Canthophorus wagneri subsp. hyrcanicus Gapon 2018, n. ssp.
Creators: name: Gapon, Dmitry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cydnidae
Canthophorus
Canthophorus wagneri
Canthophorus wagneri hyrcanicus

description: Canthophorus wagneri hyrcanicus n. ssp. (Figures 6 R, 6 S, 7 J)
Type material
Holotype: Turkmenistan, Balkan velayat, Magtymguly etrap, top of Syunt Mt. [38°31 ʹ 16.1 ʺ N 56°22 ʹ 10.1 ʺ E], 3. V.1974 (G. Medvedev), J (ZISP).
Paratypes: Turkmenistan: Balkan velayat, Magtymguly etrap: “Khazly [?]” [ravine Khozly at Sumbar Riv. б 38°12 ʹ 17.5 ʺ N 57°05 ʹ 27.8 ʺ E], 13.VII.1973 [collector unknown], 1J (ZISP); top of Syunt Mt., 3. V.1974 (G. Medvedev), 1♀ (ZISP); Kopet Dag Mt. Range, “Kara-kala” [Garrygala] env., 28.VII.1974 (Aksent’ ev), 1♀ (ZMUM); Ahal velayat, Baharly etrap, gorge urochishche Ipay-Kala [38°20 ʹ 20.1 ʺ N 57° 08 ʹ 09.9 ʺ E], 19.VII.1973 (collector unknown), 1J (ZISP).
Diagnosis
Ventral lobe of conjunctiva in ventral view slightly widening distally, its apex evenly rounded, with small notch in middle of apical margin; ventral wall of lobe in apical half with narrow desclerotised groove (Figure 6 R); dorsal wall of lobe entirely membranous, with barely noticeable carina and very small impressions at its sides (Figure 6 S). Spicule at conjunctival dorsolateral lobes (Figure 7 J) rather widely curved at base, long, protruding beyond apex of denticle on spicule basal plate slightly less than half of length; beyond middle, spicule curved strongly and sharply; extreme apex of spicule not curved, obliquely truncated. Denticle on anterior end of spicule basal plate longer than in nominotypical subspecies, more or less spear-shaped at apex, directed dorsolaterad and anteriad.
Measurements
Body 6.10–7.65 in length, 3.75–4.85 in width; pronotum 3.35–4.25 in width; head 1.47–1.71 in width; ocular index 3.41–3.68; length of antennal segments I–V: 0.32–0.39: 0.50–0.63: 0.57–0.70: 0.78–0.92: 0.87–0.98.
Remarks
Asanova (1964) distinguished one Turkmenian male from the other specimens of C. wagneri examined in her work by the shape of “the hook of penal appendage”, but she did not decide on an attribution of a taxonomic status to this “deviation” for want of material. The specimen examined by her (“Kara-Kala, Kopet-Dag, 26. V.1935 (Ushatinskaya), 1J”) is currently absent in the ZISP collection, but its spicule figured in Asanova’ s paper completely corresponds to the diagnosis of my new subspecies.
Etymology
The subspecific epithet is derived from the Ancient Greek Ὑρκανία, the name of a satrapy in the Achaemenid Empire at the south-east coast of the Caspian Sea in the territory of present-day Northern Iran and the extreme south-west of Turkmenistan that encloses the type locality of the subspecies.
Distribution
Figure 15. South-Western Turkmenistan (Western Kopet Dag).
description: Published as part of Gapon, Dmitry A., 2018, Morphology of male and female terminalia and taxonomic revision of the burrower bugs genus Canthophorus (Heteroptera: Cydnidae), pp. 183-228 in Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N. S.) (N. S.) 54 (3) on pages 34-35, DOI: 10.1080/00379271.2018.1467788, http://zenodo.org/record/14927017