Miopristis stigma
Creators
- 1. Department of Zoology, Fisheries, Hydrobiology and Apiculture, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, CZ- 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
Description
Miopristis stigma (Thunberg, 1821)
Fig. 8
Clythra stigma Thunberg, 1821: 184 (original description).
Clythra stigma – Forsberg 1821: 276 (redescription).
Miopristis stigma – Gemminger & Harold 1874: 3278 (catalogue).
Miopristis (Miopristis) stigma – Jacoby & Clavareau 1906: 12 (catalogue). — Clavareau 1913: 29 (catalogue).
Type locality
“Cap” [= from the publication title].
Material examined
Holotype
SOUTH AFRICA • ♂; “Uppsala Univ. Zool. Mus. / Thunbergsaml. nr. 8190 / Clythra stigma / Cap. TYP [r, p] // stigma. / Cap. 6 [box label, w, h]”; UUZM.
Distribution
RSA.
Comments
Only the holotype is known, whose head and pronotum are broken and artificially stuck back together. The generic assignment was not clearly understood by the subsequent authors.While Lacordaire (1848) mentioned Clythra stigma among the species unknown to him, Gemminger & Harold (1874) classified it in Miopristis. Jacoby & Clavareau (1906) and Clavareau (1913) followed the assignment to Miopristis with doubts.
The examination of the holotype showed very densely pubescent propleura. Based on the keys to identification of clytrine genera with pubescent propleurae (Medvedev 1970, 1989a), Clythra stigma should be classified in Protoclytra. Here I have to point out that there is evident confusion in the definition of the genera Miopristis and Protoclytra. Medvedev (1970, 1989a) did not include Miopristis in his keys to clytrine genera with pubescent propleurae, which could lead to the assumption that species of Miopristis have the propleura bare. However, the type species Miopristis lepida (Lacordaire, 1848) has the propleura pubescent, which I verified from the type specimen deposited in the BMNH. Also Medvedev (1993b, 1993c) himself mentioned pubescent propleura in the descriptions of Miopristis namaquensis Medvedev, 1993 and Miopristis dimorphus Medvedev, 1993. As the generic relationships between Miopristis and Protoclytra still require further studies, I tentatively leave Clythra stigma in Miopristis.
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Linked records
Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- UUZM
- Family
- Chrysomelidae
- Genus
- Miopristis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Thunberg
- Species
- stigma
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Miopristis stigma (Thunberg, 1821) sec. Bezděk, 2019
References
- Thunberg C. P. 1821. Coleoptera Capensia, antennis fusiformibus. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis 8: 157 - 193.
- Gemminger M. & Harold B. 1874. Catalogus Coleopterorum hucusque descriptorum synonymicus et systematicus. Tom. XI. Chrysomelidae (Pars I.). G. Beck, Munich. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9089
- Jacoby M. & Clavareau H. 1906. Coleoptera Phytophaga, Fam. Chrysomelidae, Subfam. Clytrinae. In: Wytsman P. (ed) Genera Insectorum. Fasc. 49. V. Verteneuil & L. Desmet, Brussels.
- Clavareau H. 1913. Chrysomelidae: 5. Megascelinae, 6. Megalopodinae, 7. Clytrinae, 8. Cryptocephalinae, 9. Chlamydinae, 10. Lamprosominae. In: Schenkling S. (ed.) Coleopterorum Catalogus. Pars 53. W. Junk, Berlin.
- Lacordaire J. T. 1848. Monographie des coleopteres subpentameres de la famille des phytophages. Tome second. Memoires de la Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege 5: i-vi + 1 - 890.
- Medvedev L. N. 1970. A contribution to the knowledge of African and Oriental Clytrinae (Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae). Entomologische Arbeiten aus dem Museum G. Frey 21: 184 - 195.
- Medvedev L. N. 1989 a. A new genus of Clytrinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from South Africa. Entomologica Basiliensia 13: 411 - 415.
- Medvedev L. N. 1993 b. New data on South African Clytrinae (Coleoptera Chrysomelidae). Russian Entomological Journal 1 (2) (for 1992): 17 - 24.
- Medvedev L. N. 1993 c. On several new Clytrinae (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae) from Namibia and Angola. Russian Entomological Journal 2 (2): 3 - 7.
- Medvedev L. N. 1993 a. Clytrinae of Southern Africa (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 40: 369 - 389. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 19930400219