Mylabris (Mylabris) poggii Bologna 2009
Creators: name: Pan, Zhao
name: Bologna, Marco A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Mylabris
Mylabris poggii

description: Mylabris (Mylabris) poggii Bologna, 2009
Figs. 1 S, 22A–C
Mylabris (Mylabris) poggii Bologna, 2009: 353.
Zonabris nigriplantis, Zanon, 1922: 128.
Zonabris schreibersi, Falzoni, 1923: 87.
Zonabris quadripunctata, Dodero, 1925: 11.
Mylabris sinuata, Gridelli, 1930: 170; Zavattari, 1934: 463; Koch, 1939: 252; Bologna, 1979: 151. Zonabris quadripunctata, Boselli, 1930: 304.
Libycisca nigriplantis, Kuzin, 1954: 370.
Type locality. “Ain Mara” (Bologna, 2009). This locality (in Arabic Ayn Marrah) is in Cyrenaica, Libya.
Type specimens. Holotype male (MSNG), with the following labels: “R. U. Agrario [= Royal Agriculture Office], 7827, Ain Mara IV.1926 Geo C. Krüger” (white, printed); “ Zonabris 4 punctata ssp. nov. Gridellii ” (white, handwritten by M. Pic); “ Zonabris 4-punctata ssp. gridellii nov. Teste M. Pic” (white, printed and handwritten by R. Poggi); “ sinuata Illig. det. E. Gridelli” (white, printed and handwritten); “ Mylabris sinuata Illig. det E. Gridelli” (white, printed and handwritten by R. Poggi); “Museo civico di Genova” (green, printed); “ Holotypus Mylabris (s.str.) poggii n.sp. M. Bologna des. 2004” (red, printed and handwritten). The right metatarsi and male genitalia are glued on a distinct label; the distal aedeagal hook is slightly damaged.
Paratypes 2 males and 2 females (MSNG) and 1 male (MAB), with the same labels as the Holotype, but made by Pic and Gridelli, and with labels “7757” (MAB), “7829”, “7826”, “7832”, “7833” (MSGN); “ Paratypus Mylabris (s.str.) poggii n.sp. M. Bologna des. 2004”. The specimen “7833” has an additional label “ var. nob. Krugeri ”.
Paratype 1 female (MSNG): “Cirene [= Cyrene] 1928 Bolsi”; “ Mylabris sinuata det. E. Gridelli” (white, printed and handwritten by R. Poggi); “Museo civico di Genova” (green, printed); “ Paratypus Mylabris (s.str.)
poggii n.sp. M. Bologna des. 2004”. Paratype 1 male (MSNG), with the same labels, but “ VIII.1928, Anti leg.” and “ Paratypus Mylabris (s.str.) poggii n.sp. M. Bologna des. 2004”.
Description. Body length: 11.5–17.9 mm; setae only black, but mixed golden and black on legs; antennomeres uniformly black, III ca. 1.5 times as long as IV, XI less than twice as long as wide; pronotum without fore transverse depression; elytral black pattern as in Fig. 22 A, with two series of two spots inversely oblique, and an apical narrow semilunar fascia, extended laterally on both sides and forming a subrounded extension on the inner margin; mesosternum as Fig. 22 B, posterior apex lighter; male gonoforceps relatively wide in lateral view (Fig. 22 C); distal hook of aedeagus close to apex, and smaller than proximal one (Fig. 22 C).
Taxonomic remarks. Gridelli (1930) was compared this species to M. schreibersi Reiche 1866, which also has a very narrow black apical border. However, the aedeagal hooks’ structure, e.g. the position of distal hooks, is similar to other Maghrebian species, specifically M. guerini Chevrolat 1840 and M. tricincta Chevrolat 1840. Both these species have highly variable elytral patterns, including forms with four spots as in M. poggii, but with a wider black fascia at apex, gonoforceps slender and aedeagal hooks different in shape (Pardo Alcaide, 1954; Bologna, 1991a).
Distribution. E Libya (northern Cyrenaica).
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 36-37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3806.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286141