Cerocoma (Meloides) rapillyi Pardo Alcaide 1977
Creators: name: Turco, Federica
name: Bologna, Marco A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Meloidae
Cerocoma
Cerocoma rapillyi

description: Cerocoma (Meloides) rapillyi Pardo Alcaide, 1977   
Figs 2Y, 3Y, 4Y, 6Y, 7B  
 Cerocoma rapillyi Pardo Alcaide, 1977: 61.   
 Cerocoma (Meloides) rapillyi, Dvořák, 1990: 9.   
 Type locality. “ Iran, Magsud-beik” (Pardo Alcaide 1977).   
 Type specimens. 13 paratypes have been examined:   
 6 paratypes, 3 ♀♀ and 3 ♂♂: PARATIPO (red, black printed) // Cerocoma ♂ / rapillyi Pardo / Pardo Alcaide det. 1974 (red, printed and handwritten) // IRAN Magsud-Beik / 20. V.1969 / M. Rapillyi leg. (white, handwritten) (MNHN). The second label is “ Cerocoma ♀ ” for the three females. Several specimens lack part of the legs and one female lacks left antenna.   
 1 paratype ♀: IRAN Shah / Reza 20. V.69 / M. Rapillyi réc. (white, handwritten) // PARATIPO (red, black printed) // Cerocoma ♀ / rapillyi Pardo / Pardo Alcaide det. 1974 (red, printed and handwritten) (MNHN).   
 3 ♂♂ paratypes pinned together: Iran Maqsud beik / 29. V.1969 / M. Rapilly leg. (white, handwritten) // coll. Pardo Alcaide (yellow, printed) // PARATYPUS / A. Pardo (red, printed) // Cerocoma / rapillyi Pardo (pink, handwritten) (MULL). Protarsomeres of two specimens are damaged.   
 3 ♂♂ paratypes pinned together: Maqsud beik / 20. V.67 (white, handwritten; 3 identical labels repeated) // Iran / M. Rapilly leg. (white, handwritten) // coll. Pardo Alcaide (yellow, printed) // PARATYPUS / A. Pardo (red, printed) // Cerocoma / rapillyi Pardo (pink, handwritten) (MULL). One male lacks the head and another specimen lacks left protarsomeres.   
 Description. Male. Body metallic dark green with short and sparse yellowish setae; frons with a central orange spot; abdomen orange, except for last two segments, metallic green; legs, antennae and mouthparts, including maxillary palpi, yellow-orange.   
Head transverse with slightly protruding eyes. Maxillary palpi modified with palpomere II wide, flattened and curved; III very swollen and rounded on the external side; IV with narrow base and then very distinctly widened to apex, especially on the internal edge (Fig. 3Y). Antennae modified with antennomere I bearing a narrow, long and apically curved expansion on the external side and dorsal keel wide, high and apically curved; III–VI very modified and ventrally expanded; III, in dorsal view, slightly sinuate on the external side and with a wide and shallow incision on the internal side and a short and broad appendix on the internal apex (Fig. 7B); V with short setae on distal face of ventral laminar expansion; VI with a very long, narrow and curved expansion and a tuft of long and erect setae on ventral side; IX transverse and apically rounded (Fig. 2Y).  
Protibial keel extended to proximal 2/3 of the length of tibia, with dorsal edge straight and anterior edge bearing an angular bulge, visible in lateral view (Fig. 4Y). Protarsomeres slightly enlarged; II with an obvious dorsal bulge.  
Gonostyli, in lateral view, straight, with apical lobes directed forward; apical lobes, in dorsal view, swollen and slightly diverging. Apex of aedeagus slightly pointed; aedeagal hooks subequal in size (the subapical only slightly larger). Sclerotised hooks of endophallus equal in size, the apical pointing outwards and the subapical backwards (Fig. 6Y).  
Female. Not modified. Refer to key for diagnostic characters.  
 Taxonomy. For its relationships, see discussion on C. marginiventris.   
 Distribution. Iraq, Iran. Erroneously recorded from Bulgaria.
description: Published as part of Turco, Federica & Bologna, Marco A., 2011, Systematic revision of the genus Cerocoma Geoffroy, 1762 (Coleoptera: Meloidae: Cerocomini) 2853, pp. 1-71 in Zootaxa 2853 (1) on pages 42-43, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2853.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5286891