNH
Event date
1951-06-19 , 1962-09-20 , 1967-05-16
Family
Meloidae
Genus
Hycleus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Klug
Species
nigriplantis
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1951-06-19 , 1962-09-20 , 1967-05-16
Taxonomic concept label
Hycleus nigriplantis (Klug, 1845) sec. Bologna & Turco, 2007

References

  • Klug, J. C. F. (1845) Symbolae physicae seu icones et dscriptiones Insectorum que ex itinere per Africam borealem et Asiam occidentalem Fridericii Guilelmi Hemprich et Christiani Godofredi Ehrenberg medicinae et chirurgiae doctorum studio nova autillustrate redierunt. Insecta. Reumen, Berolini, 24 pp, 2 pls.
  • Pardo Alcaide, A. (1958) Etudes sur les Meloidae (Col.). IX. Observations sur quelques Mylabris (s. l.) des regions ethiopienne et orientale. Bulletin de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, 35 (13), 1 - 39.
  • Bologna, M. A. (1978) Alcuni Meloidi dell'Africa orientale e meridionale e descrizione di una specie nuova (Coleoptera, Meloidae). Quaderni dell'Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, 243 (1), 137 - 189.
  • Kaszab, Z. (1983) Insects of Saudi Arabia. Coleoptera: Fam. Meloidae - A synopsis of the Arabian Meloidae. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 5, 144 - 204.