A new enigmatic Lytta from Crimea, eastern Ukraine (Coleoptera: Meloidae)
Journal: Iris (Roma Tre University)
Year: 2010

Lytta zubovi sp. nov., a new species of Meloidae from Crimea (Ukraine) is described and figured.&#13;\nThe species is dimorphic, with the female, known only from a photograph, brachyelytrous&#13;\nand probably apterous. It is tentatively placed in the genus Lytta Fabricius, 1775, waiting for a revision of the tribe Lyttini. According to the present concept of Lytta, the new species is&#13;\nsimilar to the Holarctic subgenus Poreospasta Horn, 1868, never recorded from Europe, even&#13;\nthough it