Bruchidius raddianae Anton & Delobel 2003
Creators: name: Delobel, Alex
name: Ru, Bruno Le
name: Genson, Gwenaëlle
name: Musyoka, Boaz K.
name: Kergoat, Gael J.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Chrysomelidae
Bruchidius
Bruchidius raddianae

description: Bruchidius raddianae Anton & Delobel, 2003
Bruchidius sahelicus Decelle, 1979 (nomen nudum) Bruchidius raddianae Anton & Delobel, 2003:178
Material examined. Egypt: 1♂, 2♀, Ras Mohamed, 25.iv.2001, ex Vachellia tortilis raddiana [1♀ 02301] (G. Fédière) [CBAD, CBGP]; 2♂, Aïn Sukna, 15.vi.2001, ex V. t. raddiana [2♂ 0 3701, 00503] (G. Fédière) [CBAD]; 3 ♂, 3♀, Karhur Tall, 7.ii.2003, ex V. ehrenbergiana [1♀ 02203] (G. Fédière) [CBAD]; 1♂, 1♀, Assuan, 3.vii.2002, ex V. tortilis (G. Fédière) [CBAD]. Iran: 1♂, Bushehr, ex V. farnesiana [1♂ 0 0 611, specimen GK335 used for DNA extraction] (L. Abbaszadeh) [CBGP]; 1♂, 1♀, Bushehr, 30.v.2012, ex Hydnocarpus sp. [1♂ 05713] (N. Farrar) [CBAD]. Israel: 1♂, Negev, vi.1996, ex V. t. raddiana [specimen Bd11 used for DNA extraction] (D. Ward) [CBGP]; 1♂, 1♀, Wadi Bitaron, vi.1998, ex V. t. raddiana (K. Or.) [CBAD]; 5♂, 5♀, Wadi Saif, vii.1998, ex V. t. raddiana, (K. Or.) [CBAD]. Morocco: 1♀, Vallée du Agdz, 24.v.2003 (A. Jaeger) [CBAD]. Senegal: 4♂, 2♀, Khatali, 29.iv.1995, ex V. t. raddiana [4♂ 11295, 12602, 12702, 12802, 2♀ 11695, 12695] (A. & H. Delobel) [CBAD]; Dahra, v.1998, ex V. t. raddiana [2♀ 0 2700, 02800] (A. & H. Delobel) [CBAD]; 1♂, 1♀, Boké Namadi, 30.i.1999, ex V. t. raddiana [specimen R11 used for DNA extraction] (M. Sembène) [CBGP]. United Arab Republic: 1♂, Wadi Safad, 31.i.–21.ii.2006, light trap [1♂ 05308] (A. Van Harten) [CBAD]; 1♂, 1♀, Wadi Maidaq, 21.xii.2005 – 2.iii.2006, light trap (A. Van Harten) [CBAD]; 2♀, same data, 14–25.i.2006 (A. Van Harten) [CBAD]; 1♂, 2♀, Al-Ajban, 22.x.–9.xi.2005, Malaise trap (A. Van Harten) [CBAD]; 1♂, 1♀, 27.v.–26.vi.2006, light trap (A. Van Harten) [CBAD]; 1♂, 1♀, Khor-Al-Kwair, 24.iv.–2.v.2007, light trap (A. Van Harten) [CBAD]; 1♂, Hatta, 4.–11.iv.2006, light trap (A. Van Harten) [CBAD]; 1♂, Mahafiz, 19–26.iv.2006, water trap (A. Van Harten) [CBAD]. Other material as listed in Anton & Delobel (2003), including specimens from Algeria, Burkina- Faso, India, Jordan, Lybia, Mali, Niger, Oman, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Tunisia.
A small to medium-sized (1.4–2.7 mm) species, from light yellowish to checkered with blackish and whitish spots, elytra with double-toothed protuberance at base of striae 3–4, and a sharp isolated tooth at stria 2. Other distinctive morphological traits: in male, a large circular spot of short erect setae in basal angle of first ventrite; last visible tergite of female with pair of small foveae with shiny margin.
Genitalia [see Figs. 25–28, p. 189 in Anton & Delobel 2003]: Internal sac entirely lined with small broad or slim based spines, and 3–6 large denticles with base as long as point; lateral lobes separated to about 80% their length; tegminal strut with very small carina. In female, vagina long, no dorsal sclerite at entrance of bursa copulatrix.
Biology. Reared from seeds of Vachellia farnesiana, V. flava, V. gerrardii negevensis (Zohary) Ragup. et al., V. hockii, V. nilotica tomentosa, V. seyal, V. tortilis, V. tortilis raddiana, and an unidentified species of Hydnocarpus (Achariaceae). Dichrostachys cinerea, Senegalia senegal and V. sieberiana are other possible hosts.
Distribution. Algeria, Burkina Faso, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen (Anton & Delobel 2003).
description: Published as part of Delobel, Alex, Ru, Bruno Le, Genson, Gwenaëlle, Musyoka, Boaz K. & Kergoat, Gael J., 2015, Molecular phylogenetics, systematics and host-plant associations of the Bruchidius albosparsus (Fåhraeus) species group (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Bruchinae) with the description of four new species, pp. 451-482 in Zootaxa 3931 (4) on pages 470-472, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/244566