Cycloryx bembex ( Benson, 1859 )

Páll-Gergely, Barna, Gojšina, Vukašin & Aravind, Neelavar Ananthram, 2025, A review of Chamalycaeus, Cycloryx and Dicharax species of the Himalaya and Myanmar and seven new species of Alycaeinae from the Blue Mountain, Mizoram, India (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda, Cyclophoridae), European Journal of Taxonomy 1029, pp. 1-158 : 30-32

Cycloryx bembex ( Benson, 1859)

Fig. 19A–H

Alycaeus bembex Benson, 1859: 178–179 .

Alycaeus bembex – Sowerby 1877: pl. 5, species 42. — Godwin-Austen 1884: pl. 51 fig. 5.

Alycaeus ( Alycaeus) bembex – Kobelt 1902: 342.

Alycaeus ( Cycloryx) bembex – Godwin-Austen 1914: 346–347, pl. 147 figs 1, 1a. — Gude 1921: 275– 276.

Cycloryx bembex – Ramakrishna et al. 2010: 70.

Pincerna bembex – Páll-Gergely et al. 2020: 170 .

Diagnosis

This species can be distinguished from others due to the practically smooth, conical shell, and the thin peristome.

Type material examined

INDIA • 1 syntype ( Fig. 19A–D); UMZC I.102730 • 6 possible syntypes (one of them separated in a different vial and marked with a “T”); Darjiling; NHMUK 1906.4 .4.44 ( Fig. 19E–H). The latter lot was not considered type by Preece et al. (2022) .

Type locality

“in valle Rungun”.