Monolepta nigropicta Laboissière, 1938
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Monolepta nigropicta Laboissière, 1938 |
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Monolepta nigropicta Laboissière, 1938
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Monolepta nigropicta Laboissière, 1938: 146 .
Type material. Lectotype. Female, “Da Sancurar agli Amarr, IV.1896, Bottego leg.” ( ZMUH); paralectotype: 1 female, “Neghelli, Marzo, 1937; Miss. E. Zavattari nei Borana A. O. I.” ( MCST). This designation. Laboissière mentioned two specimens in his original description without designation of a holotype “Borana Galla: Sancurar (Bottego 1896), un exemplaire, ma collection; Neghelli, un exemplaire, Zavattari leg. ( MCST)“. Type locality: Ethiopia, Neghelli, 5.30N / 39.05E. GoogleMaps
Further material examined. Ethiopia. 1 ex., Ethiopie , Sidamo Prov., 14/ 32 km E of Neghelli, 1600 m, V.1974, R. O. S. Clarke leg. ( MRAC) .
Redescription Total length. 4.60–5.40 mm (mean: 4.90 mm; n = 3).
Head. Yellow, vertex contrasting black ( Fig. 6A View Fig ), an- tenna yellow, only terminal antennomere slightly darker, antennomeres slender, length of antennomeres two to three 0.83–0.86 (mean: 0.84), length of antennomeres three to four 0.42–0.50 (mean: 0.45).
Thorax. Prothorax yellow, broad, pronotal width 1.50– 1.65 mm (mean: 1.58 mm), pronotal length to width 0.58–0.62 (mean: 0.60), very finely punctured, shining. Elytra predominately yellow, with narrow black base, an- terior half of the outer margin, about on ethird along the suture and he elytral tip black ( Fig. 6A View Fig ). Elytral length 3.60–4.20 mm (mean: 3.83 mm), width of both elytra 2.30–2.50 mm (mean: 2.40 mm), elytra slender, width of both elytra to length of elytron 0.62–0.68 (mean: 0.63). Scutellum brown to black. Meso- and metathorax, and legs yellowd.
Abdomen. Yellow, analsternite and pygidium black.
Male genitalia. Median lobe broad, slightly narrowed in the apical quarter ( Fig. 6 View Fig Da), apex broad, flat and straight ( Fig. 6 View Fig Db), tectum broad, ventral groove slender ( Fig. 6 View Fig Dc). Lateral endophallic spiculae slender, bifurcate, median spiculae and slender and bent dorsally, ventral spiculae large with one strong hook ( Fig. 6 View Fig Da, Db).
Female genitalia. Spermatheca with small spherical nodulus, slender middle part and long cornu (Fig. E). Dorsal part of bursa sclerites broad, spiny (Fig. F), ventral part slender, outer margin finely serrate (Fig. G).
Diagnosis. In coloration, size and body shape most similar to some specimens of M. cruciata ( Fig. 9 View Fig Ab) and M. nigrocrucita ( Fig. 13 View Fig Ab) but not with completely black outer margins. Shape of aedeagus, with broad and flat apical part very different from both other species with slender and conical apical part ( Figs 9D View Fig , 13D View Fig ). Somewhat similar to small M. euchroma or M. vinosa , but those species with partly red elytral coloration, slightly different aedeagus, and very different shape of spermatheca which is slender and long in M. nigropicta , and
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broad with short middle part in M. vinosa and M. euchroma ( Figs 5E View Fig , 16E View Fig ).
Distribution and ecology. Only three specimens are known of this obviously very rare species in Ethiopia ( Fig. 7 View Fig ).
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Monolepta nigropicta Laboissière, 1938
| Wagner, Thomas 2020 |
Monolepta nigropicta Laboissière, 1938: 146
| Laboissiere V 1938: 146 |