Microdera globulicollis Ménétriés, 1849

Bekchanov, Norbek Kh., Nabozhenko, Maxim V., Bekchanov, Khudaybergan U. & Bekchanova, Mokhira Kh., 2025, A review of the genus Microdera Eschscholtz, 1831 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) of Uzbekistan, Zootaxa 5590 (4), pp. 451-480 : 464-466

Microdera globulicollis Ménétriés, 1849

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Microdera globulicollis Ménétriés, 1849: 230 ; Jachontov et al., 1962: 85; Davletshina, 1967: 525; Davletshina et al., 1979: 106.

= Microdera margelanica Kraatz in Heyden, 1882: 81;

= Microdera extabesa Skopin, 1961b: 393 ; Kaszab, 1966: 288; Skopin, 1968: 107, syn. nov.

Type material examined. Type material for M. globulicollis and M. margelanica see in Nabozhenko & Kalashian (2022).

Microdera extabesa ( Fig. 9A, B ): Holotype, ♂ ( ZIN): “ Yu. Kizil-Kum, Ayak-Agitma 6.08.1936 N. Skopin leg.” ( Russian Cyrillic ; now: Uzbekistan, Bukhara Region, 40°39ʹN, 64°29ʹE), “ ♂ ” (square), “Holotypus Microdera extabesa N. Skopin, 1960 ”.

Paratypes. 11 specimens ( ZIN): “Golodnaya step Mussa-Kuduk 25.06.1959 leg. A. Andreeva Coll. N. Skopin ” (Russian Cyrillic), “Paratypus Microdera extabesa N. Skopin, 1960 ” ; 1♂ ( ZIN): “Termez 22.09.1938 N. Skopin leg.” (Russian Cyrillic), “ Paratypus Microdera extabesa N. Skopin, 1960 ” ; 5 specimens ( ZIN): “Yu Kyzyl-Kum, Ayak-Agitma, 6.08.1936 N. Skopin leg.” (Cyrillic Russian label), “ Paratypus Microdera extabesa N. Skopin, 1960 ” .

Material examined. 4 specimens ( ZIN): Navoiy Region , Kyzylkum desert, Ayakguzhumdy, 21.iii.1961, 13.v.1961 (B.M. Mamaev) ; 1 specimen ( ZIN): Kuldzhuktau , Ayakguzhumdy, 2.iv.1966 (G.S. Medvedev) ; 1 specimen ( ZIN): Navoiy Region , 15 km SSW Tamdy (= Tamdybulak), 2.iv.1966 (G.S. Medvedev) ; 2 specimens ( ZIN): Navoiy Region , Aznek, 70 km W Tamdy (= Tamdybulak), 1.v.1965 (L.V. Arnoldi) ; 2 specimens ( ZIN): Navoiy Region , Kyzylkum, Auminzatau, 10.5.1966 (G.S. Medvedev) ; 2 specimens ( ZIN): Navoiy Region , Kyzylkum, sands 45 km NW Dzhing. [Dzhingildy], 13.06.1965 (L.V. Arnoldi) ; 2 specimens, 40 km W Bukhara, Kyzylkum , 15.v.1966 (G.S. Medvedev) ; 2 specimens ( ZIN): SO Kyzylkum, on clayey soil, 11.vi.1960 (P. Ler) ; 1 specimen ( ZIN): Bukhara Region , Karaulbazar, 10.iv.1927 (V.V. Yakhontov) ; 15 specimens ( ZIN): Tashkent Region , Bekabad, 17.v.1966 (N.G. Skopin) ; 1 ♂ ( ZIN): Uzbekistan, Surkhandarya Region , 7 km E Aktash, 37°31ʹ57ʺN / 66°44ʹ09ʺE, h= 450m, 13.04.2024 (M.V. and S.V. Nabozhenko, N.Kh. and Kh.U. Bekchanov, D.A. Yavkachev) .

Notes. We examined all type series of M. extabesa and didn’t find any differences with M. globulicollis . Skopin mentioned some differences in the shape of “thorax” in M. extabesa and M. globulicollis and more rounded postero-lateral corners of pronotum in M. extabesa . We did not find these differences. The holotype of M. extabesa completely corresponds to the lectotype of M. globulicollis from Turkmenistan. So the following new synonymy is established: Microdera globulicollis Ménétriés, 1849 = Microdera extabesa Skopin, 1961: 393 , syn. nov.

We don’t know, which species mentioned Pirnazarov (1973) under the name “ Microdera globulicollis ” for Karakalpakstan ( Uzbekistan).

Distribution. Turkmenistan (Mashhad-i Misrian, foothills of Kopetdag, south Turkmenistan, Badkhyz, Kugitangtau), Uzbekistan (Kyzylkum desert, Kattakum desert, Golodnaya (Hungry) steppe, Fergana valley), Kazakhstan (Eastern Kyzylkum, Josaly, Yanykurgan, Turkestan) (ZIN collection).

Figures

FIGURE 9. Microdera globulicollis, male, habitus, details. A = holotype of M. extabesa (junior synonym); B = ditto, labels; C–E = male from foothills of Kugitang (Uzbekistan,Aktash); C = habitus; D = epistome; E = head and pronotum; F = abdominal ventrite 5, strictly horizontally; G = apex of abdominal ventrite 5, posterior view.

FIGURE 10. Microdera globulicollis, male, details. A = pro- and mesothorax laterally (arrow shows intercoxal process of mesoventrite); B = protarsus; C = metatarsus dorsally; D = metatibia, extensor side; E = tegmen ventrally; F = median lobe laterally; G = median lobe dorsally; H = spiculum gastrale.