Oxythyrea pantherina
Creators: name: Vondráček, Dominik
name: Hadjiconstantis, Michael
name: Šípek, Petr
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Scarabaeidae
Oxythyrea
Oxythyrea pantherina

description: Oxythyrea pantherina (Gory & Percheron, 1833)
(Figs. 3G; 4G, P; 5G, P; 6G; 8 A, G; 9D, J; 10G, P; 11G; 12G)
Reference to immature stages. Šípek (2005): pp. 84–87, pls. 35–38.
Material studied. 15 L3 reared ex adults collected at: Tunisia, Djerba, Djerba island, 9 km NE of Houmt Souk, Rass Rmel sand spit, ca 1 m, N°33.883, E°10.933, 25.–26.iii.2014, O. Hillert, D. Král, P. Šípek, D. Vondráček lgt.; 11 L3 reared ex adults collected at: Morroco, NE of Oualidia, Lamjidate env., Atlantic coast, ca 1 m, N°32.833, W8.900, 24.iii.2013, R. Dunda, O. Hillert, D. Král, J. Schneider, D. Vondráček, J. Vondráček lgt.; 6 L3 reared ex adults collected at: Tunisia, Nefta, N°33.850, E°7.867, 28.–29.iii.2006, J. Batelka, J. Straka lgt.; 10 L3 reared ex adults collected at: Tunisia, Carthago, N°36.867, E°10.333, v.2003, J. Hotový lgt.; 24 L3 reared ex adults collected at: Morocco, Sidi Ifni, ca N°36.867, W°10.333, iv.2008, D. Král lgt.
Body length 16–26 mm. Cranium: width 2.55–3.4 mm, height 1.37–1.91 mm. Cranium yellowish to yellowishbrown, smooth; semi-circular in shape, dorsally flattened (length of dorsal straight portion of cranial margin slightly between one third and on half of maximum width of cranium). Chaetotaxy as in Table 1. Epipharynx: Zygum with 15–20 stout conical setae and 9–11 similarly shaped setae at its proximal base. Chaetoparia with 56– 79 and 43–59 setae on right and left side respectively. Acanthoparia with 5–7 ovate setae, 1 or 2 distal setae elongated. Stridulatory area of mandibles with 12–17 transverse ridges, ridges in the distal ¾ of stridulatory area broad (distance between two ridges about ⅓ of length of ridge), ridges of the proximal ⅓ narrow. Apical scissorial tooth of left mandible falcate and about two to three times larger than subapical tooth. Transverse proximal row of setae and sensilla on ligula composed of approximately 10–14 campaniform sensilla and stout lanceolate setae. Thoracic legs with stout (spine-like) or long hair-like setae, the hair-like setae are always well developed, never slender. Respiratory plate of spiracle with 12–15 holes across diameter. Raster monostichous, composed of single horseshoe-like row of 27–37 pali, septula broadly ovate, opened posteriorly, almost as wide as long. Tegillar setae about size of pali or three times as long, longer setae present as well (in some specimens almost half of tegillar setae are long, in other longer setae may be absent completely). Tegilla fused, more or less sparsely setose, average distance between two setae about one to two times of length of palus. Dorsal parts of last abdominal segment sparsely setose, covered with hammate setae, subequal in length to pali or slightly longer.
description: Published as part of Vondráček, Dominik, Hadjiconstantis, Michael & Šípek, Petr, 2018, Immature stages of the genus Oxythyrea (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae) with a key to third instar larvae, and notes on the biology of the genus, pp. 401-434 in Zootaxa 4486 (4) on page 420, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4486.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1442168