Mylabris (Mylabris) madoni Marseul 1883
Creators: name: Pan, Zhao
name: Bologna, Marco A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mylabris
Mylabris madoni

description: Mylabris (Mylabris) madoni Marseul, 1883
Figs. 1 O, 18A–G
Mylabris madoni Marseul, 1883: 178; Beauregard, 1890: 531; Sumakov, 1915: 44; 1930: 76; Borchmann, 1917: 41; Mader, 1927: 862; Bologna & Marangoni, 1990: 354.
Zonabris madoni, Escherich, 1899: 91.
Zonabris madoni var. lividiana Pic, 1911: 178.
Mylabris madoni var. lividiana, Borchmann, 1917: 41.
Mylabris madoni ab. lividiana, Mader, 1927: 862; Sumakov, 1930: 76.
Mylabris (Mylabris) madoni, Kuzin, 1954: 355; Bologna, 2008: 397.
Type locality. “ Chypre ” (Marseul, 1883).
Type specimens. Lectotype male (MNHN), with the following labels: “ Chypre, coll. de Marseul 2842-90 ” (white, rectangular, printed); “ Mylabris Madoni Mars Type ” (white, rectangular, handwritten by S. de Marseul); “Escherich vid. 1899” (white, rectangular, handwritten by K. Escherich); “Museum Paris coll. De Marseul 1890” (white, rectangular, printed); “ Lectotypus Mylabris madoni Marseul, M. Bologna des. 1987” (red, rectangular, handwritten by M. A. Bologna); “ Mylabris (s.str.) madoni Marseul, M. Bologna det. 1987” (white, rectangular, handwritten by M. A. Bologna).
Paralectotype, 1 male (MNHN), with the following labels: “ Mylabris Madoni, Chypre, Ms. 83” (yellow, round); Museum Paris coll. De Marseul 2842-1890 (white, printed); “Museum Paris coll. De Marseul 1890” (white, rectangular, printed); “ Paralectotypus Mylabris madoni Marseul, M. Bologna des. 1987” (red, rectangular, handwritten by M. A. Bologna); “ Mylabris (s.str.) madoni Marseul, M. Bologna det. 1987” (white, rectangular, handwritten by M. A. Bologna).
We examined at MNHN the type of the unvalid form lividiana, which was clearly described as an aberration, and one specimen with the identification label “ Mylabris trarmenias ”, which represents a nomen in litteris.
Description. Body length: 11–15.5 mm; setation of head, pronotum, and ventral side mixed yellow and black, that of elytra almost completely black; antennomeres reddish, VIII–XI almost brown-orange, antennomere III less than 1.5 times as long as IV, apical antennomeres only slightly widened, XI ca. twice as long as wide (Fig. 18 A); pronotum without fore transverse depression; elytral black pattern (Fig. 18 B) without apical fascia, with two subequal sub-rounded spots on basal third, one middle greatly sinuous narrow fascia and one subapical bisinuate wider fascia; mesosternum as in Fig. 18 C; male gonoforceps slender in lateral view (Fig. 18 E), fused ventrally in basal half (Fig. 18 D); distal hook of aedeagus relatively close to apex, proximal hook relatively far from the distal one (Fig. 18 F).
Taxonomic remarks. Probably related to M. olivieri because of male genitalia structure, reddish apical antennomeres, and elytral black pattern.
Distribution. Endemic to Cyprus Island.
description: Published as part of Pan, Zhao & Bologna, Marco A., 2014, Taxonomy, Bionomics and Faunistics of the Nominate Subgenus of Mylabris Fabricius, 1775, with the description of five new species (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Mylabrini), pp. 1-78 in Zootaxa 3806 (1) on pages 31-32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3806.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286141