Description of a new species of Meloe Linnaeus, 1758, subgenus Eurymeloe Reitter, 1911 (Coleoptera, Meloidae), from northern Morocco
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https://doi.org/10.3989/graellsia.2009.v65.i2.144Keywords:
Taxonomy, Morphology, Coleoptera, Meloidae, Meloe, Africa, Morocco, FaunisticsAbstract
We describe a new species of Meloe (Coleoptera: Meloidae), subgenus Eurymeloe, included in the M. rugosus species group, related to species of the M. murinus subgroup. The specimens of the new species studied were found along the western Rif mountain chain (Talassemtane National Park) in northwestern Morocco, and were located in hiperhumid montane forest habitats. The new species is characterized by having: a dull black coloration with greyish hue; a very short, curved, and not dense, yellow-whitish pilosity, which does not form tufts; a subrectangular transverse pronotum with a marked median grove and two longitudinal lateral depressions; head and pronotum punctures well impressed and subconfluent; elytra sligtly rugose; tarsomeres with slightly developed ventral pads; aedeagus with curved parameres, laterally depressed, apically pointed, with the distal ventral hook of median lobe close to apex. The new taxon es phenetically similar to M. nanus, M. baudueri and M. flavicomus, but distinguished from all of them by the mentioned morphological external and male genitalia characters. The distribution of the new species, only known from its type locality, overlaps those of M. murinus, M. nanus and possibly M. baudueri, but so far it has not been found in strict sympatry with any of them. The habitat type inhabited by the new species, mountain areas with mixed forests of Pinus pinaster hamiltonii var. maghrebiana, P. nigra mauritanica and Abies maroccana (endemic taxa of the limestone northwestern Rif mountain chain), contrasts with other habitat types recorded for species of the M. (E). murinus species subgroup of the subgenus Eurymeloe.
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2009-12-30
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Ruiz JL, García-París M. Description of a new species of Meloe Linnaeus, 1758, subgenus Eurymeloe Reitter, 1911 (Coleoptera, Meloidae), from northern Morocco. Graellsia [Internet]. 2009Dec.30 [cited 2024Jul.23];65(2):91-109. Available from: https://graellsia.revistas.csic.es/index.php/graellsia/article/view/144
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