Zonitoschema undetermined
Creators: name: Batelka, Jan
name: Bologna, Marco A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Meloidae
Zonitoschema
Zonitoschema undetermined

description: Key to Zonitoschema species of the Saharo-Sindian Region
Note. Species in square brackets are distributed in Eastern Africa but have been erroneously recorded from the Saharo-Sindian Region).
1 Head and pronotum reddish, elytra mostly ochre, with apical fourth and setae reddish. Head and pronotum surface shiny, pronotum punctures shallow and sparse. ................... .................................................................................................. Z. rubricolor Pic, 1924
– Head, pronotum and elytra completely yellow-brown, setae on whole elytra pale. Head and pronotum surface not so shiny, punctures deep and dense. ..................................... 2
2 Femora completely yellow. ............................................................... Z. arabica sp. nov.
– Femora black in apical fourth. ........................................................................................ 3
3 Antennomere I black. .............................................................. [Z. griseohirta Pic, 1914]
– Antennomere I yellow. ................................................................................................... 4
4 Antennomere II yellow. .................................................................................................. 5
– Antennomere II black. .................................................................................................... 8
5 Pronotum widest in middle and not neck-like narrowed in fore third, almost or as long as wide. .................................................................................................. Z. kaszabi sp. nov.
– Pronotum longer than wider, not evidently widened in middle. .................................... 6
6 Mouthparts as long as head capsule in lateral view. ......................................................... ..... Z. sp. cf. gibdoana partim [and Z. gibdoana (Kaszab, 1956), Z. paolii Pic, 1914]
– Mouthparts in lateral view distinctly shorter than head capsule. ................................... 7
7 Pronotum distinctly parallel-sided (Algerian Sahara). ...................................................... ............................................................................... Z. oculatissima Peyerimhoff, 1929
– Pronotum slightly widened in middle (eastern Sahel, Negev, Arabian Peninsula, S Iran). ................................................................................................ Z. iranica Kaszab, 1959
8 Male and female temples subparallel; parameres hooked posteriad. ................................ ......................................................................... Z. sp. cf. genicularis (Wellman, 1910)
– Male temples short and strongly converging on occiput; parameres slender and not hooked posteriad. ........................................................................................................................ 9
9 Elytral surface shiner, without obvious venation; temples in male less inclined and convergent posteriorly; elytra ca. 4.4 times as long as pronotum in both sexes; male genitalia as in Fig. 53. .................................................................... Z. pallidissima (Reitter, 1908)
– Elytral surface sub-opaque, with well visible venation; temples in male clearly inclined and convergent; elytra ca. 4.1 times as long as pronotum in male, 4.6 times in female; male genitalia as in Figs 58, 59. .................................................... Z. chourriba sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Batelka, Jan & Bologna, Marco A., 2014, A review of the Saharo-Sindian species of the genus Zonitoschema (Coleoptera: Meloidae), with description of new species from Tunisia, Yemen and Socotra Island, pp. 241-268 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 54 on pages 262-263, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5314482