Microhoria terminata var. latebrunnea (Pic, 1901) Telnov, Dmitry & Degiovanni, Augusto, 2024

Telnov, Dmitry & Degiovanni, Augusto, 2024, Notes On Some Greek Microhoria Chevrolat, 1877 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Anthicidae) With New Descriptions And Synonymy, Acta Biologica Universitatis Daugavpiliensis 24 (1), pp. 81-127 : 107-110

Microhoria pinicola ( Reitter, 1889) ( Figs. 23‒24 )

= Microhoria terminata var. latebrunnea (Pic, 1901) syn. nov.

= Microhoria testacea (Pic, 1941)

= Microhoria feroni Bonadona, 1960

Anthicus pinicola ‒ Reitter 1889: 258 (description: ‘ Aegina … Morea … Attica’, all Greece); Pic 1894: 55 (checklist; general distribution: ‘Morée’ (continental Greece)); Pic 1911: 67 (checklist; general distribution: Greece); Uhmann 1985: 196 (record: ‘Phalerum Bay’, continental Greece).

‘ Anthicus (Eonius) pinicola ’ – Heyden et al. 1891: 267 (checklist; general distribution: Greece).

Microhoria pinicola ‒ Telnov 1998: 170 (informal new combination, record: ‘ Hellas, Lakonia, 7 km SW Monemvasia’); Chandler et al. 2008: 442 (checklist; general distribution: Greece); Telnov 2020a: 612 (checklist; general distribution: Greece).

‘ Anthicus terminatus v. latebrunneus ’ – Pic 1901c: 150‒151 (description: Greece).

Anthicus nectarinus var. latebrunneus – Krekich-Strassoldo 1911: 76 (checklist, distribution: ‘Graecia’).

‘ Anthicus nectarinus v. n. testaceus ’ – Pic 1941b: 5 (description: ‘? Brésil’ [apparently not a Brazilian taxon]).

Microhoria testacea – Chandler et al. 2008: 441 (informal new combination, checklist, as synonym of M. nectarina (Panzer, 1794)) ; Telnov 2020a: 612 (checklist, as synonym of M. pinicola ); Telnov 2020b: 15 (synonymy).

‘ Microhoria (Platyhoria) feroni ’ – Bonadona 1960: (description: ‘Ile d’Eubée, à Roviès’, Euboea / Evia Island, Greece).

Microhoria feroni – Chandler et al. 2008: 440 (checklist; distribution: Greece); Telnov 2020a: 612 (checklist, as synonym of M. pinicola ); Telnov 2020b: 15 (synonymy).

See Telnov (2022: 291) for references of ‘var. latebrunneus ’.

Type material examined M. testacea . 1♀ syntype BMNH: Piraeus [handwritten] // A. testaceus Pic nsp. [handwritten] .

New material examined. 8♂ ♀ BMNH : Phalerum Bay . 8- ’02. M, C. [printed] // G.C.Champion Coll. B.M. 1927‒409. [printed] ; 1 specimen MZH : Pendeli pr. Athen 29.7.1939 P.H.Lindberg [printed] ; 2♂ ADC : GREECE Etolia Astakos wine trap 22.6- 6.7.2001 Leg. A. Sette [printed] ; 1♂ ADC : GRECIA TESSAGLIA TRIKALA: PILI 20.06.08 FANCELLO [printed] ; 9♂ ADC : CORFÚ: Pelekitó , 21.VI.2010 Leg. M. Pavesi [printed] ; 8♂ ADC ( Fig. 23 ) : GRECIA: Eubea centro Or. Pili, 100m, wine trapp. 20.VI-16.VII.2016 A. Sette leg. [printed] ; 1 specimen MEC : GR,SO-Peloponnes Monemvasia , Ag. Mamma 29.6.2018 leg. Manfred Egger [printed] ; 2 specimens MEC :

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GR,SO-Peloponnes Monemvasia Umgebung, 30.6.2018 leg. Manfred Egger [printed]; 12 specimens MEC & DTC: GR,SO-Peloponnes Monemvasia LF, 1.7.2018 leg. Manfred Egger [printed] ; 20 specimens MEC & DTC: GR,SO-Peloponnes Monemvasia LF, 2.7.2018 leg. Manfred Egger [printed] ; 1♂ MZH: Finland Ab: Naantali, Ruotsalainen Ykj: 670710: 321249 Euref: 21244: 67042914. 8. 2020 Karl & Timo Nupponen leg. [printed] .

Synonym. See Telnov (2022: 291) for the taxonomic history and morphology of ‘var. latebrunneus ’. Anthicus terminatus var. latebrunneus , hitherto considered a junior synonym of Microhoria terminata , differs from the latter as explained by Telnov (2022: 293‒294). Additionally, the elytron apex is broadly rounded in the studied female syntype of var. latebrunneus but dorsally impressed and somewhat produced posteriad (subangulate), deflected in females of M. terminata . The studied syntype, however, displays evident similarities in morphological appearance with M. pinicola such as the shape of the head, pronotum, and elytra, the punctures of dorsal forebody and elytra, the density and shape of the elytral vestiture, the shape of the female elytral apex, and, finally, the uniformly pale rufous body. We herewith consider Anthicus terminatus var. latebrunneus conspecific with M. pinicola , a species widespread and not uncommon in the continental parts of Greece, and a new synonym is introduced. To confirm the proposed taxonomic change male terminalia

108 and genitalia to be compared, but no male syntypes were allocated for var. latebrunneus (see Telnov 2022).

Supplementary description. Shape and proportions of head and pronotum and density of dorsal punctures on forebody vary in this species. Aedeagus elongate, variable in shape, tegmen with an obtuse lateral denticle and apical hook ( Fig. 24 ).

Ecology. Some specimens sampled in wine traps and attracted to light (active flyer, nocturnal?). The yet only known North European specimen of M. pinicola has been collected in a flight interception trap installed in a mixed forest (hollow oaks, pine trees, etc.) next to a field (S. Malmberg, pers. comm. 20.05.2024) and this kind of habitat is also characteristic for some other Microhoria , for instance, in Turkey ( Telnov 2022: 302).

Distribution. Greek mainland including the Peloponnese Peninsula but excluding the north, Saronic ( Aegina ) and Ionian islands (Corfu) ( Reitter 1889, Bonadona 1960, Uhmann 1985; Telnov 1998). The surprising record from Finland (see above), clearly outside the species’ range, can be explained if not by an occasional import than by the effect of aerial plankton, when small organisms including insects travel large distances with air currents. For anthicids three similar cases are documented in Europe which can (with some doubt) be referred to the same effect ( Semionenkov & Semjonov 2016, Drumont & Garcia Carrillo 2018, Telnov 2018). The status of M. pinicola in Finland remains unclear.

Chorotype. E-Mediterranean (3.03 EME).

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Figures

Figure 23. Microhoria pinicola (Reitter, 1889), ♂ from Pili, Eubea centro Or., Greece, habitus, dorsal view. A – Habitus; B – Dorsal forebody [not to scale]. Images: A. Degiovanni & D. Telnov.

Figure 24. Microhoria pinicola (Reitter, 1889), aedeagus and its variability. A – ♂ from Etolia, Adtakos, Greece; B – ♂ from Pili, Eubea centro Or., Greece; C – ♂ from Trikala: Pili, Tessaglia, Greece; D – ♂ from Pelekitó, Corfu, Greece [not to scale]. Images: A. Degiovanni & D. Telnov.