Phyllodromica bey-bienkoi Maran 1957
Creators: name: Bohn, Horst
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Blattodea
Ectobiidae
Phyllodromica
Phyllodromica bey-Bienkoi

description: Phyllodromica bey-bienkoi Mařan, 1957: 481.
Phyllodromica (Luridiblatta) beybienkoi: Princis 1971: 1118.
Luridiblatta beybienkoi: Failla & Messina 1993: 101, figs. 7,8.
Phyllodromica ebneri Harz, 1975: 7, figs. 9,10; Failla & Messina 1993: fig. 9.
Diagnosis. From the very similar L. graeca in the male sex distinguished by the absence of an edge or fold reaching from the anterior border of the pit opening till near to the lateral border of T7 (Fig. 30A,B, 33B–D; compare with Fig. 33H–J), glandular tubules inconspicuous, terminal end not club-shaped.
Material studied. Type material. Holotype, ♂, Turkey, Karapinar, Toros, 1.VIII.1947, Exp. N. Mus.ČSR. (completely on three slides: Bo 346). (M. Praha).
Type material of P. ebneri, synonymised with L. beybienkoi by Failla & Messina 1993. Holotype, ♂, Palestine, Khudeira [= Hadera] b. Haifa, 14.-16.VII.1928, R.Ebner (completely on two slides: Bo 343). (M. Genéve); Paratypes, 1♂, 1♀, Libanon, Aïn Sofar, 22.VIII.1928, R.Ebner (slide: ♂, Bo 1223). (M. Wien).
Additional material. — Greece, Sporades. 2♂, Isola di Coo [Kos], Altopiano di Agrello, tra Antimachia e Chefalo, 13.IX.1934 (slide: 1♂, Bo 345). (Coll. Napoli). — TURKEY. Prov. Antalya: ex L: 4♂, 2♀, 8L, Çirali (S Kemer), 30 m, 13.- 15.V.2006, leg. B. & H.Bohn (slides: ♂, Ty 1/1; ♀, Ty 1/3); ex L: 1♀, 1L, 5 km NW Çirali (S Kemer), 230 m, 13.-15.V.2006, leg. B. & H.Bohn (Ty 2); ex L: 1♂, Kemer–Kumluca, 9 km NE Kumluca, 550 m, 13.V.2006, leg. B. & H.Bohn (slides: ♂, Ty 3/1); ex L: 2L, 13 km ESE Manavgat, 50 m, 16.V.2006, leg. B. & H.Bohn (Ty 13). (Coll. Bohn, ZSMC). — LEBANON. 1♂, Aïn Sofar, 23.VIII.1928, Ebner; 1♀, Bcharré, Zedernwald bei Bcharré, 1400-2050 m, 10.VIII.1928, R. Ebner; 1L, Bcharré, 1400 m, 5.- 11.VIII.[19]28, R. Ebner. (M. Wien).— 1♀, Libanon, Bicfain, 890 m, 1887, Tavoni [?] (M. Paris). — ISRAEL. ex L: 6♂, 6♀, 1L, Mt. Meron, 1120 m, 16.VII.2010, leg. H.Bohn (slide: ♂, Is 14/2); 1♂; exL: 17♂, 10♀, 2L, Hadera, Hadera Forest (SW Hadera), 10 m, 18.VII.2010, leg. H.Bohn (slides: ♂, Is 20/1; ♀, Is 20/2); 4♂, 1♀, Karmel Mountains, Keren Karmel, 450 m, 21.VII.2010, leg. H.Bohn (slide: ♂, Is 21/1); 8♂, 2♀, 1L, Yodfat (SE Sakhnin), 500 m, 18.VII.2010, leg. H.Bohn (slide: ♂, Is 22/1). (Coll. Bohn, ZSMC).— 1♂, #A 6506, SH.I.R.M. B.SH.G. [= Dganya Alef?], 1.IX.1943, leg. Y.Palmoni (slide: Bo 1249; Isr 1); 1♂, #A 7543, SH.I. R.M. B.SH.G. [= Dganya Alef?], in fallen leafs of Nerium oleander, 11.VIII.1944, leg. Y.Palmoni (slide: Bo 1269; Isr 1); 1L, #A 7467, Wadi Kurdani (near ‘Ako) [‘En Afeq], 29.VII.1944, leg. Z.Zudai (Isr 1); 1♀, Meron, 10.IX.1973, D.Furth (s. Is 14); 1L, #A 6344, Nahal Yarmuk, 8.VIII.1943, leg. Y.Palmoni (Isr. 10). (M. Tel Aviv). — 2L, Palaestina, Gebata [= Gvat], am Licht, II.1928, Bodenheimer (Isr 12). (M. Berlin). —1L, Paläst., Benyamina b. Haifa, 17.VII.[19]28, Ebner (Isr 9); 1L, Palästina, Karmel, 19.VII.[19]28, Ebner (Isr 8). (M. Wien).— SYRIA, Golan (under Israel administration): exL: 2♂, 3♀, 1L, Mt. Hermon, Ski Lift Station, 1650 m, 16.VII.2010, leg. H.Bohn (slides: ♂, Is 15/1,2); exL: 11♂, 4♀, 3L, Mt. Hermon, Majdal e-Shams– Ski Lift Station, Nakhal Guvta, 1400 m, 16.VII.2010, leg. H.Bohn (slides: ♂, Is 16/1,2); 1♂; exL: 11♂, 9♀, 2L, Odem Forest near Mas’ada, margin of Great Yuba, 1000 m, 17.VII.2010, leg. H.Bohn (slides: ♂, Is 18/1; ♀, Is 18/2,3). (Coll. Bohn, ZSMC).— 1♀, Har Hermon, 33.18,1N 35.46,2E, 1600 m, 20.VII.2009, L.Friedman (Isr 11); 1L, Neve-Ativ, 26.VII.1973, D.Furth (Isr 6). (M. Tel Aviv).
Description. Size. Male. Israel: Length of pronotum 1.82–1.98 (mean 1.91) mm, length of tegmina 4,1–4,86 (mean 4.69) mm. (N = 7/7). Turkey: Mean length of pronotum 1.7 mm, of tegmina 4.15 mm. (N = 5/5). T6. Distance between the anterior bristle stripes in % of the tergite breadth: range 18.8–26.9, mean 22.3. (N = 9).
Female tegmina. Apical border shallowly concave (Figs. 24I, 29H).
Male abdomen. Tergites. Fig. 29A–F. T 6. Highly specialised as described under characters of the genus and the beybienkoi -group (Figs. 2F–H, 6C). T7. Pit opening laterally drawn out to gutters (gu) almost reaching the lateral border of the tergite (Figs. 30A,B, 33B–D), anterior border of the opening (ab) laterally not continuing into an edge (ed) ending near the lateral border (comp. Fig. 33H–J); pit size up to size 4 (Fig. 33C); anterior pit wall (aw) with well-developed transversal folds (tf), posterior pit wall (pw) with a pair of wide shallow bulges (bu), glandular pouches long (gp), tubules short, inconspicuous, terminal end not club-shaped (tu, Figs. 29D, 30A,B). Genital hook. Claw (cl) as in L. cyprica and L. graeca with a large crest (cr) having two antlerlike processes (Fig. 29K,L).
Distribution. The species is distributed from Northern Israel over Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Southern Sporades (Kos). In Israel, the exact borderline between L. beybienkoi and the southernly adjacent L. quadrivittata is not known; the southernmost finding of the first species is at Hadera (Is 2 in Figs. 41, 42), the northernmost of the latter is in the Ben Shemen Forest southeast of Tel Aviv (Is 11). From the area in between only indeterminable larval specimens (from Tel Aviv) are known (Isr 5 and Isr7); they are preliminarily listed under the material of the latter species (with a question mark). No material is available from Palestine-Westbank.
description: Published as part of Bohn, Horst, 2022, Revision of the genus Luridiblatta (Blaberoidea, Ectobiidae, Ectobiinae), pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 5215 (1) on pages 20-21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5215.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7403385